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Originally Posted by siraks
the alchemist the secrets of the immortal nicholas flamel ??
what are your thoughts on it?
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Er no, Paulo Coelho's, not Michael Scott's.
Anyway, I can still give you my thoughts on Scott's The Secrets of Immortal Nicholas Flamel. I remember that the series goes like this: The Alchemyst, The Magician, The Sorceress, The Necromancer, and 2 more books I don't read.
The Alchemyst was good! Very readable. Promising. Couldn't put down.
The Magician was so-so. Readable. But I started to feel the boredom, but hoped things would get better in the later books and still bought them, which was a waste of time and money.
The Sorceress was okay. I didn't have an easy time reading it, in fact I might call it "struggling". And just because I read the first 3 books in the series, I continued with the 4th. A HUGE mistake.
The Necromancer? I couldn't finish it. Too boring. If things were new and extraordinary in the first book, which distinguished it from other urban fantasy series, I felt like I was reading a mediocre teenage series with a weak story line.
Nicholas was described as half good half evil, and Perenelle as half strong half weak because she was losing her power, Scathach was like a crazy woman with no precaution and strategy thinking as she should have had with thousands of years of existence. The author told us every five lines how short time they had left, and yet at the 4th book the doom was still nowhere to be seen.
It was like Michael Scott didn't plan anything, he just got new characters popped up, each one proposed to be an incredible archenemy or the greatest warrior and every was beaten so easily.
No need to say I dropped the series where I couldn't continue with the nonsense voyage of the twins. I was so glad I borrowed the 4th book from a friend instead of buying it.
I was truly disappointed in The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel.