Book Two Does Not Disappoint!

The Magician (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel) by Michael Scott.

Hardcover: 496 pages
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers (June 24, 2008)
ISBN-10: 0385733585

Amazon, Product Description
After fleeing Ojai, Nicholas, Sophie, Josh, and Scatty emerge in Paris, the City of Lights. Home for Nicholas Flamel. Only this homecoming is anything but sweet. Perenell is still locked up back in Alcatraz and Paris is teeming with enemies. Nicollo Machiavelli, immortal author and celebrated art collector, is working for Dee. He’s after them, and time is running out for Nicholas and Perenell. For every day spent without the Book of Abraham the Mage, they age one year—their magic becoming weaker and their bodies more frail. For Flamel, the Prophesy is becoming more and more clear.

It’s time for Sophie to learn the second elemental magic: Fire Magic. And there’s only one man who can teach it to her: Flamel’s old student, the Comte de Saint-Germain—alchemist, magician, and rock star. Josh and Sophie Newman are the world’s only hope—if they don’t turn on each other first.

This is book 2 for Michael Scott. I began this series with The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel about a year ago. The book was released in May of 2007. That book started off in present day time in California, where two kids (twins), Josh and Sophie are spoken of in a prophecy, and thus begins an adventure wrapped around magicians and Elders that sets their world upside down.

I totally enjoyed book one and so when book two came along I sent for it. I did a bit of other reading from my tbr pile before I got to it but boy oh boy, once I opened it, it was hard to put down! This book not only picks up where book one ends but it takes of at great speed and doesn't let up !!

The second book of most trilogies tends to disappoint many people, but if you have read The Alchemyst, I can tell you that book 2 will not disappoint! Michael Scott surely did his homework to bring many of these characters to life in a way that makes you unable to put the book down. Characters such as:

John Dee
John Dee (July 13, 1527 – 1608 or 1609) was a noted English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, occultist, and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I. He also devoted much of his life to alchemy, divination, and Hermetic philosophy.

Nicholas Flamel
Nicolas Flamel (traditionally c. 1330 – 1418) was a successful scrivener and manuscript-seller who developed a posthumous reputation as an alchemist due to his reputed work on the Philosopher's Stone.

Scáthach ("Shadowy")
Scathack is a figure in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. She is a legendary Scottish warrior woman and martial arts teacher who trains the legendary Ulster hero Cúchulainn in the arts of combat.

Niccolo Machiavelli
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (May 3, 1469 – June 21, 1527) was an Italian diplomat, political philosopher, musician, poet and playwright.

Count St. Germain
Count of St. Germain (fl. 1710–1784) has been variously described as a courtier, adventurer, charlatan, inventor, alchemist, pianist, violinist and amateur composer, but is best known as a recurring figure in the stories of several strands of occultism – particularly those connected to Theosophy, where he is also referred to as the Master Rakoczi or the Master R and credited with near god-like powers and longevity.

Next up for Michael Scott will be book 3, The Sorceress (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel) I am only sorry it will take another year for that to appear!