This book left me with mixed feelings. I love the interspersion of mythology, but I don't like how simple the writing is. Most of the time, I grimaced because the author kept telling me what the characters thought instead of showing me what happened. On the other hand, The author wrote the story for...
A solid three stars for this one. I will admit, when I first started this book, I had no clue that Nicholas Flammel was a real person. I honestly thought he was someone JK Rowling thought up for Harry Potter. So I was a little confused when this book was handed to me. I think my thought process was,...
What an interesting concept for a book ... Scott has woven fiction and actual historically significant items, people and places. He has knocked this one out of the park!I'm not ashamed to say that what initially drew me to this book was the fascinating cover. Beautiful!! But the story inside was eve...
This book was terrible. I got a little less than half way through before giving up. The prose was obviously intended for a very young audience in a way that has no appeal to anyone over the age of maybe 12. The juvenile narrative and dialogue was written in such a way that there was an overtly impli...
My Review: I made the mistake of reading opinions of others before reading this and in doing so my judgement of this book was a bit clouded as I read. I would hope you decided to read this book without other peoples opinions involved. Removing what others had to say, I found this book flowed well an...
If you're looking for another book like Percy Jackson or The Red Pyramid or the 39 Clues, you'll probably like this one. Unless you're like me and although you LIKE those books, you don't really care to read the same books over and over and over. Reading "The Alchemyst" felt like I was re-reading ...
I had fun reading The Alchemyst, but it's far from my favorite fantasy story. Saying "all myth is based in fact", and then pulling characters and devices from all over the storybook map - historical-and-mentioned-in-Harry-Potter characters like Flamel, the Witch of Endor (Book of Samuel in Hebrew S...
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