Plot spoiler if you haven't read The Alchemist, The Magician, and The Sorceress.
Not for myself, but for those I will leave behind: Perenelle and the twins.
Six days have passed and the twins are back in San Francisco. Joan of Arc and Scathach are lost, and with the help of Palamedes and Shakespeare, Saint-Germain is looking for them. Nicholas and Perenelle are finally reunited.
"For six hundred years we have protected the Codex and kept the Dark Elders off the earth. We will not stop...we have nothing to lose. Instead of running and hiding to protect the book, we should attack," she said fiercely.
"We should take the fight to the Dark Elders."
Josh and Sophie meet Scathach's twin sister, Aoife. Aoife and Scatty haven't spoken in ten thousand years.
Josh and Sophie are still suspicious of Nicholas and Perenelle.
"What do we do, sis? I don't trust Flamel."
"Neither do I," she admitted.
The twins basically have three choices. One, fight with the Flamels. Two, fight with Dee. Three, do nothing. Josh learns the Magic of Fire from Prometheus.
John Dee's failures have upset the Dark Elders, and he has been marked "utlaga." But the Codex is still in his possession in San Francisco and Virgina Dare joins Dee's fight.
"No. I've decided to keep it."
"Keep it!" Virginia's raised voice made some of the late-night tourists turn to look. She lowered her voice to a hoarse whisper. "What for?"
Dee grinned. "I am going to use it take control of this earth myself."
Dee plans to raise the Mother of All the Gods from the dead, but he needs someone with a pure gold aura. He offers to train Josh in necromancy which could divide Josh and Sophie forever.
The man with the hook, who sold Flamel the Codex and who told Perenelle her future, appears. He is called Marethyu, or Death, and he wants to take them back to the Isle of Danu Talis, before it's destroyed.
The saga continues in The Necromancer. Machiavelli and Billy the Kid have been ordered to release the monsters on Alcatraz. Nicholas and Perenelle are aging quickly and they aren't any closer to the Codex and the recipe for immortality. Fascinating immortals and Elders join the journey, such as Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, Quetzalcoatl, Niten (my favorite - the greatest swordsman in the world), Prometheus, Aten (Machiavelli's master), Zephaniah (the Witch of Endor), and Palamedes' master, Tammuz. I love the cover of the book with the Aztec symbol and the skull. True fans of this series will want to stick with it to see how it ends, but this one ends with a severe cliff-hanger!
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Rating: 10 out of 10 stars
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