Book review: The Magician by Michael Scott

Lately I have been delving into this amazing book: The Magician - The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel.

This is the sequel to The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel.
I read this book a while back and loved it so much.

A combination of historical characters such as nicholas flamel, joan of arc, dr. john dee, etc. Excalibur sword, king arthur. Shadowrealms, vampires and magical and mystical creatures and monsters. Auras and magic, and also the global warming issues. Set in the world we know today with email, the internet, blogs, etc.

Basically nicholas flamel and his wife perennelle live in san francisco and own two separate shops, nicholas manages the book store and his wife a coffee shop. Two regular teens find a job at these places, two twins, the boy works at the book store and the girl at hte coffee shop across the street.

Without knowing they are the twins are the twins of a prophecy, nicholas discovers it and tells the twins, apparently they have the pure silver and gold auras and can change things and are set to do great things from the codec (book) that nicholas flamel has in his possession.

This book attracts a lot of attention as there is a formula for staying immortal that nicholas and perennelle need to not die and a lot more with this book one can possess the powers to cure disease, solve many of todays problems with the world but in the wrong hands can destroy. It attracts the attention of john dee who wants the book for the wrong reasons. The twins being the twins of the prophecy are the one who should have this book to use it for good. The books is stolen except for the two last pages, the most important pages. And a chase for nicholas, perennelle, and the twins as well as nicholas friend from and underworld shadowrealm scatach (a vampire) begins. they take leygate to paris nicholas and perennelle's home city, meanwhile the girl's powers were awakened but not the boys they go to paris in the hope that one of nicholas's friend could awaken the boy's powers. They are chased becasue john dee wants the last two pages, the most important, of the codec.

And of course using magick and leygates to travel they don't have papers, passport so they have to hide from police as well all in order to protect the last two pages of the codec.

Meanwhile perenelle was captured and her and nicholas are getting weaker and weaker since they couldn't make another batch of the potion to stay immortal, they are aging rather rapidly.

I am not done reading this book entirely but so far it keeps me wanting to read more and more.

I would suggest it to anyone with an interest in historical time and characters, magick, auras, other worlds, mystical and magickal creatures, suspense and anyone who enjoyed the harry potter series quite a bit.