★★★½
GENRE: Fantasy
SUBJECT: saving the world
Setting: San Francisco, CA
CHARACTERS: Josh Newman, Sophie Newman, Perenelle Flamel, Nicolas Flamel
DATE READ: April 26 - May 1
NO. OF PAGES: 517
Off the Shelf (pre-2013)? Source?: Yes, audio stockpile
PLOT:....................................3.00
CHARACTERIZATION:.......3.50
TOPICS:................................3.50
STYLE:...................................3.00
ORIGINALITY:........................4.00
ADDICTIVENESS:...............3.50
OWNERSHIP:.......................3.00
THRESHOLD QUALITY:......3.50
Average.......................................................3.38
The end of the world as we know it could be at hand. Nicolas and Perenelle Flamel have only the energy for their auras to survive one more day and unless help comes from other immortals and the world of Danu Talis, the human world will be destroyed and taken over by monsters.
Throughout this book, the reader is naturally rooting for the good guys, but they have been changing. In the previous installments of this series we have seen the Flamels, the Newman twins, and friends like Joan of Arc and St Germain joining together to fight against the immortals that have been on the wrong side. But now we see that the bad guys understand more fully the devastation that may be at hand and so Machiavelli, Dr. Dee, Virginia Dare and others are now with the Flamels and trying to save the world.
The ending of a series is always somewhat of a letdown because the reader realizes that the characters that have become friends will no longer be there with new adventures, but the adventures that we did share were definitely worth the ride.
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