Book - The Secrets of the Imortal Nicholas Flamel

[Pamela Rosen]

Subject: Book - The Secrets of the Imortal Nicholas Flamel

Tonks_op asked:

Has anyone read this?? Tell me about it. Thanks. Someone told me about the title and that was all. I see it at Amazon. Apparently it is fiction. How much of a real secret can it be?

Sue:
I've been listening to the first 2 books in the series (there are planned to be 6).  It's been enjoyable - lots of action, some interesting characters, ...  It's definitely a kid's book, but I've never let that stop me from enjoying a story before. ;-)

It centers around 15 year old twins from contemporary San Francisco, and their interactions with a bunch of Immortals (including Nicholas and Perennelle Flamel), Elders (including Hecate) and assorted monsters and beings from a wide range of mythololgies from around the world.  I'm finding it fun, though I would not describe it as great literature.  - good escapism, maybe.


Pam:

Borrow them from the library to get a taste.  I really like the reader on the audio books I've gotten out of my local library.

I started this book and then passed it on to my 10 year old son--too juvenile for my tastes. My son took up the mantle on this book and fell in love with it. He gave such an impassioned oral book report to his fifth grade class that the class demanded that the teacher read it to the whole class instead of the book she was planning. So there's something there, for the right audience.  Personally I was more ready to believe in Hecate and Golums than I was at the author's assertations that it was extremely hot on a summer day in San Francisco!

Pam