LitPick Review
The last day of battle, and Nicholas and Perenelle Flamel are in San Francisco with Niten, a warrior from Japan, and Prometheus, an Elder without a Shadow realm. These four valiants must save the city from the Dark Elders Bastet and Quetzalcoatl and the horde of monsters stored on Alcatraz. With several unlikely allies and insane courage, the Flamels might just die knowing they've won. Meanwhile, on the Isle of Danu Talis, ten thousand years ago, Sophie, Josh, Scathach, Palamedes, Joan of Arc, Saint-Germain, William Shakespeare, Virginia Dare, and Dr. John Dee must fight to keep Isis and Osiris from gaining the throne by trickery, rescue Aten, and complete the prophecy that started this whole business. The gold and silver twins have been found.The two that are one have become the one that is all. Now one must save the world and one must destroy it.
Opinion:
It is the last book of the series. It is a good ending. Not necessarily happy, but good. The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel is one of my favorite series, so of course I chose this book. I believe that every character ended this book as something different than they started. Some objects changed also. Even the four swords of power, Joyeuse for Earth, Excalibur for Ice, Durendal for Air, and Clarent for Fire, changed their form and were united. I really liked the idea of a fifth major power, an element, I suppose, a perfect mixture and balance of the other four - Aether. I doubt that any other person has taken traditional mythology and made it into something so different, so accurate, so realistic. Michael Scott has outdone himself in this marvelous book, the dramatic conclusion to his original mythology series.
