The Magician: Book 2 (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #2)

by Michael Scott

Ashes to ashes . . .
California: The book of Abraham the Mage holds the secret of eternal life - a secret more dangerous than any one man should possess. Dr. John Dee is two pages away from the knowledge that would bring the Dark Elders into ultimate power - and could mean the destruction of the world as we know it.
Two people stand in his way: Josh and Sophie Newman.
Paris: Time is running out for Nicholas Flamel and his wife Perenelle. Every day they spend without the book, they age one year: their magic becomes weaker and their bodies more frail. Niccolo Machiavelli, immortal author and celebrated art collector, works for Dee and is in hot pursuit of them - Flamel knows there's no time to lose and Sophie must learn about Fire Magic...
Josh and Sophie are the world's only hope. If they don't turn on each other first.

• ISBN10: 1407044400
• ISBN13: 9781407044408
• Publish Date: 4 September 2008 (first published 5 June 2008)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
• Imprint: RHCB Digital
• Format: eBook (EPUB)
• Pages: 496
• Language: English

Reviews

[Terri M. LeBlanc]

A good continuation of the series.

[wyvernfriend]

The motley group escape to Paris where Sophie deals with power, it's consequences and the memories she has to deal with; Josh deals with jealousy and trust issues and the others deal variously with other immortals trying to kill them all.

Occasionally seemed to drag a little but overall interesting and fun and pretty well done, I like how the various immortals interweave and I look forward to the next book in the series to see how Josh fares with power!