The Death of Joan of Arc (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel)

by Michael Scott

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Now the problem with novellas is that some of them can be long, a collection of stories or it can be way too short like the bummer of a novella in the Great Library Series I read last year. This one unfortunately is way too short, but thankfully that didn’t stop it from being completely boring. One of my favourite characters in the series is Scathach and I was very excited to read about any of her previous adventures, this one in particular though was actually mentioned multiple times in the series ever sense Joan was introduced so while I was hoping for something new, it wasn’t exactly a bad read.

For one it’s extremely short so for a change of pace, it works very well before moving on to another book or a completely different series like I usually do in my readings. The more interesting thing here though, was that this story was told from the perspective of a new individual who saw the rescue, and it does nothing but reemphasizes how much of a threat Scathatch actually is. We see enough evidence of that in the series, but I guess I’m the type of person who enjoys seeing more displays of any spoken about abilities.

I did hope that we might expand to how she turned Joan, but I guess what we got served it’s purpose, even though it wasn’t enough to satisfy me at all.

Final rate: 3/5