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title: "The Alchemyst (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel)"
description: "I decided I needed some inspiration to keep posting on this blog.  So I am going to start crossposting my book reviews that I do over at http://www.goodreads.com.  If you also use Goodreads let me kno..."
url: https://bookwi.se/the-alchemyst-the-secrets-of-the-immortal-nicholas-flamel/
date: 2009-05-17
modified: 2009-05-17
author: "Adam Shields"
categories: ["Book Reviews"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# The Alchemyst (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel)

I decided I needed some inspiration to keep posting on this blog.  So I am going to start crossposting my book reviews that I do over at http://www.goodreads.com.  If you also use Goodreads let me know and I will follow you there.  I am not going back and posting old book reviews, just new ones.  Here is the first.

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![](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511BKtz9bCL._SL500_AA266_PIkin3,BottomRight,-18,34_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg)This was a free book from Amazon. I read it and liked it and will probably buy future books. Although the next two are at $9.99 right now, so I may wait until the prices drop.

This is a young adult fantasy book. I have seen it compared to Harry Potter, but I don’t think that is a great comparison. It is two modern kids that help out an man they know and find themselves at the center of a magical battle.

It is a pretty good read, but at the end of the book, you are really just getting started in the story. So I assume it will be about the same quality in the next books.

Review of [book 2 and 3](https://bookwi.se/the-magician-by-michael-scott/), [book 4](https://bookwi.se/the-necromancer-book-4-of-the-secrets-of-the-immortal-nicholas-flamel-by-michael-scott/) and [book 5](https://bookwi.se/warlock-scott/).