A Google user
The fifth installment of Scott's fantastic series of mythological and historical inter-fusion could not have come with a better background color for the cover, GOLD! Because that's what this book is! This extremely fast paced title will have you flipping page after page, and before you know it you've polished off the whole thing. And isn't that what a good book is all about? Keeping your hands glued to the covers?
Continuing the story of teenagers Josh and Sophie Newman, The Warlock follows the siblings as their paths part ways and they find themselves further and further from each other. Nicholas and Perrenelle Flamel have the odds stacked against them, as they are literally fighting for their lives. The hodgepodge grouping that has stepped back in time to the island nation of Danu Talis, led by the mysterious hook-handed figure of Death, battles against insurmountable foes. The God of War Mars Ultor is awakened, Billy the Kid and Machiavelli struggle with releasing the cache of monsters, Dee and Dare continue to corrupt Josh, and Sophie finds out just who her Aunt Agnes really is!
Early in the book we find the ever confusing motives of the Witch of Endor uttering a single line that is true to it's core, "this world is in need of a warlock"! Indeed we were, Mr. Scott... Indeed we were!
A Google user
As a 16 year old boy books like these are hard to find. He does not rip off characters, but portrays them in a different perspective where it sounds almost realistic! People like Nicholas Flamel and Dr. John Dee, Virginia Dare, Macchiaveli (sorry for spelling) and mythical creatures and legends such as Scathatch, Mars Ultor, and Nerus (aka Poseidon) and MANY more! It's one of my favorite author and series of all time I'm currently reading this one but you will have to start from "The Alchemist" for HP fans!
Will
Been reading this series for awhile now and I have to admit it's quite interesting to say the least. With that said, this book was a little drawn out compared to the others. Without spoiling the book, the events were prolonged and unsatisfactory. Stuff I was hoping was happening, didn't....especially the end. Took me awhile to finish this one because of it. I am going to finish the series because I have read a few books before where the last book saved the story so crossing my fingers!