  | Full Text Reviews: Booklist - 07/01/2012 *Starred Review* It’s the end of the world—well, actually two worlds: Earth and Danu Talis. Nicholas Flamel and his beloved wife, Perenelle, are making a final stand to save San Francisco from an attack of monsters large and small, launched from Alcatraz Island by Quetzalcoatl. Twins Josh (Gold) and Sophie (Silver) are being staged to take power from Aten and become rulers of an overthrown Danu Talis 10,000 years earlier. It’s a classic duel to the death, with author Scott making a valiant, and for the most part successful, attempt at tying up the myriad story lines from the other five books in the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series. Fantastical, mythological, and historical figures reappear across the pages as good and evil face off, often to the death and with unpredictable results. Scott’s skill at creating complex story lines and detailed, imaginative worlds is on full display. He fully fleshes out his main characters in their final roles, realistically and sometimes surprisingly melding their lives, their deaths, and their futures. This is a powerful and tidy conclusion to a series that has always promised a resolution to the Codex of Abraham the Mage’s prophecy: “The two that are one must become the one that is all. One to save the world, one to destroy it.” - Copyright 2012 Booklist. Loading...
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