The Magician (Nicholas Flamel, #2)

by Michael Scott

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1,271 ratings, 4.18 average rating, 295 reviews (more data...)

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June 24th 2008 by Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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Hardcover, 461 pages

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Nicholas Flamel, Josh Newman, Sophie Newman

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0385733585 (isbn13: 9780385733588)

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RELEASE DATE: June 24, 2008
After fleeing Ojai, Nicholas, Sophie, Josh, and Scatty emerge in Paris, the City of Lights. Home for Nicholas Flamel....more

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07/13/08

Wendy Laharnar rated it:

recommended to Wendy by: The book was a gift from someone who knows me very well

I love anything to do with Alchemy and having recently spent time in Paris this adventure was doubly entertaining for me.
It's about twin teenagers who find their own magic and deal with the magic that surrounds them in the modern day streets of Paris. The author's wildly imaginative concepts are dark and dangerous. This is fun read for those who are still in touch with the child within.

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03/16/09

Barokah Ruziati rated it:

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Read in March, 2009

Fiuuuhh....seruuu!!! Harus diakui, Michael Scott memang jago bikin pembaca (saya) tersihir dan enggan berhenti sebelum tiba di halaman terakhir. Seperti sedang menonton film saja rasanya. Tadinya sempat 'curiga' kalau sekuel The Alchemyst ini nggak akan sebagus buku pertama, tapi ternyata kecurigaan saya tidak beralasan.

Makin banyak makhluk2 aneh yang dihadirkan, makin banyak legenda dan mitos yang dibangkitkan. Makin banyak pula gadget modern yang berseliweran.

Walaupun ...more

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11/07/08

Megan rated it:

bookshelves: absolute-favorites, fantasy

Read in December, 2008

recommended to Megan by: my Reading teacher
recommends it for: Everyone who likes a good fantasy novel

What a great book! The Magician, the second book in the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series, totally rocked my world!

Josh, Sophie, Nicholas, and Scatty have used the leygate in Ojai to get to Nicholas' home in Paris, France and escape the evil Dr. John Dee. Sophie has already been Awakened by Hekate and has learned the secrets to the magic of Air. She is now ready to master the next elemental magic: fire. But when they arrive in Paris they don't receive a warm welcome. Dee...more

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09/18/08

Humberto Cnca rated it:

Read in September, 2008

My goal for this week was to start a new book. I started a new book. I read pages 1-358. I read a lot. In the book the magician Nicholas Flamel took the 2 twins from the prophecy, Sophie and Josh, to Paris with the help of Scatty. When they arrived Nicholas accidently acctivated an alarm all of Nicoolo's RAID squad had the old church surrounded. Further into the book Nicholas old student Comte de Saint Germain teaches Sophie fire magic. josh doesn't get his powers awakened but, he gets somethin...more My goal for this week was to start a new book. I started a new book. I read pages 1-358. I read a lot. In the book the magician Nicholas Flamel took the 2 twins from the prophecy, Sophie and Josh, to Paris with the help of Scatty. When they arrived Nicholas accidently acctivated an alarm all of Nicoolo's RAID squad had the old church surrounded. Further into the book Nicholas old student Comte de Saint Germain teaches Sophie fire magic. josh doesn't get his powers awakened but, he gets something close to it. He gets the twin sword of Excalibur. He gets the sword of Clarent also known as the sword of fire. My reading goal for next week is to finish the book.

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The book The Magician is very intresting. It filled with magic and action. You get hooked in the very first page. It's the sequal to the book The Alchemyst:Secrets of the immortal Nicholas Flamel. It has 461 pages. The book is very good. Some of the Characters are Nicholas Flamel, Comte de saint Germain, Scatty, Josh Newman, Sophie Newman, Perry Flamel, John Dee,and Nicollo Machavelli. The book takes place in the City of Paris and the catacoboms of Paris. The main plot is that Perry is escapeing Alcatraz, Sophie trainig in the element of fire, and Josh's powers being awakened all at the same time. This book was really amazing.

Nicholas and Perrenelle(perry) Flamel are both Immortals. They both are the guardians of the ancient book called the Codex.They are over 700 hundred years old and only look like there 50 years old. Nicholas is an Alcymest. Perennelle is a sorcerress. Josh and Sophie both are twins and are the twins from the Prophecy with pure silver and gold auras. Scatty is an ancient warrior. She too is an immortal. Comte de saint Germain was once the student of Nicholas Flamel. He is also an immortal. He is skilled in the magic of fire. Dr.John Dee and Nocollo Macheville both are immortals that serve the dark. In the book Sophie learns the magic of fire. Josh without his powers awakened is givin the sword of Clarent to defened himself. Later on he gets his powers awakened. Perennelle has to figure out a way out of Alcatraz without the sphinx knowing. She can't use magic sinnce the sphinx drained so contacts ghosts. Later on with the help of an elder, Perennelle manages to defeat the morgan. More and mre things happen. Read the book if you want to find out what.
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06/15/08

Kathleen rated it:

Read in July, 2008

The only complaint that I have about the Magician is the same complaint that I had about the Alchemyst - where is the next book?

Michael Scott deftly picks up Sophie and Josh's story where the Alchemyst left off. And although it had been over a year since I had read Alchemyst, I was never lost or feeling that I needed to go back and re-read the first book. Mr. Scott did a wonderful job of weaving pieces of book 1 into the Magician.

In this story, Sophie and Josh are in Pa...more

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07/25/08

Tv rated it:

Read in July, 2008

recommended to Tv by: read book one
recommends it for: everybody

I liked the first book very much. This is a direct continuation, and I do believe it is even better. The book is longer which allows for more character development and there are a host of new mythologies and legends woven neatly into the story.

Book one was set in the US, book two takes up the story in France and I think Scott will bring us back to the US for book three.

This is a modern, contemporary fantasy, set very much in the present, with two teens using what every ...more

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10/13/08

Jacob rated it:

This was a great book. The first book flowed right into this one and made it a great read. I love adventure books and this book had suspense at every turn. There were many dead ends that the characters came out of alive and well. The last part kind of shocked me a little. One of my favorite characters was taken prisoner and another one went voulentarily with the bad evil guys. The end came out alright and it ended with me wanting more. It is going to be a hard couple months waiting for th...more

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01/19/09

Darrick rated it:

bookshelves: 2009, audio

Read in January, 2009

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03/26/09

JoJo rated it:

bookshelves: children-books, modern-fiction

Read in March, 2009

Yet another children's fantasy book!!!

I borrowed this book from work and it was the sequel to the first one, the alchemyst. i couldn't borrow the first one b/c we didn't have the hardcover edition and we are only allowed to borrow hard covers. But, I loved it so much I bought the first book to read it.

Its filed under teen fiction, but really its adult escapism. Its quite humorous as famous alchemysts, magicians, politicians, bascially anyone famous from the age of enli...more

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05/14/09

Lance rated it:

bookshelves: have-read

Read in May, 2009

This sequel to The Alchemist is everything that a sequel should be. In many ways it lives up to everything that made me love the first book to begin with. And the cast of characters that gets added -- wow! I have always enjoyed the historical fiction bent, that is, taking actual characters from history and including them into the story. And what better characters could be added than Niccolo Machiavelli and Joan of Arc?

Scott understands the principles of good fiction, crafting ten...more This sequel to The Alchemist is everything that a sequel should be. In many ways it lives up to everything that made me love the first book to begin with. And the cast of characters that gets added -- wow! I have always enjoyed the historical fiction bent, that is, taking actual characters from history and including them into the story. And what better characters could be added than Niccolo Machiavelli and Joan of Arc?

Scott understands the principles of good fiction, crafting tension among his characters, and not just between protagonists and antagonists. The tensions developing between Josh and Sophie -- brother and sister -- are just masterful. And he knows when to end the chapters. It was just delightful to read.

And yet there was just one problem. Maybe it was the writer in me, but I couldn't help but notice how much of the book is actually the narrator telling the reader instead of showing the reader. I remember someone from my writer's group saying that the fantasy genre regularly breaks that sanctified rule of good writing: Show, don't tell. So I kept giving Scott a pass. But that was the problem. I kept having to suspend my disbelief. Shouldn't I only have to do that once, at the very beginning?

I actually waited for this book to come out, and when I saw it in the store, I picked it up. And now it has finally come around on my reading list. I don't regret any of that. And I did enjoy reading the book. Scott understands his material, he has done his homework, and he understands how to craft his story. There is just one thing missing for me. It may be that this is accepted practice within the genre. But I just think that the mark of a truly masterful work of fiction does not allow me to keep removing myself from the story. That did not make the story unenjoyable, and I will be buying and reading the next book. I just think that it could have been more. That being said, I did enjoy the book and would recommend it to anyone wanting a good read.(less)

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05/10/09

Juliette rated it:

Read in May, 2009

I picked this up at the library while looking for another book. I thought it was a stand alone book since nothing on the outside or on the inside of the book really signifies that it is the second book in a series. Reading through the first chapter I didn't get the feeling that I was really missing anything, just the feeling that the events re-capped were too good to have not been written about. When I flipped to the back I realized that I was reading book II. It was too late though, this bo...more

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04/15/09

Afira rated it:

Read in April, 2009

This is a brilliant sequel to the amazing first book! I read half of the book in the two hours my sister spent doing her community service in the library. I didn't even notice that I read that far until my mother called my phone and disrupted the silence of the library with a loud ringtone. It was an embarrassing few seconds. Anyways, this book was just as interesting as the first one, it made my hand twitch to grab the first mouse and Google all these unknown mythical beings.

But Josh ...more

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03/10/09

Julia rated it:

Read in March, 2009

(for ages 10 - adult)

After a series of narrow escapes, Sophie, Josh, Scatty and Nicholas Flamel have escaped to Paris, France. Sophie's latent powers have been awakened, but her brother Josh's have not. Tension between the twins only adds to the strain of escape from the forces of Dr. John Dee.

Now Dee has called in the infamous Machiavelli, also an imortal human beholden to the dark Elders, to help him capture the twins, their legendary powers, and the last two pages ...more

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06/02/09

Ashley rated it:

bookshelves: year-of-2009

I liked it enough that I read this one in a day. I guess that says something! Machiavelli is a newly added historical character, whom I find ammusing. The character quotes his own writings and totally lives up to the cunning leader the real Machiavelli describes in his text, "The Prince." He's really quite the perfect character to add to the mix.

I loved that the 2nd book immediately took off where the 1st book ended, as I dislike having to read the same type of introd...more

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03/30/09

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After fleeing Ojai, Nicholas, Sophie, Josh, and Scatty emerge in Paris, the City of Lights. Home for Nicholas Flamel. Only this homecoming is anything but sweet. Perenell is still locked up back in Alcatraz and Paris is teeming with enemies. Nicolo Machiavelli, immortal author and celebrated art collector, is working for Dee. He’s after them, and time is running out for Nicholas and Perenell. For every day spent without the Book of Abraham the Mage, they age one year—their magic becoming wea...more

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09/23/08

Olivia Anderson rated it:

I'll tell you what. Don't pick up this book because Nicholas Flemmel's name is on the front and that brings you fond memories of Harry Potter. This book seemed like a Dungeons and Dragons fan read the jacket of the Harry Potter books, combined that with the Twilight series, Lord of the Rings and the Golden Compass books. Poorly. Oh, and added Joan of Arc and Machiavelli? WTF?!

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03/22/09

Alexandra rated it:

bookshelves: young-adult

I have never been so thankful to have started this series as I am now. The second book in the Nicholas Flamel series, The Magician, follows immediately on from the first, The Alchemyst. Nick, Scatty and the twins are now in Paris, where they quickly meet their new adversary - Niccolo Machiavelli - a cunning, dangerous and calculating man who may be even more vicious than Dee. And with the both of them working together, they will stop at nothing to get their hands on the twins!

I am co...more

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06/01/09

Lisa rated it:

Read in June, 2009

Kerrreeeeennnnn....

Dari halaman pertama aku dah ppppiiingggiinnn banget tau jalan dan akhir ceritanya. Apakah Sophie berhasil menguasai sihir api? Apakah kekuatan Josh berhasil dibangkitkan? Apakah Scatty berhasil "menjaga" kedua kembar tetap selamat? Bagaimana pengaruh hilangnya codex pada Nicholas? Siapa aja yaa tokoh2 baru? Kok tau2 bisa ada Joan of Arc sih? Lho? Lho? Lha kok tau2 ada tokoh mitos Yunani muncul? Trus.. apakah Dee dan Machiaveli (bener ndak yaa nulisnya?) ...more

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01/04/09

Maureen rated it:

bookshelves: fantasy, series, ya

Read in January, 2009

I give "The Magician" three and 1/2 stars. I liked it better than the first novel in the series (I actually took the time to read it in a few days).

In this story we are introduced to several new characters, some intriguing, and some, not so much... We meet Joan of Ark, her husband the Comte de Saint-Germainthe,a self-made immortal and former student of Flamel, the infamous Nicolo Machiavelli, and even the "God" of War.

I am starting to enjoy the susp...more

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06/24/09

Amanda rated it:

bookshelves: teen

Read in July, 2009

recommends it for: fans of fantasy books like Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Percy Jackson

this is the follow up to The Alchemyst (Nicholas Flamel #1) and most of the story takes place in the city of Paris. The author does a really good job with descriptions, and not just of scenery. This book has a lot more action than the first one and I enjoyed it more. Except for the spiders. Why does everyone have to have spiders? especially big monster sized spiders! ugh. I hate spiders.
It's almost as if the story was just gaining speed with the first book and really took off with this on...more

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