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I was excited to feed my Harry Potter book worm with a spin-off of the series. 'The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel' series is based on J.K Rowling's character of the same name in the Harry Potter books who partners with Dumbeldore. Nicholas Flamel creates the Sorcerer's/Philosopher's stone and he and his wife live to incredible old age--without aging. 'The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel', due to copyright infringements, does not enter the Wizarding World in any way.

Having stated that, I need to stress that the only reason I searched this book out and opened the cover was because of it's tie in with Rowling's tales. I want to be very clear with others that may have the same impression that this work continues to delve into Harry Potter's expanded Wizarding World, that it doesn't.

I've apparently touched a nerve with fans of Scott's work with my review.
I did read the entire series.
I did not love it.
I didn't hate it.
It was okay.

I will mention the impression the author gives of Perenelle's hair having human qualities when she's riled, the tie-in with Yggdrasile, the life tree, that spans different worlds and myths woven within the series, and the various global, magical locations and their connections with lay-lines, have left an impression on me, just not an epic, Harry Potter impression. Which, was what I assumed when I learned the intentional tie-in.


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The Warlock The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel Michael Scott Books Reviews

My 12 year old grandson really enjoyed this series enormously. It is very involved and imaginative. Monsters and magic without terrible bloodshed or dismemberment. I read some of the series and was pleasantly surprised at the level of suspense.
One of the very best books about the mythology of the American West that I have read. Incorporates, and for lack of a better term, deconstructs the OK Corral, Deadwood, the Lincoln County War, the labor strife culminating in the Ludlow Masacre, among others. That may sound dry, but Warlock is also extremely readable and entertaining. Plus, NYRB books have the same, almost fetishistic, aura of quality as Critereon Collection DVDs. Very highly recommended.
Leaden writing, redundancy and slow pace drag down an ambitious and sophisticated novel about the infancy of justice, order, community and morality in the American West. Should you read it? Absolutely. Will you sometimes want to put it down forever? Uh huh. Much better sociology than literature, but still a brave imagining of place and time--with serious kudos for creating western women who are more than cliches and encompassing early labor activism, class and north/south issues as well as cowboy/gunslinger mythology. It took me almost halfway to be hooked, and I got that far out of respect for Pynchon and the NYRB reprint series--but then there was no turning back.
Warlock should be considered an iconic western novel. The characters are complex and realistic. Shane and Riders of the Purple Sage are well known as great novels of the American West. Warlock deserves to be considered with them. Not only is it entertaining, the reader identifies with the complexities of personality. No person is one dimensional; and though there is good and bad in all of us, even the best of us is fatally flawed.
"He realized that there was no need for self examination, no need to question his decisions, no need to reflect upon his guilt, his inadequacy or upon him self at all. There were no decisions to be made any more, for there was only responsibility, and it was a freedom of tremendous scope".
The book is excellent. It is a fascinating story of characters in the 1880s in the West. It is unusual to read about the personalities of people who lived in the west (many of them cowboys) around 1880- and quite interesting. The three main characters- the marshall- Blaisdell; the gambler- Morgan; and the deputy- Gannon are developed in highly interesting detail. I had seen the very fine 1959 movie, starring Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn and Richard Widmark before reading the book; and I was able to picure the three main characters as they appeared in the book. The three stars were all older than their characters in the book, but that did not detract from the story in the book. The author had an unsual way of writing that is a little hard to describe. It is a little dry and in some cases seemed to go into excessive detail, but the strong points dominate these weaknesses. The lead women characters- Ms. Jessie and Ms. Kate (Lily in the film) are quite interesting, and Ms. Jessie is a fair bit different in the film than her dyanamic character in the book.
The character of Gannon's kid brother is well presented, and one can picture the actor (Frank Gorshin) perfectly in the role.
I was excited to feed my Harry Potter book worm with a spin-off of the series. 'The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel' series is based on J.K Rowling's character of the same name in the Harry Potter books who partners with Dumbeldore. Nicholas Flamel creates the Sorcerer's/Philosopher's stone and he and his wife live to incredible old age--without aging. 'The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel', due to copyright infringements, does not enter the Wizarding World in any way.

Having stated that, I need to stress that the only reason I searched this book out and opened the cover was because of it's tie in with Rowling's tales. I want to be very clear with others that may have the same impression that this work continues to delve into Harry Potter's expanded Wizarding World, that it doesn't.

I've apparently touched a nerve with fans of Scott's work with my review.
I did read the entire series.
I did not love it.
I didn't hate it.
It was okay.

I will mention the impression the author gives of Perenelle's hair having human qualities when she's riled, the tie-in with Yggdrasile, the life tree, that spans different worlds and myths woven within the series, and the various global, magical locations and their connections with lay-lines, have left an impression on me, just not an epic, Harry Potter impression. Which, was what I assumed when I learned the intentional tie-in.