![]() ![]() That way Nicholas could act appealingly humble while he goes about being a badass. I suppose some people who love candied wish fulfillment might go for this, but even if that’s the intent, another character should write it. Whoa dude, that’s a lot of tooting your own horn. I have been many things in my time: a physician and a cook, a bookseller and a soldier, a teacher of languages and chemistry, both an officer of the law and a thief.īut before all these I was an alchemyst. Let’s look at this one.ĭeath has no claim over me, illness cannot touch me. ![]() It feels like every YA book these days has an epistolary teaser up front. But maybe you could forget that part until after you buy this book?Īlright, Scott, I have your book. Nicolas Flamel may have been a plot point in the first Harry Potter book, but he was a real-life medieval alchemist, so anyone can write about him. ![]() This book has no relationship to Harry Potter. Rowling’s Harry Potter-but did you know he really lived?” * The first sentence of the advertising copy on Amazon is “Nicholas Flamel appeared in J. The book’s full title is The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel. The publisher for The Alchemyst by Michael Scott really wants us to know it features Nicolas Flamel. ![]()
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