The Alchemyst - The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel - Book 1

Michael Scott

Delacorte Books for Young Readers

2008

400 páginas

13h 20m

ISBN-13: 9780385736008

Twin 15-year-old siblings Sophie and Josh Newman take summer jobs in San Francisco across the street from one another: she at a coffee shop, he at a bookstore owned by Nick and Perry Fleming. In the vey first chapter, armed goons garbed in black with "dead-looking skin and... marble eyes" (actually Golems) storm the bookshop, take Perry hostage and swipe a rare Book (but not before Josh snatches its two most important pages). The stolen volume is the Codex, an ancient text of magical wisdom. Nick Fleming is really Nicholas Flamel, the 14th-century alchemist who could turn base metal into gold, and make a potion that ensures immortality. Sophie and Josh learn that they are mentioned in the Codex's prophecies: "The two that are one will come either to save or to destroy the world." Mayhem ensues, as Irish author Scott draws on a wide knowledge of world mythology to stage a battle between the Dark Elders and their hired gun—Dr. John Dee—against the forces of good, led by Flamel and the twins (Sophie's powers are "awakened" by the goddess Hekate, who'd been living in an elaborate treehouse north of San Francisco). Not only do they need the Codex back to stop Dee and company, but the immortality potion must be brewed afresh every month. Time is running out, literally, for the Flamels. Proceeding at a breakneck pace, and populated by the likes of werewolves and vampires, the novel ends on a precipice, presumably to be picked up in volume two. Ages 12-up. (May)

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5 (Perfeito)

Muito bom no que se propõe.

Este é um excelente livro para os amantes de literatura infanto-juvenil do tipo fantástica.
O autor cria um universo original a partir da mistura e apropriação das diversas mitologias antigas para servir de cenário à sua trama.
O ritmo da narrativa é dinâmico. Toda ação da história se passa em alguns poucos dias. Há muitas cenas de luta e perseguição, por isso é um autêntico livro de aventuras, um prato cheio para os fãs desse estilo. Recomendo!