Name: The Enchantress
ISBN: 9780385735353

Michael Scott

"The twins of prophecy have been split. Nicholas Flamel is near death. John Dee has the swords of power. And Danu Talis has yet to fall. The future of the human race lies in the balance--how will the legend end?"--Provided by publisher.

The Enchantress

Yooooo fuck this book (affectionately), I am sobbing! This book largely makes up for many of the things I held against the series. This is how you end a series!! If you're grudgingly reading through the series, please, please, please read it all the way through to make it to this one. Many loose ends tied up and wonderful plot twists. The author genuinely thought all of this out so well. Only qualm is lack of agency for the pair of 15-year-olds (loads of manipulation), but they figure it out on the end. Love that this emphasizes the nuance of people in general and tackles total good vs. total bad.

(Bre)anne✨

TW to be added later

Yooooo fuck this book (affectionately), I am sobbing! This book largely makes up for many of the things I held against the series. This is how you end a series!! If you're grudgingly reading through the series, please, please, please read it all the way through to make it to this one. Many loose ends tied up and wonderful plot twists. The author genuinely thought all of this out so well. Only qualm is lack of agency for the pair of 15-year-olds (loads of manipulation), but they figure it out on the end. Love that this emphasizes the nuance of people in general and tackles total good vs. total bad.

Amazing ending to such an amazing series. Scott has a thing for dramatic endings.

Laura Kehoe

Full review coming soon. But that was such an excellent end to the series! I'm so sad that was the end, though! I could use a few more books!!!!!

Samuël Velinga

** spoiler alert **
           Stories focusing around time travel and different time periods are always in dangerous territory. They either conquer their foes and become amazing or fall and become terrible. Sadly Scott did not deliver and the story failed very hard. The characters were very interesting and the mystery was very intruiging, but the whole time travel loop as the foundation of the story does not work and is very disappointing. I really enjoyed the first three books, but after these the story went down hill.

Jeni Enjaian

When I first started reading this series many years ago, I found it fascinating. I loved how Scott wove in just about every myth imaginable and combined that with actual historical characters while indulging in a little artistic license. 

However, Scott dragged the series out far too long. (I will also admit that almost five years has passed since I read book #5 in the series.) This pushed the narrative past the suspension of disbelief. Everything felt a little too dire and at the same time reeked of deus ex machina. Everything worked out a little too well. Plus, that reveal at the end? It held zero satisfaction. 

Finally, the title of the book is "The Enchantress." Scott never once in the narrative mentions an enchantress. Perenelle is the Sorceress. It's not her. Is that supposed to be Sophie? If so, she gets terrible short shrift in a book with her title on the cover. Is it Aunt Agnes? (I make zero attempt to spell her "real" name.)

I do not recommend this book as it is a completely unsatisfying conclusion to a series which held so much promise.

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Clarice Bartolo

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Samantha Hartwick

The two that are one must become the one that is all. One to save the world, one to destroy it. San Francisco: Nicholas and Perenelle Flamel have one day left to live, and one job left to do. They must defend San Francisco. The monsters gathered on Alcatraz Island have been released and are heading toward the city. If they are not stopped, they will destroy everyone and everything in their path. But even with the help of two of the greatest warriors from history and myth, will the Sorceress and the legendary Alchemyst be able to defend the city? Or is it the beginning of the end of the human race? Danu Talis: Sophie and Josh Newman travelled ten thousand years into the past to Danu Talis when they followed Dr. John Dee and Virginia Dare. And it’s on this legendary island that the battle for the world begins and ends. Scathach, Prometheus, Palamedes, Shakespeare, Saint-Germain, and Joan of Arc are also on the island. And no one is sure what – or who – the twins will be fighting for. Today the battle for Danu Talis will be won or lost. But will the twins of legend stand together? Or will they stand apart – one to save the world and one to destroy it?

The Enchantress

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