Well, Nick (or should I be all hipster and call him Nyck) has a very important book called the Codex that he has been safeguarding for many centuries until a bad guy, with a bunch of otherworldly baddies find Nick and steal the Codex from him. Based on the title of the novel, I don't think I'm giving up state secrets by telling you that old Nicky is really the immortal Alchemyst Nicholas Flamel ( NOTE TO AUTHOR: spelling Alchemyst with a 'y' was really clever and not at all gimmicky or ham-handed). Work at a book store for a mysterious guy named Nick. However, the book avoided the 1 star noose based solely on some crafty ideas and oh so unused potential that I will explore once I briefly explain the plot.which should not take long as we have all seen this tired old movie before.

The plot was derivative, the writing was passable AT BEST and the two teenage main characters annoyed me to the point of causing actual hair loss.

Get that through your bird brain and live life. I liked you better as the Egyptian goddess. It's really selfish of the author to have him ruin crows. Crows are cool so I don't think you should ruin them for me. You're so unimportant I don't remember your actually name. Why the heck did you say yes to Nicholas and 'awake' Sophie? I mean, where is your common sense? Don't you have any wisdom? And I don't really get why you hang out with Nicholas. Still, you're 1,000 years old and still have the maturity level of a teenager. You can go die in a hole and then come back to life and dissolve slowly in a pot of acid and then come back to life again to be slowly and maliciously tortured for eternity You should've never existed in the first place. I would like you if you stopped being you.

Is it just that in those two days that I was extracted from my world and put into yours, siblings and constant fighting and all the things that go with 'brother and sister' was recreated into this perfect world where it's mushy-gushy unconditional brotherly love and nothing else? What I don't get is how you and Sophie never fight. One minute you're an ordinary kid who likes superheroes and doesn't do well in school and then you become this person who has a super computer and uber-nerdtastic knowledge? Whoa, big difference. You could've been a really great kid but apparently, the author just couldn't make up his mind about you.

The alchemyst series in order