The Necromancer: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, by Michael Scott

So, still behind, though not as woefully now.  I have this write up, and one other, and then I'm all caught up.  I started The Necromancer (the fourth book in the series) on June 23 and finished it on July 2.  I pretty much started this one immediately after finishing The Sorceress.  These books really don't disappoint.  Yeah, some shit goes down.  It goes down in all of the other books, but it is really starting to go down in this book.

From what I understand, the sixth book in this series tells the tale, and the tale ends with the last book.  So, with The Necromancer being the fourth book in the series, there isn't a whole lot of time to drag things out, so of course shit goes down.

Nicholas, Perenelle, Sophie, and Josh return to San Francisco and temporarily part ways.  The Flamels go check out their book store, and Sophie and Josh go to check in with their Aunt Agnes.  When Josh and Sophie arrive at their Aunt's house, they see someone with her and become suspicious.  The person runs into the house, and Josh makes chase.  The person comes tearing out of the house, past Josh, and approaches the waiting car.  Meanwhile, Sophie is talking to the person waiting in the car - an exact match to Scatty, only it isn't Scatty.  The mysterious person and the Scatty look-alike take Sophie and disappear.  Josh is somewhat distraught and needs to come up with some story to tell his Aunt Agnes as to why Sophie has gone missing.  Obviously, Josh sneaks away from Aunt Agnes and goes to find the Flamels to enlist their help.  Which, obviously, he gets.  They track Sophie to a houseboat in Sausalito and catch up with her there.

Turns out the Scatty look-alike is her twin sister, Aoife.  Her companion is a Japanese man called Niten.  Aoife is looking for Scatty, and thinks Sophie might know where she is.  Unbeknownst to all of them, she is trapped in the Pleistocene era...

Not surprisingly, Dee is screwed...  The Dark Elders basically have a contract out on him to find him (and to do some not so nice things to him) because of his repeated failures at capturing the Flamels and the Twins, and getting the last two pages of the Codex.  Dee, ever the schemer and planner, enlists the help of Virginia Dare, and they make their way back to San Francisco by a leygate.  Of course he has a plan to outwit the Dark Elders and show them who really is in charge.  But this scheme has a lot of twists and turns, and dependencies on others, so there are many variables he and Virgina have to contend with - and yes, there are a lot of variables.

We find out what really happened to Joan of Arc and Scatty.  Yes, they are in the Pleistocene, sort of.  I don't want to give too much away here, but some others join them, and then they leave the Pleistocene to do some other things.  Yes, I'm purposefully being vague here.

Billy the Kid and Machiavelli get into their own trouble, and we meet Billy's Elder Master - that was interesting.  If you know anything about Billy the Kid (fictionally or biographically), you know he is a lunatic and a character (watch Young Guns I, II, or III).  You will understand what I mean.

Josh, Sophie, and the Flamels make their way to a nearby shadowrealm so that Josh can learn the magic of Fire.  Of course, some shit goes down with that...  And with a bunch of other things.

Read this book and the series.  It's awesome!

Next, onto book 5 - The Warlock.  Man, it was GOOD!