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De alchemist

Michael Scott

3.63 AVERAGE

raedaisy_'s review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging informative mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

rebeccabadger's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

aves42's review against another edition

2.5

slow-paced

chaylilee's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

inkiestinkie's review against another edition

3.5

Good writing. Good story. I like all of the historical myths, legends, and events that are tied into it. Really cool concept.

Josh however is really annoying and him like debating joining Dee is crazy. Like it took no time for him to question them and debate dipping on his sister. And him being so concerned ab her having diff experiences is crazy. He does not know how to be his own person and needs to work on that.

irregularrogue's review against another edition

3.0

It was meh.

Probably because our two main characters were so freaking boring. They were the unseasoned chicken of protagonists. The only really good thing I could say about them is since they're brother and sister there was no suffering of a romance. At least in this installment.

I think the true trouble here is the trouble I find with a lot of books that contain characters that are immortal or long lived. It's that the author's cant seem to help themselves with taking liberties with historical figures or inserting their characters into legends. Even the villains. Like he can't just have been a spy ages ago. He has to be the one who originally used the code name 007. He can't just have a cool sword he has to have Excalibur. It feels like a poor substitution for developing and writing an engaging character.

That and it feels like I couldn't be creative on my own so let me just borrow a bunch of better written things and apply it to my narrative.

That said it wasn't terrible it just wasn't very engaging. Everything about it felt extremely flat. Pernelle was the only interesting character in the book and we didn't really get to spend much time with her at all. Instead we got stuck with the boring twin teenagers who feel like they were written by someone who was never a teenager and never interacted with teenagers in their life.