Review: Very short and very good!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 17, 2011
I approached this very short work from a bit of a different perspective than many.  I purchased the Nicholas Flamel books for my son who has enjoyed them immensely, and I was very happy to have run across this short to buy for him (he has recently started using my Kindle for reading so this works out).  I have been planning on reading the series too, but haven't yet, but I decided to give this a try to see how it is as a stand alone and how I like the author's style myself.In brief, I thought it was great!  Like many have mentioned it's short as you could probably imagine by the file size and the price (basically it's a little over 200 locations in Kindle-speak, and as this is an eBook only so far, those reading should have an idea just how short that is).  Despite such a short format the story really worked well.  Enough background information was given for the context, yet enough tantalizing bits were left to engage the curiosity.  The descriptions were fantastic and I was left quite breathless at the end.  I, like another reviewer did, call it 'too short'.  But in my case this is only in the sense, of 'I really liked this and want more!'.Of course, now I have bumped this series WAY up on my To Be Read pile...which is quite a testament to the quality of the short story presented.Highly Recommended (and I imagine those who have read the balance of the series will actually call this A Must Read).JTG