Elizabethe W. (elizabethe) reviewed Doctor Illuminatus (The Alchemist's Son) on + 15 more book reviews
Decently written for the most part and an easy read, but I had a hard time really feeling "off in another world" as I desire of books. The Sebastian character was a little flat. Also the first part of the book was very much like another book I read some time ago (where there are two kids, and old house, a suspicious girlfriend, but it has a fairy trapped in a glass bottle thing instead of the Atlantis tie-in) and it was SO similar that I had to check the end to see.
A nice light read, but not a keeper in my opinion.
A nice light read, but not a keeper in my opinion.
Two ferternal twins move into a old house and find that an Alchemists Son had been under a spell until it would be possible to defeat his father's enemy.
When Phillippa and Timothy Ledger move from their city home to an old English country manor, the MTV-generation twins have a hard time believing that the house might be haunted. But when Pip hears knocking deep within its 500-year-old walls, and Tim's knocks are answered back, things start to get scary. Then, when a strange youngster named Sebastian Rawne appears from one of those walls claiming to be the son of the medieval alchemist who built the place, events in the house go from scary to very strange indeed.
