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(This is going to be a spoiler-free review, as the plot will make little sense to anyone not already immersed in the series, and those who are immersed should not have their reading-pleasure infringed upon.)

If you are already a fan of Michael Scott's The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series, there's no need to encourage you to read THE ENCHANTRESS. You've been ready to fall upon this, the sixth and last installment, like a bolt of lightening. If you are not already a fan, you must not start here. That would be like wandering into the last ten minutes of The Sixth Sense or reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows first. You'll spoil everything. Go, pick up a copy of The Alchemyst, and thank me later. Six books later.

If you're a long-standing fan, however, and you've been nervously biting your nails, dreading the possibility that this series will go out with a whimper rather than a bang, fear not. THE ENCHANTRESS is complex, engrossing, and satisfying. It brought all the plot threads together and tied them off neatly, but not so tidily that it felt contrived.

When the ending finally came, I felt a bit rushed, but that is likely because I was unwilling to let this world and people go. It's bad enough when I have to finish one book I loved. To come to the end of a series is like having to move to a foreign country. I miss the characters, I miss their world, I miss my existence among them.

I will miss this world, but not for long, as this last volume invites a return to the beginning, to a richer reading of the whole, discovering all those details which point towards the end.