If you loved how Sophie and Josh stumble from Nick Fleming’s bookstore into a war between immortals like Hekate and Dr. John Dee, you’ll click with Percy discovering he’s a demigod and diving into Greek myth come alive. Like the Codex-driven scramble in The Alchemyst, Percy’s quest races across the modern world while gods and monsters crash the present. It’s brisk, funny, and lets you meet legendary figures face-to-face—just as you did with Scathach and the Elder creatures.

You enjoyed how San Francisco’s normal streets hid a secret war—bookshops that aren’t really bookshops, shadowrealms grown from Yggdrasill, and Elders lurking behind history. In City of Bones, Clary stumbles into the Shadowhunters’ New York, where demons, warlocks, and ancient feuds bustle just out of sight. It has the same thrill of lifting the veil that Sophie and Josh experience when John Dee blows their cover and the chase spills into our world.

If Nicholas Flamel’s mixture of charm, mystery, and instruction hooked you—especially as he and Scathach usher Sophie toward her awakened power—then Skulduggery’s sharp, deadpan mentorship of Stephanie will hit the spot. Like the flight from Dee after the Codex theft, Skulduggery Pleasant throws its duo into quips, conspiracies, and close calls as they learn fast or get flattened.

Drawn to the Codex tug‑of‑war with John Dee and the way one object can tip the balance between immortals? Here, young magician Nathaniel summons the djinni Bartimaeus to steal the Amulet and finds himself targeted by a terrifying rival. Like the desperate scrambles through Hekate’s shadowrealm, this is clever, tense, and artifact-driven—only with extra bite and a razor-witted narrator.

If the pace of The Alchemyst—from the bookstore attack to the flight to Hekate’s tree and the frantic awakening of Sophie’s powers—kept you up past midnight, The Storm Runner will do the same. Zane is thrust into a crash course on Mayan gods as monsters close in, secrets explode, and newfound abilities arrive under pressure, much like Sophie’s aura training on the run.