The book Soul Stealer is a continuation of the first book Doctor Illuminatus. It continues on with the same characters Sebastian, Tim, and Pips adventures into alchemy. In Doctor Illuminatus, Tim and Pip first started learning about alchemy. In the Soul Stealer Pip and Tim learn a new alchemy tactics like taking advantage of another through their soul and brain.Then using the people being taken over like puppets to follow their masters every order. Martin Booth does a number of things to reveal the problems in the story. He reveals problems too the story when he adds new characters and characterizes them as homeless or dirty. Booth also uses imagery to really put the reader into the scene of the story. The book gets into detail about alchemy and explains the three or four different goals. The goals of alchemy: to turn any metal or object into gold, second to create a homunculus[is a human created from scratch without no soul], and third to find a potion to extend life even further. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in chemistry or science of some sort but others will not like this book very much.
