The Flash: Hocus Pocus: (The Flash Book 1)

Of all the Arrowverse shows, The Flash is my favourite (despite suffering from a somewhat-average third season). So I was keen to check out this new tie-in novel. Long-story cut-short, it's AMAZING. Absolutely essential for all Flash fans!Barry Lyga immediately scores high-points for his enticing premise; what if Barry Allen never created Flashpoint? Here in this timeline, Barry stopped himself from making that fateful decision...and the turn his life is about to take...Well, what's the lesser of two evils?This hardback novel is beautiful, from Cesar Moreno's beautiful illustration, to the stylized page-numbering & chapter headings to Lyga's prose. He captures the world of Barry Allen perfectly, and also writes a perfect antagonist for him in the form of Hocus Pocus. The villain is powerful, psychological, multi-faceted and genuinely leaves his mark on the Flash's life in a way that makes you think this is an actual episode of the TV Series. It's so easy to visualize, and the writer's prose & pace makes it impossible to put down. There are so many twists & turns in Hocus Pocus that you're left wondering how it can all possibly be resolved. Plus, the promise of a follow-up volume leaves me wanting more.The Flash: Hocus Pocus is truly an exceptional read for fans of the show, the Arrowverse, and superheroes in general. Plus this book also contains a bonus sneak-peek of the Supergirl: Age of Atlantis novel! Highly reccomended!

It's a fantastic book a good alternative timeline

I love the CW DCTV shows and am always excited for new tie-in novels for them. This was an amazing read. This author has captured the show so well, and written it even better in some cases. Setting this in an alternate season 3 where Barry never created Flashpoint was a brilliant move. Anything could happen and readers wouldn't be upset that it was messing with the canon of the show, and as kind of an added bonus it makes things more exciting overall. You don't go into it with the feeling that comes with most tie-in novels, where the story that you're reading, while it takes place in the same universe as a show, it can never actually effect anything about the show. But here you don't quite get that certainty and its a great way to give the reader that feeling of never knowing exactly what's going to happen next. From what I can tell this is set somewhere in what would have been the middle of season 3, a lot of things that happened in season 3 still happened just in a somewhat different way, so it's almost the same but a little bit different. The characters are all amazing, especially Barry, H.R. and Cisco. Cisco's humor is captured perfectly. I loved H.R. on the show and was sad to see him go, so in this wonderful little pocket timeline, we get to see him again and laugh at his absurd kind of genius. The way Barry thinks is written very well, he has to think about a lot of variables when he's being the Flash, and how he handled everything that was going on in his life was spot on as well. And the science, oh the science. The show has always had a science focus and I love that, but here the author goes above and beyond when it comes to the science, it's all involved and explained in a great and understandable way. We get physics, biology, criminology, and we hear a little about when Barry was just a CSI before he was the Flash and the research he did for some of those cases. Sometimes when you're watching the show it's so focused on Barry being the Flash, you can kind of forget what he did before becoming a superhero, so I really loved all of that attention to detail in here and how much it added to the story. And we get a mystery that leads into the next book so I'm looking forward to seeing what happens with that in the future.This book surpassed my expectations with flying colors, it's an amazing tie-in for the Flash and even though it's technically considered a middle grade novel it will be so enjoyable for Flash fans of all ages, I completely recommend it and I'm really looking forward to the next book.

Team Flash faces a new metahuman (or is he...?) right after the events of season 2, except Barry didn't create Flashpoint. It's interesting to see how different their lives would have been without that one huge event.Hocus Pocus feels like an episode of the show. It's well written and gives us details we can't usually see on screen (the characters' thoughts for instance).I recommend to any Flash fan or someone looking for a good superhero novel! You might want to check out "The Haunting of Barry Allen" as well.

This is a prefect addition to my cw the flash collection, the seller is also 5 stars. They included 2 gift cards in my order!!

Review:5 out of 5 gnomesWow, I really loved this book. After reading if you're anything like me you'll be wishing that the author Barry Lyga wrote for The Flash TV show. I adore the show too but his version of flashpoint not happening makes for some strong reading.The author really seems to understand what makes these characters shine. Hocus Pocus is a great villain too. The tone, dialogue, etc… all felt legit to the series and characters.The ending is To Be Continued, so here's hoping the next book is published ASAP. I can’t wait to see what happens next.