Excellent Book. My son could not put it down. He told me that he wants to keep reading, just to find out what happens next. All of the books in this series are great!

This book, as always, was great. We love the Charlie Bone series. The audio is great for the car, or for following along for younger kids. I highly recommend anything by Jenny Nimmo!

another story about a boy whom is magic and doesn't know it and goes to a school for magical kids. still a good story for kids that want to read more of the same.

In the fifth installment of the Children of the Red King series, Charlie Bone is approaching the end of his task: finding his father. However, many shocks await him and readers, including the surprising identity of Miss Chrystal, the return of the Red King painting's shadow, and Joshua Tilpin's origins, to name a few. An excellent read, especially for those who would like their eyebrows raised about a hundred times (every time they read a new surprise). Although this book is somewhat inferior to some of the others in plot( i.e. Midnight for Charlie Bone), it more than makes up for this in the way Jenny Nimmo packs action into its ink.

I am a big Harry Potter fan, and although there are many differences between the series I loved the idea of magic. The book contains an interesting plot as do all of the Charlie Bone books (this one being the last in the series I'm figuring from how the book ends). The reading was excellent at the beginning, bringing the reader back into the life of Charlie and his evil aunts. All the animals begin to go missing and a girl in a yellow rain coat appears and tells him that something has been released. The animals have a better sense to this then human and so they ran away to the little girl's cottage. Charlie and his friends soon discover who this thing is, and that he is up to no good. However the wizard was so however that Charlie couldn't do it alone, he needs to find where the red king is. At that ladies and gentlemen is where the story goes down hill. The story is rushed, to the families without anymore twists or turns. I was happy that the story ends happily but not that it took the author a chapter to rap up a story that took 4 books to get into.

I would recommend this book to anyone who has read the other Charlie Bone books because I agree that if you have read a story this long why not read the final book no matter how rushed in complication it is. However I would advise you go to the library and read it, it's not worth wasting your money on buy it. (This coming from a 17 year olds point of view, if you or the child is younger you must disagree, maybe a speedy ending is what you like). However if you do want to read this book again, read it before you buy it!