Charlie Bone And The Invisible Boy

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Summary: Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy
Review: This is a very good series for anyone who has read the Harry Potter books 10 times. It is the third book about Charlie Bone, a boy who is one of the endowed decendants of the Red King. The book starts with the holidays at Bloor's Academy. The only people that go to Bloor's are children that excell in the arts or the endowed children. In this book, Charlie and his friends have to rescue an invisable boy from the past. His evil Yewbeam aunts try to stop him in any way possible. The only adult that is willing to help him,his Uncle Patton, leaves and returns with a mistereous illness that keeps him out of action and Charlie also has to deal with an escaped sorcerer from a picture. How can he do everything ?

I recomend this book to anyone who enjoys Harry Potter or Lemony Snicket.

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Summary: ...Whatever...
Review: "Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy" is the third book in a series about a boy with a gift that he was born with, but doesn't know about until he is older. His father died 'mysteriously' when he was a baby. When the boy's evil aunts find out that he has a gift, they ship him off to a big boarding school named Hogwarts - - oops, I mean Bloor's Academy.

Plot sounds pretty familiar, eh? That's because it's a watered-down version of Harry Potter with a little bit of extras added in there, just to make it seem different. BUT IT HASN'T FOOLED ME!!! Nimmo has an annoying way of revealing everything before you're supposed to know. I easily predicted what was going to happen at the end before I was even halfway through the book!!! It's the same with all of Nimmo's books, and I would advise Nimmo to either alter her style a lot, or just GIVE UP.

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Summary: The best so far!
Review: In the third installment of the Children of the Red King series, a considerable amount of depth is assed, and Ms. Nimmo stakes out her own territory fiercely. This book was the best yet. Any doubt that additional depth was on its way should have been put to rest upon viewing the genealogical table (which, disappointingly, gave away a few endowments that I wasn't aware of, but it didn't affect the story).

The book is, in its basest form, about a boy who was made invisible by - who else - that wretched disaster of a magician, Ezekiel Bloor, and the efforts of Charlie and his faithful band of do-gooders to rescue him. But there is much more than an invisible boy for Charlie to worry about.

His best friend Benjamin has gone with his parents to Hong Kong, so Charlie has to find a way to keep Runner Bean occupied without Grandma Bone finding out about him. He is introduced to a new girl, Belle, who will be attending the academy, but not through the usual way - that is, not at the academy on the first day of classes. He is introduced to this girl, who is the most beautiful girl in the world and whose eyes constantly change color, at his own home by his horrific aunts and Grandma Bone. The manner of their introduction isn't lost on Charlie, and he is wary of her from the beginning.

His Uncle Patton leaves, mysteriously, speaking of "someone dangerous" that must be stopped from arriving, and Charlie finds himself without the comforting presence of his uncle, who has begun to serve as a very effective buffer between Charlie and the Yewbeams. When his Uncle finally returns, the manner of his return is such that Charlie feels compelled to revisit the painting of Skarpo the Sorcerer in the hopes that Skarpo can help his Uncle, but Charlie succeeds in doing two things: 1) adding mystery to the white wand he "stole" in book 2; and 2) unleashing a very unpleasant series of circumstances not only on Bloor's Academy but also on the people who live in the surrounding town.

As we are finding out, there is more to everything than meets the eye - even if some of it is rather obvious. And the universe is expanding, most satisfactorily. We can see possibilities for more books, and indeed it has been stated in at least one place that this is a projected series of five books.

I have only a few issues with the series in general, and the main one is: why does every book have to be centered around someone that the Bloors and/or Yewbeams are hiding or don't want to be found? And why does it make such little sense (to me at least - it's entirely possible that my tiny brain is missing something rather obvious) that the Bloors and/or Yewbeams don't want these kids found? Especially since this last book was action packed from beginning to end, and between Skarpo, Belle, Uncle Patton, and other minor subplots there was plenty around which to write a book. I hope that the next two books will use a more clever contrivance around which to center the story.

Last, AND THIS IS IMPORTANT FOR THOSE WHO THINK THESE BOOKS ARE POTTER RETREADS, I had an issue with what happened to Charlie at the end regarding a certain wand and a genealogical table (not the one in the beginning of the book).. I won't describe anything more, because I don't want to give the ending anyway. Anyway, this event seemed to be the most glaring Potter similarity yet, and I admit to actually gasping out loud when I read it. I assumed that Ms. Nimmo, as she is no stranger to children's entertainment, *must* have read Potter, and therefore I was dumbfounded, wondering why in the world she would do something like this. However, I wrote to Ms. Nimmo, and she confirmed that she has never read the Potter works, except when her publisher tells her to take a peek at certain parts. Given that she's never read the books, then, all of the Potter similarities are entirely accidental. This was an answer that pleased me greatly, for I have absolutely loved these books.

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Summary: Children of the Red King is the best book series despite hp
Review: Ok, im going to star by saying The Invisible Boy is the best installment yet in the children of the red king series. first of all, don't even look at the summary of the book that amazon.com provided, none of it is true. NONE ZERO ZIP ZILCH! None of it so dont bother reading it. i mean, how could the yewbeam sisters try to marry amy bone unless they're lesbians? overall, this book is an amazing piece of work by jenny nimmo; if she was at bloors, she'd be in the drama department no question. However if you haven't read the first 2 books get reading because there is a slim chance you will understand the third book without reading the first two books. THIS BOOK ROX

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Summary: NEw Charlie BOne
Review: THe Newest Charlie BOne was great like all the others, except for the fact that the editorial review is completely wrong, there is no tree girl and the invisible boy is not Emma's Brother!!!!!!!!!!!! Perhaps we can look for the tree girl in THe Blue Boa which may be another name for the invisible boy, who knows??? Anyway a great site for finding new books (...)at amazon.

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Summary: The Great Book
Review: The other two books I have read in this series, and they are just as good as this one. The whole series is called the children of the red king. It gets it's name because there was a king called the red king, who was a magician. And there are 10 children who are decendants of him who each have different powers and go to Bloor's Academy. Charlie Bone's power is that he can hear photographs and can sometimes "travel" into them.
What happens in this book is Charlie Bone and Emma Tolly {another decendant of the red king} find this invisible boy in the attics of Bloor's Acedamy. But there are many obsticles to saving the invisible boy Ollie Sparks, which include the powerful shapeshifter Yolanda Yewbeam who has taken the shape of the pretty girl Belle Donner, and a magician who wreaks havoc. And unfortunately, Charlie is blamed!!
I definately recommend this book to any fan of Harry Potter books and anyone who likes a good book.

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Summary: A Great Book!
Review: the third book in the Children Of The Red King series is much better than #1 or #2. if you like jenny nimmo, i suggest reading Griffin's Castle, one of her older books. it is equally great!

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Summary: Stellar!!
Review: The third in the Children of the Red King series... Truly outdoes the first two... Charlie Bone faces many new challenges including helping an invisible boy.. coping with a very deceptive "young and pretty girl"... and being endowed with his strange power. This is the best one yet, I highly recomend it to all Harry Potter fans and any fans of magical tales. Two Thumbs Up!

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Summary: Absolutely Wonderful!
Review: To the person who wrote the review about her 7 year old son falling asleep after 10 pages, well this book is reccomended for 9-12.Next time , check the age groups before buying a book.

Anyway, I loved this book, and it was a great enhancement from the first two, which were already amazing.
To those who say these books are terrible and compare them to Harry Potter, as much as I like Harry Potter, you are not willing to accept that other books might be able to rival it, are you?

So, buy this book, but read the first 2 before this one, or a few events might be spoiled for the reader.

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Summary: Pass on this one unless desperate
Review: Yes, Harry Potter comparisons are both unavoidable and deserved. I love children's books and children's fantasy, so when my son requested the third book in this series, I was willing to give it a chance.

The uh-oh feeling began to steal over me while I read the four-page prologue, which described the series' intricate premise in a totally uncompelling way.

Starting at the third book in the series should be permissible - a talented author can weave in the background without too much negative impact. Er, but not this author, who introduced no fewer than seven characters in the first two pages, giving no useful detail on any of them.

The clunky prose and wooden pace had my 7-year-old son snoozing within 10 pages, so it's adequate bedtime reading. I've thankfully passed the baton to my husband, though - reading this is much too painful, and this book has become a joke in our house.

My son doesn't think or talk about, or playact any of these scenes, as he does with the Harry Potter or Lemony Snicket series.

If you haven't exhausted such children's fantasy classics as C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia, Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles, all the Madeleine L'Engles, Lemony Snicket and of course the Harry Potters, pass on this series. There are much better ways to put your kid to sleep.