Charlie Bone and the Hidden King

I read Charlie Bone and the Hidden King back-to-back with Ian Irvine's Runcible Jones: Gate to Nowhere. These two books are so stylistically similar they are not quite clones but certainly closer than cousins—literary half-siblings, perhaps. Highly improbable plots with melodramatic overtones, landsc......more

In the fifth Charlie Bone, strange things are happening: a magical snow has appeared, all the animals have gone missing, Maisie is frozen, and Amy Bone has taken off her wedding ring. Charlie and his friends must find the king and capture his tears to set everything back to normal.......more

In the fifth book in Jennie Nimmo's Children of the Red King series, odd things are happening in Charlie Bone's neighborhood. First there is an odd snowstorm and then all the animals disappear. Benjamin Brown, recently returned from Hong Kong, misses his dog Runner Bean and wants Charlie to help get......more

While I once again enjoyed the story as a whole, the book failed to improve from the last installment. I keep hanging onto this series because I'm hoping it'll improve but, so far, it has not. Nevertheless, I plan to continue to read the series and see what new stories unfold for the children of the......more