Leopards' Gold (Chronicles of the Red King #3)

Review by Shelly - review of the trilogy Wow Jenny Nimmo knows how to tell a cracking story. The Secret Kingdom books are my first taste of her novels and I have to say won’t be the last. The trilogy follows Timoken, a young boy who is enchanted by a magical moon spider web cloak when he is born and......more

I liked this third & final volume of this trilogy/prequel to the Charlie Bone & Red King series more than the first two as the story is more focused and better developed. As we meet the nine children of the Red King, we find that the divisions between good & evil in the Charlie Bone books started wi......more

Maybe my favorite of the three. Charlie Bone books were my favorite though......more

Although this is the third installment of the Chronicles of the Red King it can be read as a stand-alone book. Many years have passed since Stone of Ravenglass. Focusing on the children of Timoken, the story is a fantasy adventure filled with surprises. Each of Timoken’s children has their own power......more

There is both good and bad here. The bad is that the book simply cannot stand on its own. There's a definite need to have read the earlier two novels and even the Children of the Red King series as well. The good is that this is the volume in this prequel trilogy that most closely emulates the Child......more