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Charlie Bone and the Time Twister is book II in the series Children of the Red King. A sequel to the first book Midnight for Charlie Bone, this book continues with the theme of twelve endowed children, all related to the powerful Red King. The main theme of this book reminds me of the scheme used to create the popular series Harry Potter, which now has made a multi million empire thru movies as well as the books. I would recommend this book to anyone who has a large imagination and would like to laugh at the mere thought of turning into a bird, or hearing photographs talk. At the same time, the characters are very easy to relate to, especially for a younger adult struggling with the tensions of growing up in a strict home. Every character has a characteristic about him or her that can easily be related to real life in a number of ways. For example, all Billy Raven wants is a family, someone to love him. I'm sure that every person can relate to that during one point in their life or another. The one thing that i really enjoyed about this book was that no matter how hard you try, it is very hard to put the book down. It sucks you into the plot and you just want to know what will happen next. Its not very predictable, and is very subtle with clues thru out the whole story. Something will appear in chapter two which you though was nothing to be concerned with, and it will reappear in chapter seven and change the whole ending of the story. It keeps you guessing about every twist and turn around the corner. There are parts that make you laugh so hard you lose your page and other parts that keep you on the edge of your seat, just wondering if everything will be all right in the end. In such a series, you can never be sure because there is always something going wrong. The one flaw in the book is the same thing that i liked. Sometimes plot elements come from nowhere, and others are clearly just for drama and entertainment. You begin to wonder how much of the story is necessary for the plot to take place successfully. I personally enjoyed the book thoroughly not only because it exercised my imagination, but because it was easy to read as well as enjoyable. The vocabulary was very easy to comprehend and the plot was easy to understand. I would recommend this book to libraries big in fantasy, or to anyone who needs a book to bring along with them to the beach. A light read with a playful plot will give anyone the boost of imagination that is craved in today's society.

Charlie Bone returns in Charlie Bone and the Time Twister. In this book, like that last one, everything fits together just so perfectly, it's unreal. Charlie Bone is an endowed descendant of the Red King. It's known that the Red King had magical powers, so did his sons. Later, the Red King gone to live in the forest and never to be heard from again. His sons all leave to other places too. There are 12 children that are the magical descendants of the Red King, At Charlie's school, the Bloor Academy, which is a boarding school like Hogwarts, all of the endowed children go there. Instead of being with the regular gifted students at all times, the last couple hours of the day, the descendants of the children of the Red King would gather to do homework. Henry Yewbeam, great uncle of Charlie, was sent through time with a marble called the Time Twister which is a evil act of Ezekiel Bloor, Henry's cousin. Charlie found Henry lingering around the halls of Bloor Academy and Charlie hid Henry in the northern tower of the school. But Henry is caught by Ezekiel Bloor's people and thrown in a dungeon. Like all other stories, Charlie rescues his cousin and they live happily ever after.

This book was a great sequel, most sequels aren't as good as first but this is an exception. It was surprising to found out that the mean cook was actually a really nice person with many secrets. Her living quarters were tidy and clean. "'What a place,' Gabriel murmured, gazing around at the bright pictures and gleaming antique furniture. 'You'd never guess that all this was right under that gloomy old building.'" (140-141, Nimmo). I imagine this place as a mini-heaven under a stack of gloominess.

The over all theme of this book is that age don't matter. You can be old and young at the same time according to Henry. Henry is like 90 some years old and actually he is 13 years old.

I have just finish this book and it is great. Someone gets hit by a hit and run. Also one lost pair of lost brothers ae reunited.