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I've poked around and no one seems to have read the Charlie Bone books so I thought I'd give my recommendation for them. As someone wrote on a comment (I think on Walmart.com where I was looking for book ideas the other day), don't go into this book thinking it's another Harry Potter. Even though I found this book initially in a listing of "Books you'd like if you liked Harry Potter", it's nothing really like Harry Potter. The only problem is that it IS like Harry Potter. And that isn't a good thing. You get so caught up trying to see the similarities that you miss the parts of the book that are just fun and nothing like JKR's take on magic.
I've only got about 5 more pages of the first book but I'm going to read the second and I'd recommend the books. This first one reads pretty young, maybe even younger than the first HP book. Maybe around an 8 or 9 year old? He's ten in this first book... and it can get intense (on the scale of those are bad people... not oh no that snake is coming after that poor boy)... but it reads really fast. The idea is still very unique and shows that there is still a lot of room in the world of fantasy for magic... and boys with red hair (there is a notable sentence that mentions a boy with "weasley red hair" which made me grimace).
So, anyway... I don't find the whole thing fanfiction worthy but I like it all the same.
I've only got about 5 more pages of the first book but I'm going to read the second and I'd recommend the books. This first one reads pretty young, maybe even younger than the first HP book. Maybe around an 8 or 9 year old? He's ten in this first book... and it can get intense (on the scale of those are bad people... not oh no that snake is coming after that poor boy)... but it reads really fast. The idea is still very unique and shows that there is still a lot of room in the world of fantasy for magic... and boys with red hair (there is a notable sentence that mentions a boy with "weasley red hair" which made me grimace).
So, anyway... I don't find the whole thing fanfiction worthy but I like it all the same.
