Phoney is up to his usual tricks and the world is falling apart all around them!

My review of the entire series is on my blog at http://knowitnotsomuch.blogspot.com/2013/01/bone.html

Great as always. Getting more into the plot as it becomes more and more exciting

This volume feel skin of like a pit stop in our heroes journey. A real 'calm before the storm'. I really don't know what to expect in the conclusion of this series, but I'm excited!

Short one, great for the road trip!

Why I Read It: Next in a series. The penultimate volume!!

This penultimate volume was considerably more exciting than the previous volume Ghost Circles. Thorn, Gran'ma Ben and the Bone cousins have finally made it to Atheia and are getting things ready for the final battle with Briar and the Lord of the Locusts. There's other stuff going on too: for example, since the royal family had to flee Atheia, it's been taken over by this a-hole named Tarsil and he's not keen on the royal family coming back. Also, Phoney is up to his schemes again and is convinced that there's treasure hidden in Atheia, so of course he wants it.

So really, this volume wasn't good because there was a whole lot of action, but there was definitely a lot of PREPARING for action to come, which is to be expected since the next volume is also the last one (which I've already read and it's AWESOME.) There was also a lot more humour in this volume than the last one, which was grim as hell.

As far as art goes, Ghost Circles definitely wasn't bad, but it needed to have a really plain and monochromatic colour palette because the group was navigating through a barren landscape; this time around it was much more colourful, which was nice on the eyes. Other than that though, it was the usual stuff you can expect from Smith, which is consistently good.

Final Verdict: This was great build-up for the final volume of the series. This volume isn't packed with action, but there's definitely a lot going on to keep things moving swiftly. There was more humour here as well, which was a nice reprieve from the grimness of the previous volume, and for a bit of a breather before the nail-biting finale (which I've already read and loved.) I love how this series started out as kind of slow and "okay" for me and has turned into something truly epic -- I can see why people love this series so much.

Oh my goodness! I can’t believe there is only one book left in the series. This one was magnificent and I can’t wait to see how this story ends!

One left!

Treasure Hunters by Jeff Smith is the seventh book in the Bone series. The Bone cousins, Bartleby, Thorn and Rose have made it to Atheia which is currently suffering hard times made worse by the ghost circles.

While Rose prepares for war, Phone Bone sees a way to make a fortune. Unlike most of his previous attempts, he's dead to rights this time. Phone thinks like a conman and can out think other conmen. It's the one thing he's genuinely good at.

Treasure Hunters is one of my favorite volumes out the series. It's full of adventures, castle politics, family secrets and of course, buried treasure. It was interesting to see Thorn and Rose's home and to see how the city had survived in their absence.