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Creta the Winged Terror (Beast Quest)

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My son was initially scared of reading, but since he's been seven he loves reading the Beast Quest books (he also likes Tintin, Geronimo Stilton, and books by Roald Dahl), and as an interested father I make sure I read them too to understand what's influencing him and to be able to take part in his conversations. I haven't enjoyed the previous books I've read in the series, but this one has been one of the better ones, good enough to review at least.

In the story, Tom discovers that a plague of beetles has come to attack the kingdom, eating their way through the castle walls on their way to retrieve the Golden Armour that the evil magician needs. The story sees the return of some of Tom's beast friends (Epos the fire bird and Arcta the snow cyclops), as they fight the disgusting, putrid beetles. The swarm has kidnapped a brave army captain, whose body is used to form the horrid Creta, a bug giant formed from millions of beetles that cannot be attacked or destroyed. The team is transported to a magical stream where they manage to figure out how to defeat the beast and return important magic objects to the kingdom to save it.

In some ways, it has some resemblance to the story told in The Mummy, with the scarab swarms, but the story is engaging and exciting enough, I'm glad I read it. I would recommend it to any parent with an eight-year-old who loves action books that are not terribly violent.