this was my least favorite out of the three. still good, but for me it was lacking the main motivation that had appeared in the other books.

This was a really cool read. The villians were done super well and I love the adventure and the suspense. My favorite people are the other ship captains like the captain for the White Ram and the Blue Turtle or something like that. This was a marvelous book and I loved it! I only wish he had written more books in the series.

Although not as enjoyable as book 2, I still really enjoyed it.
The death of Serphina was sad but I honestly wasn't that torn up about it: we don't learn a lot about Seraphina and he relationship with Ben is superficial. They barely know each other and Ben knew that he would have to leave her. Other then that and the constant teen angst between Ben and Seraphina being apart, I rather enjoyed the book.

Amazing

This was a fun read. It reminded my of the Adventures of Sinbad movies I used to watch on TV when I was a kid.

Great book, but I think I prefer the characters of the first one.

This book was so great!!!!! It took me a while to read it cause it's pretty long, but in the end it was so good!!!
So at the end it was very, very, very sad because one of Ben's best friends, Serifina, died. And then Ben and Ned had to leave all of their friends that they had met and it was just sad. I was hoping for a happy ending where, like, the angel breaks the curse or something, but it was just sad. :(
BUT IT WAS STILL SO GOOOOOODDDD!!!!!!!!!!

I really liked this series. It was full of action and adventure. I felt a little sorry for Ben and Ned at the end, but I think it was an appropriate ending for this series.

Children's Books Too Cool For School  This is yet another advance that I never got around to reading when it was new but, sadly, this one didn't come as a particularly pleasant surprise. Not that it looked like it was going to be exactly my thing, what with the boy beating on a shark with an oar on the cover and everything, but, you know, sometimes books surprise me despite their odious covers. So this is, apparently, the third book in a series called "Castaways of the Flying Dutchman." I'm going to admit right off the bat that I have not read the previous books in the series, which may have affected my opinion of this book. Although, since I didn't have any trouble understanding what had happened to Ned and Ben in the previous books, I'm afraid this one might have rehashed too much ground as well. However, that is pretty much a baseless theory. As previous books must have explained, Ben and his dog Ned served on the ship The Flying Dutchman and when the ship was cursed, they were spared the fate of the rest of the ship's evil inhabitants, but for reasons that are quite unclear to me, they were still cursed to wander the earth and live eternally. In this latest installment of their wanderings, they end up initially separated -- Ned (the dog) bumping into a traveling circus, and Ben being sold to a slave trader. They meet up again when the circus is brought to the slave trader's house to preform. Frankly, I don't feel like I can describe a great deal more without giving away too much of the plot. Perhaps it was the nature of the locations and settings, but I found this story to be rather rife with stereotypes. There were some very good and helpful Christians and Jews, and some rather bad Arabs who kept referring to the white Ben as an "infidel" and were horrified of his dog. Two of the circus members were black women, and very much treated as the exotic "other." There were several Italians, who said, "Mama Mia" and the like, and probably more I am forgetting. On the other hand, there were some rather entertaining, swashbuckling sort of moments, and the book maintained fairly good suspense throughout. The banter between Ned and Ben (oh, I forgot to mention they could speak to each other telepathically, didn't I?) was humorous enough, as well. If slightly unbelievable. However, the book left me, by and large, unsatisfied and occasionally offended. Not to mention rather feeling rather tired of its endless moral lessons. I don't have any real desire to read the previous books, nor will I snatch up the next installment, when it comes out. Might be good for boys ages 9-12 who like adventure, sword fights, piracy and the like.

i really liked it!!! it wasnt in two sections like earlier books. this stuck with the same charactors throughout the book. the ending is kindof sad though. but its still super good!! almost as good as superman!!!

It wasn't as good as the first. I found it very slow till the second half, and then it was good. I was just beginning to like the girl, when she died!! But, a death always helps a book progress, so it was good. Ned is witty, and fantastic. The only reason I kept reading.

I enjoyed the whole series. Too bad there are no more