The Red Pyramid

The Red Pyramid is the first book in another series by Rick Riordan called The Kane Chronicles.

This series has two main characters, Carter and Sadie Kane, who, although they're as different as night and day in both personality and appearance, are full-blooded siblings. The series also focuses on the Egyptian gods.

Carter and Sadie, like Percy, had no idea at the beginning of the book that the ancient Egyptian gods were real. Then they watched their father sacrifice himself to summon five of the biggest, each of whom choose someone in the vicinity to be their host. Carter becomes the host for Horus, and Sadie hosts Isis.

Of course, evil is also released. First off, their dad is now dead. Second, an uncle shows up out of the blue and takes Carter and Sadie on a short river journey all the way from England to New York.

It's been a while since I've read the book, so I can't remember too many of the details, especially without giving away spoilers. Let's just say this book also mirrors the Percy Jackson series in that no book in the series would be complete without a quest and a time limit.

I'm honestly not too sure how I liked this book. I thought it was well-written in true Riordan style, and the Egyptian gods seem to be slightly less bratty and spoiled than the Greek gods - slightly.

But I didn't appreciate how Riordan talked about Moses (God's prophet who lived in Egypt for the first forty years of his life) as if he was a magician who also believed in Egyptian gods. I feel like there were a couple other complaints I had, but they were probably minor compared to my first one about Moses.