hencheeks reviewed on
First, this book is a 2.5 star book. Second, I read Heroes of Olympus (HOO) and Percy Jackson....Olympians series before this one. so Sadie and Carter find out their magic, the gods of Egypt are real, and now they need to save the world from Set. They have limited time and are coming across obstacles like giant crocodiles. In the end, who is the REAL enemy??? So anyway, this book wasn't too great. The main thing was the switch from Sadie to Carter. Bad idea. In HOO it was in third person and it worked out great. But now with it in first person, it was just that much more confusing and bad.Second, the dry humor and chapter titles were screaming 'Percy Jackson' at me, they were so the same writing style. I understand it's the same author, so some similarities will occur, but it was just too similar. More exact. Lastly, I just didn't feel 'in-touch' with the characters. I felt like I was reading Percy Jackson, just different kids, techniques, and gods.Still the same 'Oh, 30 seconds until we fail? How can we win now?' and they do.I will be reading the rest of the series, because the good thing is that as usual Rick Riordan keeps his surprises and twists perfectly in check. I do not expect to be impressed.
