Their character traits and histories are given in a way that allows you to get to know them as the two point of view characters, Carter and Sadie, do. The characters are all individuals and it’s easy to imagine them as real people, human or not. The characters are all pretty well developed. I had trouble picking just a few quotes to use in this, mostly because Sadie is incredibly sarcastic and it makes 90% of what she says quotable. He could probably put his grocery list on ebay and guess who would bid. And Rick Riordan? I’ll be supporting this man’s work FOREVER. Really though I’m one of those people who, if I like the author themselves, I’ll support their work. I really enjoyed reading The Red Pyramid, even though it’s categorized as Middle Grade SFF.
I keep putting writing this review off, though I’m not sure why. I know every death custom in the world–how to die properly, how to prepare the body and soul for the afterlife. “This is not the sort of test you fail, Sadie Kane. To stop him, the siblings embark on a dangerous journey across the globe – a quest that brings them ever closer to the truth about their family and their links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.īast borrowed a silver Lexus convertible. Soon, Sadie and Carter discover that the gods of Egypt are waking, and the worst of them–Set–has his sights on the Kanes. Instead, he unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes him to oblivion and forces the children to flee for their lives.
Kane brings the siblings together for a “research experiment” at the British Museum, where he hopes to set things right for his family. While Sadie has lived with her grandparents in London, her brother has traveled the world with their father, the brilliant Egyptologist, Dr. Since their mother’s death, Carter and Sadie have become near strangers.
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