The Red Pyramid

I finally got it finished and wrote the review! I’ll do a little review at the start without spoilers, but it’s a great book and I want to do a more in depth review, which will no doubt have spoilers in every other sentence.

Rick Riordan has written another brilliant beginning to what I hope is another great series. He, once again, has his mythology down to a tee and makes it interesting. Even for the people who aren’t mythology nerds. Which is a huge attraction of his books. The whole book keeps you on the edge of your seat, with various twists and turns. I found the book a little predictable, but the very ending I did not see coming at all.
When I started reading this book, I was skeptical if Riordan could pull off another modern mythology series. However, he pulled off another great feat. After conquering Greek mythology, Riordan moved straight to Egyptian mythology and pulled it off just as easily. I recommend the book if you enjoyed Percy Jackson, because the writing style is the same and just as entertaining. I give it a solid four out of five stars.

Since you might not read on in avoidance of spoilers, I'll put my little announcement here. The next book I hope to review is Artemis Fowl and the Atlantic Complex by Eoin Colfer. Which will be up in a week or so.

Now, we move into the spoiler part of the review. If you haven’t read the book yet, I don’t suggest moving on, unless you aren’t even planning on reading the book anyways.





THERE ARE LOTS OF SPOILERS AFTER THIS POINT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(in case you don't know, I hate spoilers, so I feel obligated to warn you so a horrid fate does not fall upon you)





Parts I absolutely loved (pros):
Wonderful, engaging characters. In particular, I especially liked Bast and Anubis. (I’m a girl, whaddya expect?)
The “godling” concept and how the second consciousness in Sadie’s and Carter’s head was presented. It was told in a very simple way and not overused. I loved it.
Learning about things with the characters. The magic, the hieroglyphics, what happened with their mom.
I don’t know if I’m crazy, or this was in every copy of the book, but the random hieroglyphics in the book. I want to figure out what they mean at some point, I have all of them post-it noted.
The little plot twist with Amos and Desjardins (sp? I don’t have the book with me) and who was supposedly hosting Set.
The whole Zia isn’t really Zia.

Stuff I wasn’t too crazy about (cons):
There didn’t really seem to be a difference between Sadie and Carter’s voices in the writing – which proved itself a little confusing. After a while, I got used to looking at the name at the start of the chapter or looking at the top of the page, where it conveniently tells you which character’s point of view you’re in.
The only other thing I really didn’t like is how it was presented as a transcription of an “audio recording” and randomly there would be in brackets of them conversing with each other in the present.
I wish they went more in depth into the bloodline thing. The Kane family is mentioned a lot, but they didn’t say much about the mom’s bloodline. Or even her last name if I remember correctly.
Other than that I really loved the book.