The Serpent's Shadow by Rick Riordan

This is the third and may be the final installment of the Kane Chronicles as Sadie puts it towards the end of the book.  She said that they are "going to be so busy training and attending school and living [their] lives."

The story takes off around six months after Apophis broke away from his prison.  However, the Chaos snake has yet to discharge an all-out assault on the mortal world as everyone expects.

The siblings and their initiates at the Brooklyn House are of the belief that Apophis is destryong all the copies of a specific version of The Book of Overcoming Apophis, the ones written by a certain Prince Khaemwaset, more popularly known as Setne.  However, the Kanes or anyone for that matter still has no clue on how to defeat Apophis.

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The Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan

At the end of The Red Pyramid, the Kane siblings decided to take the path of the gods.  they also wanted to reconcile the gods and the House of Life in order to restore Ma'at and defeat Chaos.  So the siblings left djeds that only those with the blood of the pharaohs will be able to find.

The siblings have already set up Brooklyn House as training ground.  About twenty young magicians (including Carter and Sadie) now live there.  They are a mixed bunch of kids of all ages from around the world.  There are a few who were old enough to be in college which is a good thing because they can chaperon the younger students.  The rest are mostly between the ages of nine and fifteen - there's nine-year-old Felix, who believes that penguins are the solution to every problem which proves to be traumatic for the birds; there's Julian from Boston and Sean is from Dublin; Alyssa is from the path of the earth god; then there's Cleo, who wanted to study the path of the god of knowledge, came from Brazil; Jaz is a cheerleader from Nashville who has a knack for healing magic; and Walt is from Seatlle, who has an innate ability for making charms, he himself made all the amulets that he wears around his neck.

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The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan

I have always been fascinated with Egyptian mythology but I am not as knowledgeable in it as I am in Greek myth.  So when a friend recommended that I read this series, he had me at "it's like Percy Jackson but only Egyptian myth".  I love the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, by the way, so naturally I would read this one by the same author.

What first struck me is the warning part at the start of the book.  I loved it!  It says that the book was just a transcription of a digital recording and that sometimes there was poor audio quality so the author could only guess what the narrators were saying.  I find it unique, this is the first time I read a novel that was just transcribed.

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