Diary note

I just finished reading the first book of the trilogy “Kane Chronicles”. The first book is called, “The Red Pyramid”, and I liked all of it. When I first got all three of the books from Barnes and Nobles the only reason I got them were because they were made by “Rick Riordan” and his specialty is mythology. Something I found out was that on the front cover there was a caption that read “Bonus short story: Son of Sobek”, and I knew I couldn’t start the second book “Kane Chronicles: Throne of Fire” unless this was completed. So I finished the story in about 15 minutes and let me say it was very frustrating. Now this does not mean it wasn’t good because I thought that incorporating Percy Jackson (a character from Rick Riordan’s first book series) was a really smart decision.

One of the main characters in this book “Carter” was on the search for a monster that was seemingly reported as the “Loch Ness Monster” (in the news). After reaching the destination of the beast’s hideout he slowly waded around a large pool of water and was suddenly eaten by a ferocious crocodile 10 times larger than him. This was very scary and Carter was about to punch his way out of the crocodile using the power of “Horus” (Egyptian God), when the crocodile suddenly regurgitated him out of it’s belly and ran away. When Carter wiped the goo off his face and got back on his feet he noticed the giant figure disappeared and in it’s place was a boy a foot taller than. It was “Percy Jackson”! Percy explained that the humongous crocodile ran away after he thrust his sword straight at it’s behind (Percy did this). 

This is the frustrating part, they both realized they each had different powers from different gods but chose not to understand that there were more than just the other mythology! Percy Jackson thought that Carter’s sword looked weird since it was curved (Percy was a demigod from Greek Mythology and no one used “curved swords”. However, Carter kept on thinking that Percy was a magician or at least a host for a god that he didn’t recognize (from Egyptian Mythology). They both never realized that they were just two different people trying to fight two different battles. Thankfully, in the next book Carter’s sister “Sadie” and Percy girlfriend “Annebeth” were able to figure it out by themselves so it’s all good.