I realize that there’s not a lot of substance to this review, but suffice it to say that I finished this story on May 27. He not only found a reason to connect the two stories, but found a way to make this story a continuation of the Kanes’ story in particular, the ultimate baddie being a character from their past, someone they worried about leaving loose in the world. He found an enemy that could not be defeated without a crossover most crossovers that I’ve ever read (or written) have had no justification other than fun, no plot reason for the crossover (and most have been fan-written rather than canon). I was further impressed that Riordan was able to rationalize the fun that he was having with a crossover story. This is the first of his books to combine the first and the third person narrations, and it feels almost seamless (anything that involves Sadie Kane is going to strike with a bit of a bang she has that effect). Since the release of The Red Pyramid, the first book to veer from Percy’s close first person narration, I’ve admired that Riordan is a risk-taker he does not confine himself to a single style, but tries something new with each series (or did so through the first three The Trials of Apollo returns to close first person): the Percy Jackson series are close first person, The Kane Chronicles are two first person narrations done as audio transcripts, The Heroes of Olympus are several close third narrators. The second switches to a third person limited from Annabeth’s POV. The first story is told from Carter’s first person. Ditto to The House of Hades, the paperback version of which hid the final crossover story, “The Crown of Ptolemy.” And I still don’t own an e-reader nor have I downloaded any app that would allow me to read e-books on my computer judge me. “The Staff of Serapis” where Annabeth Chase meets Sadie Kane was released in the paperback of The Mark of Athena, but I already had a hardcover copy of that book and could never justify creasing the spine of a paperback that I hadn’t purchased just to read the next short story. The end of the story promises a time when the two will need one another again.Īnd I waited on that second story for a long time. The two need to team up and fight the monster together to defeat it. In it, Carter Kane hunts a monster in the swamps of a Long Island park. That short story was every bit as exciting and well written as Riordan’s longer works. The first story, “The Son of Sobek,” I had read before in my paperback of The Serpent’s Shadow. These stories marry two of his stories: Percy Jackson’s (which is found in Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Heroes of Olympus, and now continues in The Trials of Apollo) and the Kanes’ (from The Kane Chronicles). OL18547816W Origin-contact Origin-note Physical items are owned or controlled by and digitized by Internet Archive Origin-organization Internet Archive Page_number_confidence 89.62 Pages 214 Ppi 300 Republisher_date 20200107202557 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 342 Scandate 20200106045745 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780979233142 Tts_version 3.Demigods and Magicians collects in a hardcover volume three stories released as e-books and as short stories in paperback editions of some of Rick Riordan’s longer books. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 05:43:36 Associated-names Riordan, Rick Wilson, Leah Boxid IA1758123 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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