The Throne of Fire

***Minor spoilers for Red Pyramid and VERY minor spoilers for Throne of Fire***

The good news: I finished The Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan. The bad news: I stayed up half the night to do it. It was totally worth it though! Unlike my apathy toward Dead Reckoning, I found that once I had time to sit down and read The Throne of Fire, I couldn't put it down.

I had avoided the Kane Chronicles even though I loved Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians because I couldn't imagine that I would love the Egyptian gods as much as I adored the Greek ones. When my BFF gave me The Red Pyramid for Christmas, I decided that it had to be worth a try. After all, Rick Riordan wrote it, right? Wow, I was glad I read that. Carter and Sadie had a great dynamic, and The Throne of Fire builds on that very well. They learn more about not only their magical capabilities but about themselves and how much they care about each other even if they also drive each other crazy (as it usually is with brothers and sisters). I how Riordan writes the Kane Chronicles, as if he's transcribing the tape they supposedly made. It makes it different and distinguishes it from the Percy Jackson and Heroes of Olympus series.

The book is nonstop from the opening lines to the ending. We see old friends and meet new ones. After the events of The Red Pyramid, Sadie and Carter have assembled roughly 20 kids, from ages 9 to 19, to train in the path of the gods. The plan to stop Apophis from rising is to wake the sun god Ra, as he was the only being the Lord of Chaos feared. It's a crazy, almost certainly suicidal plan, which means of course the Kanes are going to go ahead and do it!

Along the way, Carter is still searching for Zia, whom we learned at the end of Red Pyramid was in a magical sleep and hidden away to protect her. Sadie is still head over heels for Anubis, (can I just say I'm TOTALLY Team Anubis here?)but finds herself also liking another boy, an initiate. We also see Bast again, along with our old friends Isis, Horus and Set. I know we aren't supposed to trust the god of evil, but you know, he's kind of growing on me. We meet a few new friends along the way as well.

I LOVE the little nods to Percy in this series. It's only one sentence in each of the first two books, but it's enough for the fangirl in me to squeal with delight.

All in all, I loved this book. It was every bit as fun as the first one. Once I read Son of Neptune, I'll be eagerly awaiting the next book in this series. It's a good thing this year is filled with great new releases for books. It'll keep me occupied until the new Kane Chronicles comes out!

I'll have some new layouts up soon. I finished ADSR, so I will post up the final pages, along with some other ones I've done lately. Look for that soon!