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School Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 2010
Gr 4-9 Riordan takes the elements that made the "Percy Jackson" books (Hyperion) so popular and ratchets them up a notch. Carter, 14, and Sadie, 12, have grown up apart. He has traveled all over the world with his Egyptologist father, Dr. Julius Kane, while Sadie has lived in London with her grandparents. Their mother passed away under mysterious circumstances, so when their father arrives in London and wants to take them both on a private tour of the British Museum, all is not necessarily what it seems. The evening ends w...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on July 1, 2010
Siblings Carter and Sadie Kane are plunged into a world of Egyptian gods and monsters when their father, secretly a powerful magician and descendant of the pharaohs, disappears after a failed spell blows up the Rosetta Stone and summons five gods into the mortal world. Fleeing assassination orders from the underground House of Life, the brother and sister begin to discover their new powers—to read hieroglyphics, to work spells using Divine Words, to create ghostly av...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2010
Carter and Sadie's father is a magician and descendant of the pharaohs; he disappears after a failed spell summons five gods into ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Junior Library Guild
Reviewed on June 1, 2010
While the book has a dark undercurrent, Rick Riordan adds levity to the story through Carter and Sadie’s bantering, a series...Log In or Sign Up to Read More