The Serpent's Shadow [review]

“The Serpent’s Shadow” by Rick Riordan. The book is the third installment in Rick Riordan’s series “The Kane Chronicles”. The serpents shadow was considered amazing in my beliefs compared to the others in the series which consist of “The Red Pyramid”, and “The Throne of Fire”.

All three books follow the same plot line. It takes place in modern time. Dr. Kane the father of Carter and Sadie Kane is a famed archeologist who hunts down ancient Egyptian artifacts. Some way or another Dr. Kane has found out that the world is going to end, because Apophis had returned to the world. Dr. Kane realizes that the only way to fight of Apophis is for gods and magicians to fight together. The idea of fighting with gods is already considered bad, the gods have all been banishes away because of the written documents that state how they nearly destroyed the world. Though the Kane’s bring the idea of fighting with gods to a new level, they decided to harbor the power of the gods within them. In other words gods and human becoming one figure, the god inhabiting their body. This significantly increases the power of the human to the power of the god. The House of Life, why is the center for all magicians are strictly against this idea. As dooms day comes closer and closer, the Kane’s decide that they need the power of all the other magicians to help them. The Chief Lector of the house of life a kind man who would be willing to help them was killed by rogue magicians who did not want to help the Kane’s. When the Chief Lector died he was replaces my Amos, the uncle of Sadie and Carter. Amos is also the host of Set, the god of evil. The other magicians in The House of Life believe the House is becoming corrupt and join the rogue magicians who are head by Sarah Jacobi. Sarah Jacobi used to be a part of the House of Life but was kicked out by the old Chief Lector for creating a tsunami in the Indian Ocean which killed thousands upon thousands of people. For the rest of the book they focus on bringing back the old King of the Gods, Ra. Ra had self exiled himself from the world deeming that he would never come back. The book goes back and forth between the problems and the solutions. Until the final battle in which they fight Apophis, after a harboring the power of the gods and getting some magicians to help them.

The book was good read that I would recommend for someone who is in search of a book to read. Though I would recommend reading the other two first because the plot begins to advance from the very beginning.

The Serpent's Shadow review score :

Characterization............. 10 /10
World building............... 9 / 10
Magic system................. 10 / 10
Story.............................. 6 / 10
Writing........................... 9 / 10

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