RiordanverseReadalong

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During August we'll be reading the last book in the Kane Chronicles - The Serpent's Shadow. The Kane siblings must battle Apophis and save the world.

How have you been finding the books so far? Excited to read the final book?

#RiordanverseReadalong

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The Serpent's Shadow | Rick Riordan

During August we'll be reading the last book in the Kane Chronicles - The Serpent's Shadow. The Kane siblings must battle Apophis and save the world.

How have you been finding the books so far? Excited to read the final book?

I haven't enjoyed this series as much as others. I've been finding the characters frustrating and the romances are questionable

#RiordanverseReadalong

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The Throne of Fire | Rick Riordan

so-so

I'm not sure I'll carry on with this series, I'm finding it incredibly boring and I'm losing patience with the characters.

The world is ending in 5 days and there's no urgency. The MCs go off to do non related things. It's so frustrating especially when other RR books have that urgency, that tension, and danger.

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PuddleJumper Onto the other reason why I'm potentially done with this series. The romance. Carter has become obsessed with Zia, a girl he met once, and has some white knight type fantasy going on.

Sadie, who is 12, has a crush on a 16 year old and a 5000 year old god. Ok. What isn't ok is they like her back and they want to pursue a relationship with her. The 12 year old child.
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PuddleJumper I don't know if I want to commit anymore time to this series especially when I've got other books I want to read.
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5feet.of.fury Ugh 12 is not appropriate for any age gap, 4 years or 4000. That‘s very icky 2w

BookmarkTavern The main reason I made it through this series was that the audiobook narrators are fantastic. But they do sound like adults, so the romances didn‘t really register as icky as they are until I finished the books, and actually thought about them. 😅 (edited) 2w

PuddleJumper @BookmarkTavern The audiobooks have been helping loads, I don't think I would have finished it if I was reading. I don't know why he made them so young, they come across as older anyway! 2w

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The Throne of Fire | Rick Riordan

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#RiordanverseReadalong July book is The Throne of Fire, the next book in the Kane Chronicles

How did everyone find The Red Pyramid?

PuddleJumper ❤️❤️ 1mo

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The Throne of Fire | Rick Riordan

#RiordanverseReadalong July book is The Throne of Fire, the next book in the Kane Chronicles

How did everyone find The Red Pyramid?

I enjoyed it. The magic was very different and I liked how the gods were portrayed.

@mom2bugnbee @LitsyEvents

Roary47 Ooo I‘ll read along. I have this series and never read it. 😅 I‘ll catch up to the second book so I can discuss. 😍 1mo

PuddleJumper @Roary47 Brilliant, I've added you to the list. The book club on Storygraph is here if you why you join, I've already got the buddy reads set up for the books https://app.thestorygraph.com/book_clubs/158fd0c1-ae91-45ee-b40c-6ab2f39d101f

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Heroes of Olympus: The Son of Neptune | Rick Riordan

#RiordanverseReadalong has finished the Heroes of Olympus series

Here is the book club's rating of all of the books. Do you agree? Disagree?

Son of Neptune was definitely my favourite

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The Blood of Olympus: The Heroes of Olympus | Rick Riordan

so-so

This entire series was boring. I don't think I was ever going to love it because I'm a Latinist. Riordan's interpretation of Rome and Roman religion annoyed me.

Even ignoring that element, there were too many characters and POVs. It really slowed the book down and I honestly didn't care about many of the characters.

Also, not sure if it's my ace showing but damn did I not care about the teen romances.

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The Red Pyramid | Rick Riordan

so-so

Like a lot of Riordan's books, this was very formulaic, repetitive, and too long. It was an underwhelming book for me.

I liked the magic, the different take on divinity and divine children, and the world building.
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PuddleJumper Sadie and Carter were boring main characters. There was set up for tension, interfamilial drama and resentment and it goes nowhere.

The two start with very distinct voices which become muddled as the book goes on. Near the end I couldn't tell whose POV it was unless I checked.
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PuddleJumper Similarly, Horus and Isis didn't sound different to the main characters. It would have been nice if they were distinct, maybe used different language or just didn't sound like modern teenagers.

This could have been 200 pages shorter and it would have been better.
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PuddleJumper Also that is the ugliest cover 1mo

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The Red Pyramid | Rick Riordan

repost for @PuddleJumper:

June is the start of the Kane Chronicles for #RiordanverseReadalong

New characters, new mythology, and hopefully new fun!

We are starting with The Red Pyramid

This is open to anyone that wants to join, there is a book club on Storgraph linked in the comments

PuddleJumper Thanks! 2mo

GingerAntics I had this book once, but I never started reading it. I did love everything with Percy Jackson in it, though. 2mo

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The Red Pyramid | Rick Riordan

June is the start of the Kane Chronicles for #RiordanverseReadalong

New characters, new mythology, and hopefully new fun!

We are starting with The Red Pyramid

This is open to anyone that wants to join, there is a book club on Storgraph linked in the comments

@LitsyEvents @mom2bugnbee

PuddleJumper Book club: https://app.thestorygraph.com/book_clubs/158fd0c1-ae91-45ee-b40c-6ab2f39d101f

I've got the last book in the Heroes of Olympus series to read. I'm hoping to get to that soon, I may skip it and go straight to this one as I've not really enjoyed that series 2mo

mom2bugnbee I might like the Kane Chronicles even more than the Percy series! Looking forward to re-reading these! 2mo

PuddleJumper @mom2bugnbee I've never read them so I'm excited! 2mo

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