The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles Book 3)

10/10 would recommend.

Good quality!

As advertised!

While I do enjoy the story, it is starting to feel repetitive. Sorry, sir, I will not be purchasing more.DO

loved it

I love this entire series...Rick Riordan wrote a great trilogy bringing Ancient Egypt into modern times. As a parent, what I like the best about this series is that my kids learned Egyptian history and mythology without realizing it...sort of like slipping a vitamin into mashed potatoes. The kids ate it up and learned something at the same time. I took my kids to the Field Museum in Chicago shortly after my oldest read this series, and I was amazed at how much she knew...she saw statues and could immediately identify them and tell the basic story about them just because of this series.

perfect

Great Item

Book 3 in Kane Chronicles. Carter and Sadie Kane and their trainees are getting ready to face the god Apophis, Lord of Chaos. They need a special item, hidden in a touring exhibition of Egyptian artefacts on view in a Texas museum. Unfortunately, the Book of Apophis, the fifth and last copy written by the magician Setne is destroyed and there is a massacre, which is blamed on the Kane`s.The balance between Ma`at and Chaos must be restored, which means Ra the Sun god has to be found and resume his nightly journey through the sky. Bast the cat goddess, who had been bound into Sadie`s cat Muffin,after being freed from her endless battle with Apophis tells them she has asked an old friend to help out while she returns to see how close Apophis is to feeing himself.Starting their journey in London for Sadie`s birthday, disasters ensue, from possessed grandparents and a stand off on Waterloo Bridge, then a limo ride to St Petersberg with Bes the dwarf god in spedos before the Egyptian Queen barque through the land of the dead passing through each "House" in turn, facing challenges on the way.Of course things work out, the bad guys get punished and all is well.

Red Pyramid (the first book) was purchased because I couldn't get hold of the Percy Jackson book I needed at the time.Sadly in my opinion this trilogy does not come up to Mr Riordan's expectedstandard.In the Percy books, we got used to in depth characters, good continuity in the story lines, plenty of descriptive narrative taking us from place to place & situation to situation.The Kane chronicles lack much of that. The main characters are irritating and very juvenile, despite supposedly being the next pharaohs of Egypt. They get into a fight/situation/place and whoops, its all over, they won and they are already in the next fight/situation/whatever. They manage to learn all sorts of new magic (of which they supposedly have no previous knowledge) apparently through the ether as there is no description of their lessons/reading etc.Disappointing given how good the Percy books are

My son has worked his way through all of the Mr. Riordan's offerings. A big fan of the original Percy Jackson range, the Kane chronicles has maintained his interest. Some good tie-ins and cross references too.

I bought this book for my youngest son for his birthday, third and final book in the Kane Chronicles series, and so far it hasn't made it to the shelf. Not only did the Birthday boy himself read it but also his brother before they started the series again to read all three a second (and third) time, at the moment there is some sort of competion going on as to first to get to the book gets to read it, involving some compicated rules and 2 bookmarks in the same book. All in all I'd say that it must be a good read, and if they put it down for more than 5 minutes maybe I'll get a chance to find out what the fuss is about.

Book arrived 4 days earlier thank expected..brill! good quality as it stated. No issues at all.