The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan

The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan, 528 pages

Well, Nate pretty much said it all in his post. Serves me right for procrastinating on blogging about this book. Maybe I'll blame it on the lukewarm feelings I have toward the book. In a nutshell: the kinda-boring Kane siblings find out that they're descended from pharoahs and have special magical abilities and then go on a magical quest in which they battle against big mythological creatures and Egyptian gods.

I can't imagine where Riordan ever got the idea for this story. (I hope the dripping sarcasm is apparent.) Seriously, it seems like somebody — a grade-school librarian, perhaps — told Riordan that the kids are learning so much about Greek mythology through his Percy Jackson books that Riordan got the harebrained idea to shove a different mythology down their throats in the exact same way as before. Just with blah characters, a weaker plot and a lesser-known mythology. Yeah, it was action-packed as all Riordan's books are, but I didn't really find myself caring about the characters as they went all Autobot-Decepticon on each other.

I'll definitely pick up the next Heroes of Olympus book of Riordan's, but the Kane Chronicles? Nah.