Status Updates From The Red Pyramid (The Kane C...

Ohhh right Osiris and Set are brothers and Julius is Osiris’s host. Duuurrrrr I wonder where his brother Amos is, surely he’s not working as the host of Set or anything

The Kane kids are on a breakneck crash course through Egyptian mythology, just like Percy Jackson. Functionally, it means single characters are brought in during the daring dash to be really cool and then disappear in quick succession. Hopefully Zia sticks around longer than the others. A lot of the Kane dynamic is both siblings pulling the “I had SO MUCH worse a time!!” which is understandable if annoying.

It was initially refreshing but Sadie is already like 100% into this Egyptian insanity and you would hardly know that her and Carter have been separated for most of their aware childhoods. At the very least, the attitude of this branch of the Jackson mythos toward its gods is very different, classifying them more as forces of nature rather than the lovable Grecian scamps.

So I appreciate the delivery of this book over the Percy Jackson series mostly because it has a tad bit more weight to it. The “recording” framing device is an artificial abstraction but Carter and Sadie give me a better point of view than “guess I’ll just roll with it” Percy, and it helps to have someone who is simultaneously a hellion and Not Actually Down For Egyptian Shenanigans (Sadie)