After months of hiding, he is discovered by Max, a boy of similar age and parallel high integrity and courage, who is experiencing his own set of troubles learning a new language, moving to a new country, and being teased at school. Alone and broke in Europe, he takes things into his own hands to get to safety but ends up having to hide in the basement of a residential house. Two parallel stories, one of a Syrian boy from Aleppo fleeing war, and another of a white American boy, son of a NATO contractor, dealing with the challenges of growing up, intersect at a house in Brussels.Īhmed lost his father while crossing the Mediterranean. Readers pining for Percy Jackson will find new heroes in Carter and Sadie Kane, and that’s not all bad, even if the plot will seem familiar.
Kane, at the British Museum, unleashes mysterious forces that Carter and Sadie must stop. Lacking the more leisurely development of characters and settings of The Lightning Thief, this tale explodes into action from chapter one, when Dr. Here, it’s 14-year-old Carter Kane and his 12-year-old sister Sadie, African-American siblings, who must battle the gathering forces of chaos. In fact, fans of The Lightning Thief and its sequels will find themselves put through familiar paces here-short chapters with catchy titles, cheeky characters, a lightning-paced plot, humorous banter between characters, gods with mysterious connections to their human counterparts, young protagonists with powers not yet realized and a world in grave danger unless the humans get involved.
Now, Brooklyn is the base for Riordan’s new series involving Egyptian gods. Manhattan was the site of the climactic battle of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.
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