Buying The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, Book 1)

basically, he knew he could make more money no matter what he released after percy jackson so he wrote this poorly developed story and published it despite its serious issues in quality

don't buy this book, if you're really curious, then borrow it from the library, but this book was so boring, and I only finished it because I kept thinking, "but rick riordan's a good author, percy jackson was good, maybe this will get better." I finished the book and thought, "what a waste of my life." I shouldn't have been holding my breath, it NEVER got better. BORING 100% of the way. he lost his witty humor that was in the percy jackson books and replaced it with cheesy, cookie cutter jokes any amateur could've written. not once did I laugh when reading this. he uses gimmicks like romance to try and gain reader interest, but his attempt at writing romance was such a stark failure, I was embarrassed for him. honestly, the change in narration from sadie and carter would've been fine if he didn't keep have such a fake relationship between brother and sister--there was no authenticity, the banter between brother and sister was, again, gimmicky and stereotypical. unlike percy jackson, there was a serious lack of suspense and feeling of danger, and when riordan did try to build up some mystery, it was so weakly developed that it failed to make me care about the ending. I could've stopped reading the book at any point and not given a second thought, fine with not knowing the result in the end.

I thoroughly enjoyed watching riordan's writing develop from the first percy jackson book to the last. after the last percy jackson book, I expected his sophomore series to to be at least at that level of writing. NEVER did I think he would actually go backwards and write a book so utterly below his level of talent. I suppose, since the red pyramid is selling so well, he will continue this series because of he money it will make simply because he's riding off his percy jackson success, but I honestly hope, he quits this series asap, digs deep, and starts a whole different series--one that he can actually be proud to publish and follow up percy jackson.Get more detail about The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, Book 1).