First things first, Rick Riordan is the author of the Percy Jackson series BUT this book has nothing to do with that series at all. Instead of ancient greek mythology this is egyptian mythology. Also if you aren't really familiar with egyptian mythology you might want to study up on it or you might get bored or confused with this book. It explains most things but you would be able to understan it sooo much better if you knew your egyptian mythology. It is also kind of cool how the author wrote it. Two people tell the story about themselves and switch off but start from where the other person ended.
Ok so the two main characters in this book are Carter and Sadie Kane (brother and sister). Carter is 14 and lives and travels the world with his dad. His dad is a brilliant egyptologist and his job requires him to travel the world. Their mom died when he was only eight years old and he and so they were separated. Carter went to live with his dad while Sadie, who is 12 unfortunately had to live with their grandparents in London. Sadie and Carter are only allowed to, see each other twice a year. Once in the Summer and once in the Winter. So as the winter day arrives their father takes them both to a museum in London and doesn't let them know why they are going there (usually they do some super cool thing because they only have one day together). Anyway so they arrive at the museum and their dad is acting like somebody is following them. So they get in the museum and their dad goes and takes the Rosetta Stone (a stone that is supposed to be like the stone of languages). Carter and Sadie are very surprised and don't know why their dad just took the Rosetta Stone from the display case. Just imagine if your dad did that. So anyway all of the sudden he starts to summon some egyptian gods which is very forbidden within the people who know egyptian mythology is "true". Then all of a sudden one god appears and puts their dad in a coffin (he isn't dead by the way) and pulls him underneath the ground with himself.
Carter and Sadie don't know what just happened because they tried to stop him but were knocked out. As they wake up they find themselves in the museum office and are eventually taken to Sadie's house. They really think their dad is dead and that is the closest family member they had. They will do anything and I really mean anything to get him back...
I really thought this book was pretty good. It is kind of cool to imagine Egyptian mythology is real. It also would be very weird to have it be real. Also this is one of those books that really follow the Heroes Journey. I noticed that it was the heroes journey right after I read the second page. I still think it was an ok book. It was pretty slow and confusing in the first five to ten chapters. I don't think this is a "must read" but I do think it is a "should" read. Also I wish they changed they beggining because I wish Rick Riordan wouldn't have let the Dad "disappear" in the beggining because the kids didn't know what was going on and they didn't know who their dad really was. It could've been a lot better of a book. B+
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