Since the release of The Red Pyramid, the first book to veer from Percy’s close first person narration, I’ve admired that Riordan is a risk-taker he does not confine himself to a single style, but tries something new with each series (or did so through the first three The Trials of Apollo returns to close first person): the Percy Jackson series are close first person, The Kane Chronicles are two first person narrations done as audio transcripts, The Heroes of Olympus are several close third narrators. The second switches to a third person limited from Annabeth’s POV. The first story is told from Carter’s first person. Ditto to The House of Hades, the paperback version of which hid the final crossover story, “The Crown of Ptolemy.” And I still don’t own an e-reader nor have I downloaded any app that would allow me to read e-books on my computer judge me. “The Staff of Serapis” where Annabeth Chase meets Sadie Kane was released in the paperback of The Mark of Athena, but I already had a hardcover copy of that book and could never justify creasing the spine of a paperback that I hadn’t purchased just to read the next short story. The end of the story promises a time when the two will need one another again.Īnd I waited on that second story for a long time. The two need to team up and fight the monster together to defeat it. In it, Carter Kane hunts a monster in the swamps of a Long Island park. That short story was every bit as exciting and well written as Riordan’s longer works. The first story, “The Son of Sobek,” I had read before in my paperback of The Serpent’s Shadow.

These stories marry two of his stories: Percy Jackson’s (which is found in Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Heroes of Olympus, and now continues in The Trials of Apollo) and the Kanes’ (from The Kane Chronicles). Demigods and Magicians collects in a hardcover volume three stories released as e-books and as short stories in paperback editions of some of Rick Riordan’s longer books.

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