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By Tiarra (geek-life.com)
As the author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, Rick Riordan stumbled upon a recipe for success when it comes to children’s books. His highly-successful series of Percy books, along with the movie adaptation of the first book, The Lightning Thief, have proved his success and his story-creating ability. Now, Riordan has started a new series, The Kane Chronicles, and its first book, The Red Pyramid, does not disappoint.
The aforementioned formula for success involves kids – tweenagers, really – that are not just normal human beings; but they don’t know that they’re special until something miraculous happens – and it’s usually something life-threatening as well. The formula worked great for Percy Jackson, who told readers about his adventures after finding out he was a demigod, the son of the Greek god Poseidon.
This time around, Riordan’s Kane Chronicles has two protagonists, Carter Kane, age 14, and Sadie Kane, age 12. The book is a “transcribed” version of Carter and Sadie telling their story on tape, which they have sent out into the world to look for others like them: blood of pharaohs, descendents of the ancient Egyptian royal blood lines that have the potential to become powerful magicians – and maybe even host Egyptian gods.
read the rest via Book Review: The Red Pyramid.
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By Andrew Hoffman (2012DECEPTION) — Not to be confused with propaganda from the History Channel, 2012: Doomsday is the film I use the term loosely that attempts to combine Christianity and 2012 disaster theories. It is unwatchably bad, with the most compelling dilemma raised in the film being whether the acting is even worse than the writing, or vice versa. Sharon K. Gilbert recently called the film “pseudo-Christian claptrap,” which is certainly an apt, although perhaps overly kind, description.
