Teens Write Reviews

These are all book and music reviews written by teens and librarians in our community. Click on the titles to find the items in the Sarasota County Library Catalog.

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Oct 03
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The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan So let’s say you’ve read The Percy Jackson series by the wonderful Rick Riordan and you really enjoyed them but you’re looking for something darker, more mysterious, something a little more… Egyptian. ‘The Red Pyramid’ delivers this and so much more within its perfectly paced pages of death-defying adventure and magical intrigue. The Egyptian gods are certainly not as forgiving as the Greek gods of Olympus, and Riordan has really done his homework describing the gods and their personalities very, very well. And Carter and Sadie Kane, our brother-sister protagonist team, are well developed from the start and develop over the course of the book into brave heroes that you will want to cheer for. What I also especially liked was how the story was told through the eyes of both Carter and Sadie, taking turns in narrating every other chapter. The best part is you don’t miss a beat when the narrator changes; that is the adept skill of Riordan. That, and the fact that he can write with the mind of a teenager but with a pen of an accomplished storyteller, (which never ceases to amaze me). I can hardly contain my enthusiasm for this book or my greed for the next book in The Kane Chronicle series: ‘The Throne of Fire’. - Melissa

The Red Pyramid
by Rick Riordan

So let’s say you’ve read The Percy Jackson series by the wonderful Rick Riordan and you really enjoyed them but you’re looking for something darker, more mysterious, something a little more… Egyptian. ‘The Red Pyramid’ delivers this and so much more within its perfectly paced pages of death-defying adventure and magical intrigue. The Egyptian gods are certainly not as forgiving as the Greek gods of Olympus, and Riordan has really done his homework describing the gods and their personalities very, very well. And Carter and Sadie Kane, our brother-sister protagonist team, are well developed from the start and develop over the course of the book into brave heroes that you will want to cheer for. What I also especially liked was how the story was told through the eyes of both Carter and Sadie, taking turns in narrating every other chapter. The best part is you don’t miss a beat when the narrator changes; that is the adept skill of Riordan. That, and the fact that he can write with the mind of a teenager but with a pen of an accomplished storyteller, (which never ceases to amaze me). I can hardly contain my enthusiasm for this book or my greed for the next book in The Kane Chronicle series: ‘The Throne of Fire’.

- Melissa