Review: #114
Title: The Throne of Fire
Series: The Kane Chronicles - 2nd book
Author: Rick Riordan
Read Before: no
My Comments: Clearly a better book than the first
one (which wasn't too bad in its own right), and it got interesting pretty much
straight away. It wasn't as ‘fixed’ to a
structure like the first book in that it got the protagonists going one place
and then redirected to another, it has that, but it is not as repetitive (it
helps that the book is shorter too). The
story is not too bad, but I kind of get the feel that I could have not read the
first book and still get as much of an enjoyment as I did now, which can be a
good thing but it doesn't make the series as ‘connected’. One good thing is that it feels less like the
style of writing in Percy Jackson and more like its own work. A bit of a flaw was that it didn't build up
properly, throughout the whole book the excitement (so to speak) was level,
there wasn't much build up or revelations (or promises of revelations) to keep
you going and excite you. The climax was
disappointing, no big reveal or twist or battle, probably the main flaw in my
opinion but it is still a good book to have a shot at reading.
Rating: 7.5/10