Hello everyone!
So every once in a while, as you know, I'll return to oldie but goldie books that I've either already read but never reviewed, or that I really, really enjoy and just HAVE to read again.
There are some authors that just have a grip on me like that.
And while I'm slowly packing and preparing for my vacation, I'm also gathering up books that I think I'll enjoy reading down on the beach, which is always an exciting prospect!
But for tonight's blog post, I decided on a short novella-ish type of book that was initially released as an audio recording and features some fan favourites from two different series that everyone has been DYING to see cross over.
Rick Riordan is kind of good at listening like that.
The Son of Sobek is the first in a short trilogy which features some characters that we know and love and mentions others, and of course there's always room for more where these guys are running around.
It's mythology, after all.
Now to The Son of Sobek!
A cross-over between Greek and Egyptian mythology, this short story features none other than our very own Percy Jackson who runs into Carter Kane in this one.
Don't know who each of them is?
Percy is a Greek Demigod, a son of Poseidon, who just so happens to have saved the world once (or twice) from total annihilation. He's also probably the most powerful Demigod of his time and tends to make the girls swoon even while he's happily in a relationship with Annabeth Chase.
Carter, meanwhile, is the Blood of Pharaohs, a combination of two powerful ancient Egyptian lines that give him extraordinary magical potential and make him heir to the Throne of Egypt on Earth, not that he's taken it. He, too, has kind of saved the world from total annihilation once (or twice), and is more than happy to test out relationship waters with Zia Rashid.
What happens when these two meet and greet?
The Son of Sobek covers that, and more.
We've had mentions of the Egyptians in Brooklyn seeing some weird stuff happening over Manhattan on occasion (like, say, a random cameo of a flying horse that's none other than Blackjack, who was probably trying to get Percy somewhere he needed to be at the time), and Carter's uncle has already said that Manhattan has 'its own troubles' and its own Gods.
Yeah, old Thunderbritches above the Empire State Building definitely agrees with THAT.
Anyway, Carter and Percy meet for the first time when a monster goes on a rampage in Long Island - and the monster turns out to be a gigantic ass crocodile on the loose.
Carter is trying to figure out how to tackle it when he sees Percy fighting the thing, but the two boys don't really see eye to eye to begin with.
I mean, Percy gets kind of punched by magic and Carter gets drenched, because boys will be boys, but you know.
It takes them some duking out to figure that they're on the same side, and that the monster is an Egyptian concoction that Carter might figure out how to unravel if he can just distract it for long enough so it doesn't eat people.
Not to worry, says Percy, I'm pretty good at distractions.
Which, to be fair, he is.
So off Percy goes, while Carter, as per agreement, is going to try and grab this necklace off the huge crocodile, which is giving it the magical boost it needs to trample things underfoot and generally make like a Jurassic World reject.
It takes them some time - and some demolition and house reno while they're at it - but they eventually manage, through teamwork, to unclasp the necklace which turns the huge croc into a little baby croc that probably escaped from a zoo somewhere.
But this is an alarming sight, because Carter says the necklace shouldn't have been used in the first place - and Percy's got a bad feeling about this.
So the two guys decide they should stay in touch, and Carter places a hieroglyph on Percy's hand that can be used only once, but it'll bring Carter to him no matter where he is, seeing as using mobile phones is kind of a hazard when you're doing magic or attempting to send monsters back to Tartarus.
Then they part ways, and Carter thinks to himself the Greeks are kinda cool - but that the necklace means an old friend of his, who escaped during his own adventures of trying to reinstate Ra as rightful king of the Egyptian gods, is probably back, and cooking up more than a lot of mischief along the way.
Short, sweet and to the point, this successfully merges Carter's humour with Percy's dry sarcasm, and the two guys make for a kick-ass team when they get over their differences.
Plus, they're our favourite protagonists! Of course we wanted to see them meet.
So what's going on and what'll happen next, you ask?
Tune in next week.
xx
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