For my summer reading book I read The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan. Before beginning I would like to note this book is based around Egyptian mythology. The story begins with the two main characters Carter and Sadie Kane who are visiting a British museum containing the Rosetta stone. they are with their father Julius Kane and suddenly while they are observing the Rosetta stone it opens a portal through to the place where the gods are and their dad gets sealed inside a coffin by a ancient evil god he accidentally released. Later they are at their grandparents home when the police show up and explain how they must leave the country by the next day or the police will take them. Then their uncle they didn't know about comes to take them back to his house to safety. While there they learn of many ancient and magical and strange things.
Their Uncle Amos Kane leaves to go do something important and after he …show more content…
but before they make it there Serquet appears again and she fights with Zia Rashid who was leading them to the portal. They were beginning to lose and in a desperate attempt to escape they ran into the portal which lead to the house of life which would be safe for the time being. It was safe Because they are under the watch of powerful magicians and the portal was closed. they were brought here to be trained as magicians and while their they learn that they are the hosts of two different gods, Horus was in Carter, and Isis was in Sadie. During one of the nights they were there Sadie wandered around learned about what happened to start Sets evil reign in the beginning. Not too soon after the chief Lector Iskander had died and he had been keeping them safe, But once that happened his replacement Desjardins wanted to get rid of Sadie and Carter because he saw them as a threat so before training was finished they had to flee