The Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan

So did you like Percy Jackson?  I did.  Even better, this series is only 3 books.  What happened to just having a good three books in a series.  For some reason authors seem to need to have at least seven and then they keep adding onto their series with other similar series.  Riordan left this series open for another series to take off on it and I won't be surprised to see another set coming in the future.

The Kane Chronicles reminded me of the Percy Jackson series mixed with the 39 Clues series.  Percy Jackson teaches you a lot about Greek and Roman mythology while The Kane Chronicles teaches you about Egyptian gods.  Gods and godlings/magicians must work with the gods in order to save the world.  You have two young children whose parents die and they are faced with finding out that their parents are not who they thought they were and now they must travel the world discovering their identities and finding out about a secret world that normal mortals have not clue about.  Yeah, a typical scenario of a lot of books.  It is funny how the more you read the more you realize most books follow a typical pattern with little deviations here and there.  There's an AP book Blake teaches out of that talks all about that.  Maybe some day I will glance at it.

So back to the series.  We have Carter and Sadie whose mother died years before and the two siblings are separated.  Sadie lives in London with her grandparents and Carter stays with his dad they travel the world since their father deals with Egyptian artifacts.  One night Carter and Sadie find themselves in a museum with their father who releases a bunch of gods and get possessed by the god Osiris and is captured in a coffin.  All of a sudden Carter and Sadie find out they belong to a powerful line of magicians that are perfect for housing gods, which Carter and Sadie find out they are doing.  Carter is possessed by Horus and Sadie is possessed by Isis.  In the series Carter and Sadie have to control their powers and work with their respective hosts channeling their power in order to save their father and then save the world from Apophis.  Unfortunately for Carter and Sadie, it is against magician law to use the power of the gods so they are hunted by magicians for breaking the law and then have very little support to fight Apophis in the end.  Somehow they must unite the magicians and gods to work together in order to save the world.

A fun series that I enjoyed reading and would recommend it to others.