Life, Love & Literature

The Red Pyra­mid by Rick Riordan

There are not that many books that I can read aloud to the boys and we all equally enjoy but this was one.
Per­fect bal­ance of action and adven­ture for Jack with­out being too scary for Sam.
One thing I liked is that the book never strays into realms of bad lan­guage or ‘adult themes’, which with Jack read­ing books which are often aimed at kids quite a bit older than him is a con­stant con­cern.
No it is not qual­ity lit­er­a­ture but it is a thump­ing good yarn and that is good enough for me.
Oh and it had Egypt­ian gods what more do you need. In fact it was very well researched and we all learned a lot about Ancient Egypt from it.

Related Posts :

Boob day

Catch­ing Up

Sofa Days

Posted in Book Review, Book Review by Sarah, Fantasy, Fiction, Older Children

Tags: egypt

3 Responses to “The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan”

1. sarah says:

   July 14, 2011 at 11:52 am

   This was a really good book review Sarah
   Jack

   Reply
2. Lisa says:

   July 22, 2011 at 9:13 pm

   Hey Sarah thanks for the tip, I think I will try and per­suade Jamie and Har­vey to read this

   Reply
3. sarah says:

   July 23, 2011 at 4:57 am

   Lisa, if you’ve never read them the Percy Jack­son series by the same author is really good fun too

   Reply