Books 28-29: Rick Riordan is a genius!

I can imagine that when you've created a book series after awhile you'd get tired of writing about the characters. But I must say that Rick Riordan is a genius and should keep the stories coming if he possibly can.  My kids and I started reading his Percy Jackson series quite awhile ago.  We used them as read alouds  and truly enjoyed them. (As a side note while the 2 movies that have since come out of Percy Jackson and the Lightening Thief and Sea of Monsters are good on their own they are not near as good as the books, and don't really follow the books.) Anyway, after reading the Percy Jackson series we started reading the Kane Chronicles, and then also the Heroes of Olympus books.  All are great reads for kids as well as adults. 
The two books I'm reviewing in this post are The  Son of Sobek and The Staff of Serapis, both are short stories that we downloaded-and paid for, which means I really wanted to read them since usually I focus on the FREE books!

 In The Son of Sobek we get the first ever cross over of the Egyptian and Greek series.  In this book Carter Kane, from the Kane Chronicles, is trying to protect a neighborhood from something that has been terrorizing the lake near it. He isn't sure what he's facing, but armed with just his staff and his magician's bag he heads out.  In the midst of discovering what it is Percy Jackson shows up, he too is wondering what has been going on in the area.  They both are startled to find others with powers that they did not know about.  As they struggle to determine how they each could live close to each other and know nothing about each other, they also struggle to determine who the other person is and if they are a threat or an ally.  On top of it they now have a monster to fight and must decide if they can trust each other to work together to rid the neighborhood of threat.
The book was wonderful, it was a very quick read and certainly left me wishing there would be more cross over stories.

I'd give this book 5 stars!

  In the Staff of Serapis Annabeth, from the Percy Jackson series, comes in contact with Sadie from the Kane Chronicles.  This is also an exciting book that allows these characters to try to come to terms with their being other people with special powers living near each other without ever knowing it.  Their task this time is to determine who created the 3 headed monster they are facing, why it was created and how can they possibly stop it.  Will they work together and trust each other, or fight against each other.  One choice will allow them to win, one choice will cause them to fail. Which choice will they make? 
The story again was short, but definitely a good story.  With both of these books I found myself wanting the author to start a whole new series of joint effort stories.  Hopefully, he will do just that.

Great read! 5 stars!