Jayson’s Reviews > The Throne of Fire > Status Update

Notes:
(1) "Then a lot of things happened at once."
- Well, that's every Riordan battle scene in a nutshell.
(2) "I ran my fingers over the title: "Blackley’s Survey of the Sciences for First-Year College, Twelfth Edition." Then I opened the book. On the inside cover, a name was written in lovely cursive: "Ruby Kane."
- That's a typo. Unless Ruby got married as a college freshman, her name would have been Ruby Faust.

Notes:
(1) The Bes/Tawaret subplot is one of the few things I remember from my first read of the series. Not for any positive reasons, but because of how cringy and fan-fiction if felt.
- This re-read hasn't shifted my opinion at all.
(2) Tawaret: "I also protected mothers giving birth—"
Carter: "Because you’re pregnant?"
Tawaret: "No. Why would you think that?"
- Has Carter never seen a hippo? They're all like that.

Notes:
(1) Please don't give Kevin R. Free more accents to do. His English accent is bad enough, but his Russian accent is new levels of horrible.
- Accents aside, he also can't pronounce Pikachu properly. I mean, this was 2011, how did people not know how to pronounce Pikachu?
(2) So, turns out that Walt and Jaz weren't actually a couple.
- Still, everyone assumed they were, so my previous point about Carter stands.

Notes:
(1) Bes: "Two young people traveling alone through Egypt… a boy and a girl. It'll look strange."
Sadie: "I’ll just say Walt's my brother."
- Ah, the old Abraham and Sarah trick. The thing to do whilst travelling through Egypt, apparently.
- And people call me crazy when I suggest there might be a slight incestuous undercurrent to this series. The guy Sadie has the hots for, she wants to pretend is her brother.

Notes:
(1) Carter pushing Sadie into a relationship with Walt makes sense, since her other object of affection is Anubis, god of funerals. Though, it's still awkward for a number of reasons.
- Walt already has a girlfriend, Jaz, who's in a coma. So, Carter's being awful scummy to her.
- Carter is, admittedly, living vicariously through Walt, since Zia treated him like Sadie treats Walt. Problem is Sadie's his sister.

Notes:
(1) Liz: "Isn't there a more polite term we're supposed to use nowadays? Like…little person, or vertically challenged, or—"
Bes: "I'm not going to call myself the god of vertically challenged people, I’m a dwarf!"
- I agree, dwarves are creatures of myth, like giants.
- Also, it makes no sense for height to determine a person's patron god. Sure, being short's an attribute, but it's fixed and can't be enhanced.

Notes:
(1) Like "The Red Pyramid," I have virtually no memory of this book.
- I wouldn't be able to tell you what happened here or which supporting characters make appearances.
- Frankly, I just finished "The Red Pyramid" and I'd have a hard time summarizing the plot.
(2) So, "The Throne of Fire"? Hmm, yet another MG/YA adventure where the title's about things burning.
- Catching Fire, Goblet of Fire, Burning Maze...