Just to the north, a line of cars inched along the Montauk Highway-vacationers escaping the crowds in the city to enjoy the crowds in the Hamptons. The area looked a bit like the Nile Delta back in Egypt, except here the wetlands were surrounded on both sides by residential neighborhoods with row after row of gray-roofed houses. I couldnвЂ™t see much below us-just a brown river glittering in the hot summer air, winding through swamp grass and clumps of gnarled trees until it emptied into Moriches Bay. After a couple of hours on patrol, he shrieked, вЂњFREEEAAAK!вЂќ and banked hard to the left, circling over a green marshy inlet between two subdivisions.ДЇreak shivered and squawked, whipping his barbed tail nervously. Unless you want to get shredded, itвЂ™s really better to ride in the boat.ДЇreak had a good nose for magic. If youвЂ™re wondering why I didnвЂ™t just ride on FreakвЂ™s back, imagine two hummingbird-like wings beating faster and more powerfully than helicopter blades.

I hitched our flying reed boat to Freak, my pet griffin, and we spent the morning buzzing around the South Shore looking for signs of trouble. But they were all at the First Nome, in Egypt, for a weeklong training session on controlling cheese demons (yes, theyвЂ™re a real thing believe me, you donвЂ™t want to know), so I was on my own. Normally my sister, Sadie, or some of our other initiates from Brooklyn House wouldвЂ™ve come with me. When mortals start raising the alarm, you know itвЂ™s time to check things out. One reporter even called it the Long Island Swamp Monster. Then the local news started reporting that a large creature had been sighted in the ponds and marshes near the Montauk Highway-a creature that was eating the wildlife and scaring the locals. Our scryers had been sensing magical disturbances in the area for several weeks. WeвЂ™re like the police for Ancient Egyptian supernatural forces, making sure they donвЂ™t cause too much havoc in the modern world.ДЄnyway, on this particular day I was tracking down a rogue monster on Long Island. Just a lot of them-but that kind of goes with the territory, since IвЂ™m a magician in the House of Life. IвЂ™m Carter Kane-part-time high school freshman, part-time magician, full-time worrier about all the Egyptian gods and monsters who are constantly trying to kill me. The kid with the glowing sword only made my day worse. I highly recommend it to fan-girls (and well, everyone else) everywhere who have read Percy Jackson and Kane Chronicles.GETTING EATEN BY A GIANT CROCODILE was bad enough. A great quick read in the PJ/KC/HoO world. This book lives up to everything I ever dreamed, and more. To Sum it Up:В Can you say PURE AWESOMENESS? The humor, the action, the ingenuity, the sarcasm. Hey, A girl can hope, right?Д¬ontent Advisory: UmmвЂ¦ Demigod swearing? вЂњOh my godsвЂќ, вЂњHoly HeraвЂќ, etc. PleasepleasePLEASE tell me this means that Egypt with clash with Rome and Greece in the final showdown in HoO book 5! Please! But yes, he definitely left loose threads for a sequel, and IвЂ™m just hoping that is a clever way of incorporating them into HoO. вЂњHopefully IвЂ™ll be able to continue that story line, so you can find out what happens with Percy and Carter next, though as I said, a lot of other irons in the fire. And IвЂ™m 99% sure I know whoвЂ™s gonna be closing the Doors of Death from the Hades side.ДЄnyway, the ending of Son of Sobek? Beautiful perfection! Rick stated: Their confusion, their suspicions, their realizationsвЂ¦ Holy Hephestaus, this was a fantastic short story! I wasnвЂ™t as impressed with the first chapter of House of Hades (at the end of this e-book), but I still have high hopes for the book. Their meeting was perfectly executed, and I just love the realism of everything. Er, well, my whole life since May 5th, 2010. Can you really ask for anything better? Reading that short story was the half hour IвЂ™ve been waiting for my entire life.

It completely and totally satisfied my innerВ (LetвЂ™s be honest here, guys) fan girl. Includes a sneak peek chapter from HOUSE OF HADES, Book Four in the Heroes of Olympus series.

And their meeting isnвЂ™t exactly friendly. Summary:В In this audio e-book short story narrated by Rick Riordan, Carter Kane is investigating rumored sightings of a monster on Long Island when he runs into something else: a mysterious boy named Percy Jackson.

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