The Throne of Fire

I wish this series was as good as Percy Jackson, but it's just not. The main thing that bothers me is the regular switching of narrators, particularly because I really still do not like Sadie. I also found the whole thing a bit anticlimactic because the reader is constantly reminded that the kids are making a recording in the hopes that someone will find it, that all the events are true, “stop interrupting me, Carter,” etc. etc. Since you know they're going to pull through in the end, it's pretty pointless to expend the energy to worry about them. Along those same lines, I don't think Riordan kills off enough characters in this series. I don't want people to die just for the sake of the story, but I think, realistically, more characters would meet their demise in the dangerous world they live in.