The Serpent's Shadow
core novel 2012 The Riordanverse
Record
| First published | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.27 (185,949 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| Page count | 406 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781423142027 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
Six months after the events of The Throne of Fire, Carter and Sadie Kane travel to Dallas to meet with the magicians of the 51st Nome as they confront an impending catastrophe: within days, the chaos serpent Apophis is prophesied to rise, swallow the sun, and unmake the world. When their first attempt to avert this fails and the Dallas Nome is destroyed, the siblings pursue a more elaborate plan, which sends them searching for a magical shadow box tied to the boy pharaoh Tutankhamun and consulting the god Thoth about the link between shadows and statues. Along the way they uncover betrayals within their own ranks, including rebel magicians who have allied themselves with Apophis, and must call on a range of Egyptian gods and their human hosts for aid.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Riordanverse
- Series: The Kane Chronicles core; position 3 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Rick Riordan
Notes
- From the series record (The Kane Chronicles): Clean linear trilogy, Egyptian-mythology continuity, dual first-person narrators (Carter and Sadie Kane) throughout.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Kane Chronicles: position 3 of 3: previous The Throne of Fire (2011)
- Internal chronology, within The Riordanverse: position 8 of 25: previous The Titan's Curse (2007) · next The Ship of the Dead (2017)
Sources
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