The Throne of Fire
core novel 2011 The Riordanverse
Record
| First published | 2011 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.18 (233,694 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| Page count | 452 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781423140566 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
Roughly three months after the events of the first Kane Chronicles novel, siblings Carter and Sadie Kane, who have discovered they descend from a line of Egyptian pharaohs and magicians, take on a new mission for the House of Life: locating the three scrolls of the Book of Ra in order to wake the aging sun god and prevent the chaos serpent Apophis from destroying the world. Their search leads them to perilous locations including the Brooklyn Museum, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, and the Valley of the Golden Mummies, where they face divine guardians and hostile spirits. Complicating their quest is Vladimir Menshikov, a magician who has willingly bound himself to Apophis's service, along with signs that not everyone within the House of Life can be trusted.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Riordanverse
- Series: The Kane Chronicles core; position 2 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 2 of 3: previous The Red Pyramid (2010) · next The Serpent's Shadow (2012)
- Internal chronology, within The Riordanverse: position 5 of 25: previous The Sea of Monsters (2006) · next The Hammer of Thor (2016)
Sources
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