The Serpent's Shadow (ASB)

Recently I started reading the book The Serpent’s Shadow by one of my favorite authors Rick Riordan . This book is about how Apophis (The giant snake of Chaos) is threatening that he will plunge the world in eternal darkness. So Carter and Sadie try to do something no magician has ever done - defeat Apophis. There is only one hope to defeat him it is to find an ancient spell. Will they find it or get killed?

It was easy to get sucked up into this book because the author builds lots of suspense. An example would be when the author writes that they have to go on a hunt to find an ancient spell.

The thing that made it suspenseful was if they were going to find it or not.

The author also creates lots detail.For example: “In the middle of the chamber, on a coffin shaped pedestal, stood a life-sized statue of the Apis Bull. It was made of dark stone - basalt, maybe - but painted so skillfully it looked alive. Its eyes seemed to follow me. Its hide glistened black except for a small white diamond on the front of its chest, and over its back was a gold blanket cut and embroidered to resemble hawk’s wings. Between its horns sat a frisbee of gold - a sun disc crown. Beneath that, sticking out of the bull’s forehead like a curly unicorn horn, was a rearing cobra”. When I read that I got a picture in my mind.

This is a powerful story which made me think about courage and overcoming challenges. When have you ever shown courage or have overcome challenges? Maybe you have read other books which have a similar theme. If so I would like to hear about them.