A review by octavia_cade
The Kane Chronicles Survival Guide by Rick Riordan

3.0

A step up from the other tie-in to this series, the Brooklyn House Magician's Manual, because it actually goes into some of the history and mythology behind the ancient Egyptian gods and the culture in which they were created. In marginally more depth, anyway. It's still a very thin treatment - this is more two and a half stars, rounding up to three - and as with BHMM I struggle to see the point. Riordan has clearly got an audience here: this series is really popular with kids, so I can't help but wonder if he couldn't have leveraged that popularity to turn this into something rather more informative than it is. Because right now, there's nothing in here that isn't in the series proper, and there's a lot of repetition even within this single book. Basically, it's struggling to be average.