Allegiant! Finally!

Hey Hey HEY! I just finished The Serpent's Shadow and the ending was great in that book. Just don't ask me about what the ending is because iIwill NEVER tell you no matter how hard you try to persuade me too. Trust me, it's worth not knowing it before you read it. Sadly, that's the end of the Kane Chronicles. So no more of Carter and Sadie video recording their adventures of bringing order to Earth and destroying chaos (They already did that! That's kind of why it ended as a trilogy and The Serpent's Shadow was the last book!)But guess what!

I'm finally in the last book in the Divergent Trilogy!

Don't speak too soon about what happens in this book, because I got some news about this book. The good news is that I am going to finish this trilogy and won't be stressed out when I make anymore blogs. The bad news is that this book is the WORST book for Divergent fans, so I would take a break and read another book after reading Insurgent and before reading Allegiant, which I am reading right now. This was what I did, and now, I am ready to face this book, whether it will make me rate this the best book ever, or will disappoint me and make me hate this.

Also, I always wondered what the books would be like in the view of another character other than Tris. She was the person who was in first person, and everything about the book was in her perspective, which could potentially make the whole story biased because you can only read the story in one person's ideas or perspective instead of hearing what other characters think how this story is to people. Well, this book has Tobias's perspective along with Tris's perspective. Now you can know the story based on another person's thoughts. But... this still isn't good enough because there are only two characters narrating the story instead of many characters. This actually reminds me of the Kane Chronicles trilogy, since in those books, Carter and Sadie do all of the narrating and in this book, Tris and Tobias do all the narrating. 

On the bright side, the book isn't third-person, or else it would be He said... or She said... or They said... because that would make the book kind of annoying and it wouldn't really bring the characters 'to life' since no one knows what is going on in the characters' minds or what are they thinking about what is happening around them. 

Now let cut to the chase and talk about what is happening in the book. NOT! But I still read some of it, I'll just wait until I read over 1/2 of the book to talk about what is happening and what crazy plan they will do after the "factionless take over the government" HINT HINT.



By the way, Divergent came out in theaters. So watch it if you really like the Divergent trilogy.

Here's the trailer

The Serpent's Shadow

Think about this for a second. You and your sibling (brother if you're a girl and sister if you're a boy) lived seperately because your parents divorces many months ago. You finally meey with your siblings somewhere like a museum. Then you realize that you have many abilities that could help you and possibly help the others. Your dad finally finds your mon somewhere in Europe and they finally get back together. Don't get excited about this for long and think that the story's over...

...Because here's the catch, the moment your family reunites and goes back to where you met your sibling, something chaotic happens in that place and your parents get vaporized and they will never come back. How would you feel? You'd feel sad and angry about this, right? But then you succeed in getting revenge and here's what you find out from a friend.

THERE IS A CHANCE TO BRING YOUR MOM BACK. ("Sorry, the dad's dead for good")

So far, Carter and Sadie have gone throughout this scenario all the way from The Red Pyramid to The Serpent's Shadow, which I am reading right now. Carter and Sadie are now left with their uncle Amos, Zia (Fire magician and Carter's crush), Anubis (Sadie's Boyfriend and the God of Death), Thoth (The God of all Knowledge), Horus (The God of war and future king of Gods), Isis (The Goddess of life), Walt (a creationist and Sadie's crush), and the students of the First Nome. To learn more about the book and the trilogy, Click HERE.

The Khopesh Sheath represents Carter , which is a curved sword because Carter was born to fight in his later years to save the world and this weapon was his first choice when he was in combat. This was also the weapon that the Ancient Egyptian warriors used in combat, and this book is like The Heroes of Olympus series, except it has Egyptian gods instead.





Horus would be the same, except he was born as the God of war, just like Ares in Greek mythology. Carter could channel power and get more magic from Horus because he was a resource of magic to him and they both had almost everything in common. But what would represent him more is the ankh because it has the Symbol of Horus on it. Also, Carter's amulet had the same ankh as the picture, and he used it to call Horus or to channel his power. Horus was the strongest god in Ancient Egypt, and whenever enemies struck, the eye would protect the wearer and destroy those enemies, just like an extreme warrior would.

A shield would Represent Sadie because she was into both restoration and combat magic and her magic was normally used to block attacks from enemies or protect her friends from grave danger. Every time she and Carter were in battle. Sadie would summon force fields or other spells that were able to deflect any other spells back at the attacker. Also, she knows spells that were able to restore an area or a region back to its original form and to remove all signs of chaos in that area or region.





A Sycamore Tree would represent Isis because this is one of the symbols that were used to identify her back in Ancient Egypt. Also, Isis was the goddess of fertility, motherhood, and magic, which would ultimately make her the Goddess of Life. Her magic was mainly based around life, nature, creation, and hospitality. But she managed to bring in some chaos into her spells. One spell, which was Ma'at, a spell that brought back order to everything in the area of the caster, has the potential to kill or severely hurt the caster. This was what happened to Sadie every time she tried to use this spell or any other chaotic spells. 

These were just the prime characters that were in this book because the story is revolved around Carter and Sadie, and Horus and Isis were the ones that have brought them to this state and this book. To learn about these gods, Click HERE.

Why don't you think of some symbols that would fit these people and gods that I have mentioned? Don't worry, I'll symbolize and talk about them myself as well, I just won't be doing this now. Maybe Later.

Oh... Leave the symbolization stuff in the comments below if you think of any.

I have two favorite books, but can't decide which one is better than the other. The first one was The Son of Neptune from the Heroes of Olympus series, my other one is Divergent from the Divergent series. These two have been the best books I have read, even though I read The Son of Neptune two years ago and read Divergent over the summer that just passed. They both are action packed, have extreme events, and suspense happens very often in these two books.

 

The Son of Neptune was written by Rick Riordan and published on October 4th, 2011. This was the 2nd book in the Heroes of Olympus. It recieved 3 awards and was put in the #1 NY Times Bestsellers list. What happens in this book is after 3 demons were trying to hunt down percy, he ends up in Camp Jupiter, a place similar to that of Camp Half Blood. The big difference was that Camp Jupiter was Roman (Jupiter is the Roman king of the gods), and that Camp Half Blood was Greek. Percy tries to get help from the people of Camp Jupiter, who didn't respect him because he a descendant of Poseidon, to defeat the demons that were trying to kill him, and will eventually kill everyone in the camp. The story would just go on with battles and rescues from the people at Camp Half Blood. This book was completely action packed and had a lot of suspense because people had a good chance of dying unexpectedly all throughout this story. For more info, click HERE.

 

Divergent was written by Veronica Roth and published in May 1st, 2012. I don't know what awards this book received, but it should get awards for being an amazing book. This is the 1st book in the Divergent series. It starts with a girl named Beatrice Prior as Abnegation. In her test, the result taker tells her that she is divergent, which means that she has traits that fir into more than one faction, she fits into Abnegation, Dauntless, and Erudite. She chooses her faction and she goes through many painful tests during her initiation, but she still had to hide her divergence. The rest of the book is how she goes through the initiation and her hiding her divergence. For more info click HERE.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why don't you guys try to decide which one is better, or at least help me pick one to be the best book for me. Leave your choices and reasons, if you read both of these book, in the comments below.