The Throne of Fire
Cover of first edition
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| Author | Rick Riordan |
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| Illustrator | John Rocco |
| Country | United States |
| Series | The Kane Chronicles (bk 2) |
| Genre | Fantasy, adventure, children's novel |
| Publisher | Disney Hyperion |
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Publication date
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May 9, 2011 |
| Media type | Print, audiobook |
| Pages | 452 pp (first ed.) |
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| OCLC | 698117335 |
| LC Class | PZ7.R4829 Th 2011b |
| Preceded by | The Red Pyramid |
| Followed by | The Serpent's Shadow |
The Throne of Fire is a 2011 fantasy adventure novel written by Rick Riordan. It is the second novel in The Kane Chronicles series, which tells of the adventures of modern-day fourteen-year-old Carter Kane and his twelve-year-old sister - Sadie Kane, as they discover that they are descended from the ancient Egyptian pharaohs Narmer and Ramesses the Great. It was released on May 3, 2011. The book takes place roughly three months after the first book, The Red Pyramid. It is followed by the third and final book in the series, The Serpent's Shadow, which was released on May 1, 2012.
Five days remain until the spring equinox when Apophis, the serpent of Chaos, will escape his prison, devour the sun, and destroy all of human civilization. Only Ra, the absentee sun god, has the power to stop him. But first Ra must be woken by the teenage Kane siblings, Sadie and Carter, and their new trainees in magic, Jaz and Walt. They begin a globe-trotting quest to find the three scrolls of the Book of Ra, which contain the spells needed to wake him from his sleep.
The first scroll is hidden inside a statue in the Brooklyn Museum. The foursome sneaks past mortal alarm systems, magical wards and a late-night wedding to retrieve the scroll. Their cover is blown when the scroll bursts into flames, a griffin escapes from a frieze and evil spirits attack the wedding guests. Jaz imprisons the spirits in the Duat (a supernatural world that exists beneath the physical world) but uses too much magic and slips into a coma. One of the spirits tells Carter that his friend Zia will die if he continues the quest. Zia is a magician from the House of Life, which is an ancient society that dates to the time of the pharaohs.
The griffin is friendly and pulls the four friends onto a flying boat to reach Brooklyn House, an invisible mansion on the top of a factory. More trainees wait for them there. That night as she sleeps, Sadie's ba (soul) leaves her body and travels through the Duat to the Hall of Ages, the House of Life's headquarters located under the Cairo Airport. She sees Desjardins, the Chief Lector of the House of Life, discussing a plot to destroy Brooklyn House with a man named Vladimir Menshikov. Desjardins appears reluctant, as though he is under a spell. When Menshikov takes off his sunglasses, Sadie sees that his eyes are horribly scarred.
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