“The Staff of Serapis” where Annabeth Chase meets Sadie Kane was released in the paperback of The Mark of Athena, but I already had a hardcover copy of that book and could never justify creasing the spine of a paperback that I hadn’t purchased just to read the next short story. The end of the story promises a time when the two will need one another again.Īnd I waited on that second story for a long time. The two need to team up and fight the monster together to defeat it. In it, Carter Kane hunts a monster in the swamps of a Long Island park. That short story was every bit as exciting and well written as Riordan’s longer works.
The first story, “The Son of Sobek,” I had read before in my paperback of The Serpent’s Shadow. These stories marry two of his stories: Percy Jackson’s (which is found in Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Heroes of Olympus, and now continues in The Trials of Apollo) and the Kanes’ (from The Kane Chronicles). Demigods and Magicians collects in a hardcover volume three stories released as e-books and as short stories in paperback editions of some of Rick Riordan’s longer books.
