Performance Task: Book Review
The novel isn’t like most of Uncle Rick’s (Rick Riordan) work. You see in this book, the main protagonist dies on the first chapters. I guess living characters are getting too mainstream for Uncle Rick. And this new series is also related to Uncle Rick’s books since the main character, Magnus Chase is the cousin of Annabeth Chase, daughter of the Greek goddess Athena. The main character and love interest of Percy Jackson in The Percy Jackson and the Olympians series and the Heroes of Olympus series.
Magnus Chase and the gods of Asgard : The sword of Summer is an action, fiction, adventure story. Like Uncle Rick’s previous other book series where the setting revolves around Greek mythology in the PJO and HoO series and Egyptian mythology in the Kane …show more content…
One was a dwarf and one was an elf.
Then one day, he’s tracked down by a man he’s never met—a man his mother claimed was dangerous. Then reveals he was a demigod, a child of both mortal and god, which he was skeptical at first but then accepts it later. Anyway he then claimed the Sword of Summer which was lost for thousands of years, the sword of summer, which was originally his father’s Frey, god of fertility, summer, wealth, rain, and Lord of Alfheim.
When an attack by fire giants forces him to choose between his own safety and the lives of hundreds of innocents, Magnus makes a fatal decision. Where in Magnus dies. Not like your average story eh. But he was resurrected, by a Valkyrie, a fierce female warrior in Norse Mythology which in my opinion are a lot alike in the PJO and HoO, the Hunter of Artemis and the Amazons. The Valkyrie’s name was Samirah Al-Abbas, Sam for