The Serpent's Shadow
- Published
- 1 May 2012
- Pages
- 416
- ISBN-13
- 9781423163275
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Kane Chronicles continues with The Serpent's Shadow, the third and final entry, released in 2012, closing the House of Life's crisis and Carter and Sadie's alternating-narrator trilogy.
Key facts about The Serpent's Shadow
The Serpent's Shadow is a novel by Rick Riordan. Readers have had it since 1 May 2012. It runs to 416 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of The Serpent's Shadow. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781423163275 to find the main one.
The Serpent's Shadow is book 4 of 5 in The Kane Chronicles series. The series has 5 published books. However, the series starts with The Red Pyramid (2010). Demigods & Magicians is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 5 April 2016.
Additionally, Rick Riordan writes Tres Navarre, Percy Jackson and the Olympians and The Heroes of Olympus, plus 3 more series. Those series sit on our crime and fantasy shelves. Meanwhile, The Wild Zone is the latest published Rick Riordan book on file, from 29 September 2026.
About Rick Riordan
Rick Riordan is an American author who reshaped middle-grade fantasy by fusing Greek mythology with contemporary American life in Percy Jackson and the Olympians, introducing Percy, a dyslexic, ADHD twelve-year-old who discovers he's the son of Poseidon and is thrust into a modern-day world where the Greek gods and monsters are alive and active. See every Rick Riordan book in order.
Its place in The Kane Chronicles
The Serpent's Shadow is book 4 in the The Kane Chronicles series. It follows The Kane Chronicles Survival Guide. It is followed by Demigods & Magicians. See the full The Kane Chronicles reading order.
Siblings Carter and Sadie Kane have barely known each other since their mother's death split the family apart -- until their father, an Egyptologist, accidentally unleashes the god Set at the British Museum and vanishes. The explosion also wakes something in the Kane children themselves: they are the last blood of the pharaohs, capable of hosting the power of Egyptian gods, and the only line of defense as ancient deities and the secretive House of Life drag them into a battle to stop Set from reshaping the world…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781423140573
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780141967547
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781423142027