Once again another brilliant book by Rick riordan! Hilarious, heartfelt narrative, excellent pacing, wonderful characters, amazing plot, and extremely satisfactory ending, the serpents shadow is definitely a wonderful addition to the Kane chronicles, and ties the series together quite nicely. I was quite sad when I started reading it, as I thought it would be a five book installment, like his other series, (I assumed, and you know how that turns out), but I'm glad Rick riordan is the type of author to stick to the number of books he originally set out for a series to have, instead of expanding the series and adding more titles for the sake of money. I learned a lot from this series, and it will remain one of my favorites.