The New York Times Book Review - BD Wong
The actor Kieran Culkin gives his audio interpretation a nerdy "textbook genre" delivery that shows his affinity for Riordan's wry sense of teenage humor…the reading [Culkin] gives is indeed charming.
T. S. Eliot once deemed April the cruelest month, but for kids still soaking up their last days of summer vacation and dreading the start of school, August may well be the worst. Help soften the blow with some stellar reads that will have them thinking more highly of the eighth month of the year. […]
For 16-year-old Magnus Chase, death isn’t the end. As the description of the first book in Rick Riordan’s Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series ominously states, “Sometimes, the only way to start a new life is to die.” And for Magnus, that new life is in the Hotel Valhalla, the afterlife for the […]