History YMMV / TheKaneChronicles

* BrokenBase:
** Sadie and Anubis's relationship is either seen as ok or pedophilic at worst. Her love triangle between Walt and Anubis is also a point of contention.

* FridgeBrilliance: In ''The Red Pyramid'', Thoth only agrees to help Carter and Sadie if they can prove that they're not going to just repeat the old stories over and over. Except for the times where they deliberately invoke the myths, such as [[spoiler:repeating Ra's journey through the Duat]], the Kane siblings don't repeat those stories as much as [[Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians the Greeks]], [[Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus the Romans]], [[Literature/MagnusChaseAndTheGodsOfAsgard or the Aesir and Vanir]].
** Similarly, in the first book, Thoth explains to the Kane siblings (and the readers, by extension) that his name is [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm incomprehensible to spell out in English]], so he pronounces it "Jeh-hooty". So why do the other Egyptian deities use the Greek pronunciations (egregiously Anubis)? Easy - that's how they comprehend it, and, being [[UnreliableNarrator unreliable]], Carter and Sadie translated them to their more familiar Greek forms for you so you'd know who they're referencing. Not a lot of people would connect "Anapa" with "Anubis", for example.
* FridgeHorror: Apophis [[spoiler: awakening in Cairo]] probably killed thousands of people, given that he's a {{Kaiju}} and [[spoiler: entered the city during the FinalBattle]].

** [[spoiler:Walt hosting Anubis means that Walt will survive the family curse...but if he and Sadie have a child there's no chance that ''they'' will survive...]]
* FriendlyFandoms: Fans of trilogy became fans of ''Series/MoonKnight2022'' due to the use of Egyptian gods and the fact that [[spoiler:both stories have Taweret appear as a friendly hippo with ''Kane Chronicles'' having her run a retirement home and ''Moon Knight'' has her in a mental asylum world.]] There's also a TwoPersonLoveTriangle between Layla, Marc and Steven just like Sadi, Walt and Anubis.

* OneTrueThreesome: [[spoiler: Oddly enough for a kids book. In the end Sadie, Walt, and Anubis come to an arrangement, simplified because the later two now share a body.]]
* TearJerker: [[spoiler:Bast's death.]] [[spoiler:They fail to rescue their dad, they've lost practically everything, and Carter's love interest was a ''statue''.]]
** Actually [[spoiler:their dad knew he wouldn't live but would be with his wife, they still have Amos and Bast, and Carter's love interest is thus still alive but sleeping,]] so BitterSweetEnding.
*** And then [[spoiler:Bes sacrificing his ''ren''-and with it, ''his mind''-so that the siblings have enough time to beat the BigBad of the second book.]]

* FriendlyFandoms: Fans of trilogy became fans of ''Series/MoonKnight2022'' due to the use of Egyptian gods and the fact that [[spoiler:both stories have Taweret appear as a friendly hippo with ''Kane Chronicles'' having her run a retirement home and ''Moon Knight'' has her in a mental asylum world.]]

* FridgeBrilliance: In ''The Red Pyramid'', Thoth only agrees to help Carter and Sadie if they can prove that they're not going to just repeat the old stories over and over. Except for the times where they deliberately invoke the myths, such as [[spoiler:repeating Ra's journey through the Duat]], the Kane siblings don't repeat those stories as much as [[Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians the Greeks]], [[Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus the Romans]], [[Literature/MagnusChaseAndTheGodsOfAsgard or the Asgardians]].

* CompleteMonster: Setne, from ''[[Literature/TheKaneChronicles The Serpent's Shadow]]'' and ''Literature/DemigodsAndMagicians'', son of Pharaoh [[UsefulNotes/RamsesII Ramses the Great]], was a murderer and blasphemer who escaped oblivion to return to Earth and sow chaos, being responsible for massive amounts of destruction, including UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution and UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. While initially assisting the Kane siblings against Apophis, Setne betrays them to instead try to seize control of the great serpent, intending on feeding it many souls in the afterlife, his father included, before unleashing Apophis to destroy most of the world whereupon he will proceed to rule the rest. Upon failing in this, Setne later returns to attempt to [[GodEating devour the gods]] of every pantheon to make himself the supreme one god who will dominate the world entire.

* CompleteMonster: [[EvilSorcerer Setne]], son of Pharaoh Ramses the Great, was a murderer and blasphemer who escaped oblivion to return to Earth and sow chaos, being [[HistoricalRapSheet responsible for massive amounts of destruction]], including UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution and UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. While initially assisting the Kane siblings against Apophis, Setne betrays them to instead try to seize control of the great serpent, intending on feeding it many souls in the afterlife, his father included, before unleashing Apophis to destroy most of the world whereupon he will proceed to rule the rest. Upon failing in this, Setne later returns to attempt to [[GodEating devour the gods]] of every pantheon to make himself the supreme one god who will dominate the world entire.

* FanPreferredCouple: Sadie/Anubis seems to be considerably more popular than Sadie/Walt. [[spoiler: It eventually settles as a compromise of sorts when Walt is chosen to be Anubis's host.]]

---> '''Ra''': Weasel Cookies!
---> '''Apophis''': [[FlatWhat (is diverted for a second)]]
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: [[Awesome/TheKaneChronicles Its page is here.]]