#16 in Myths & legends
The Sword of Summer
- 512
- Pages
- about 9 h
- Reading time
Affiliate link: buying through it supports BookRank at no extra cost to you.
Our view
“The Sword of Summer” is a quick-witted Norse-myth adventure whose jokes and varied cast do most of the work. Riordan gives even his antagonists reasons for what they do, and none of his earlier series is needed to follow along. At over five hundred pages the middle drags for some readers, and some find the narrator’s voice too close to Percy Jackson’s.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
The Sword of Summer is a young-adult fantasy novel based on Norse mythology written by American author Rick Riordan. It was published on October 6, 2015, by Disney Hyperion, and is the first novel in the Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series.
Reading order · Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard
Full order & progress →- The Sword of SummerThis book
8.18.1 / 10 - The Hammer of Thor
8.18.1 / 10 - The Ship of the Dead
8.18.1 / 10 - 9 From the Nine Worlds
7.97.9 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.1 across 463 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 76% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Myths & legends average of 8.2. That is how 8.1 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.7 | 61 | 13% |
| Hardcover | 8.0 | 402 | 87% |
Frequently asked
What age is The Sword of Summer for?
The Sword of Summer sits on the Young adult shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 13 and up. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 512 pages — shorter than 57% of the ranked books in Myths & legends.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
If you liked this
Same shelf — Myths & legends — with scores between 8.0 and 8.5, closest to this book.
