The Heroes of Olympus: The House of Hades

I read The Heroes of Olympus: The House of Hades for my outside of class book project. The author of this book is Rick Riordan and it has a copyright date of 2013.It is a fantasy book and the chapters are each demigods different perspective of what is happening. This book is about the seven demigods from the Great Prophecy that is trying to save the world from Gaea’s awakening and destroying the world. The demigods have to prevent that from happening while they are trying to find peace with Roman demigods that they had trouble with earlier in the last book. I would probably say that the overall theme is not to give up because the demigods have a very tough life but they never give up even though they are about to die a trillion billion times. In the last book Percy and Annabeth fell into Tartarus after battling Arcane, and now they go on their journey in Tartarus.

                 

The story is told in 3rd person and each chapter is one of the main characters perspective. The book is mainly about the seven demigods. Percy and Annabeth fell into Tartaus together. They are trying to find the doors of death and they are trying to close them with the help from a Titan that Percy fought in one of the earlier books. Percy made the titan loose his memory so now the Titan is good and named Bob. On the other side, they are trying to find the other side of the doors and they will have to close them at the same time as Percy and Annabeth, and if they don't, the Earth mother Gaea will destry the Earth and its people. They are also trying to make peace with the Roman demigods. Rick Riordan just keeps me interested because it is a very funny and suspenseful book that you really can't miss out on reading.

             

The book affected me in the way that Percy and Annabeth ended up living and loving each other even though they are about to die a million times. I thought it was really sad about the giant not being able to help because of his punishment. This book doesn't really make me change some of my ideas and it doesn't remind me of any other books or authors either. Rick Riordan is special and has ideas that nobody would be able to think of.

             

To be honest, I really don't have any negative comments about this book. I thought his ideas were amazing and he writes it really funny. I really recommend this book because it is very well and funny written and he has a very funny dialogue for a lot of the characters. This book is suspenseful and the action is well described. There is also some romance between the main seven characters.

Veronika Holm

11/07/13

Rating:***** 5/5