The House of Hades Book Review

I'M BACK! As you can see, I changed the blog's URL in the hopes that this one is a.) a bit less angsty and b.) a bit more fitting with the purpose of the blog. My vacation to England was really nice, but I'm not writing a recap because I'm working very hard on my book right now. I'm about 20,000 words in, so I've still got a lot of work to do. But first, after the absence of Son of Neptune and Mark of Athena, let's get into The House of Hades.

The House of Hades by Rick Riordan

This entire review contains spoilers for the previous books in the HoO series. Read at your own peril. I'll warn you once the spoilers for House of Hades arrive.

Title: The House of Hades

Author: Rick Riordan

Series: Heroes of Olympus #4

Spin off to: Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Pages: 597

Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children

Publishing date: October 8th, 2013

Rating: 5 stars

Spotify playlist: none, I've been a bit loose with playlists lately. There will probably be one for Blood of Olympus, though.

Previous reviews: The Lost Hero

If you weren't sold on Percabeth yet (how could you not?), this is the book that will convince you. The stakes are so high in Tartarus and I slumped a little every time we left it. And apart from that, there is so much character development for the rest of the crew on the Agro II.

Favorite character development:

1. Nico. Heart-wrenching, yes, but wonderful.
2. Leo. I just love Leo too much.
3. Coach Hedge. I squealed. Loudly. My brother came to ask me what was so funny because I couldn't stop smirking.
4. Frank. He's cute in his ridiculous kind of way.
5. Hazel. I would rank her higher but I don't have space.
6. Piper. I love Piper, but I hated the scene.
7. Jason. Ah, nothing as amusing as the Rick Riordan fandom's collective dislike for Jason Grace.

For the record, because I haven't shared my thoughts on the other two:

Favorite book order:

1. House of Hades
2. The Lost Hero
3. Son of Neptune
4. Mark of Athena wasn't doing it that well for me.

Something I really like about this series in general is that, within one adventure, there are so many side characters and minor gods and little sub-adventures we encounter. Just those little meetings and characters are so much fun to me, especially the gods, like Nyx or Hecate. This does lead to my wanting to see absolutely everyone return for Blood of Olympus, even people from seven books ago.

I don't really want to do a spoiler section, but LEO IN THIS BOOK. Like, I hate Ice Bitch but I can forgive her for this in no time.

Throughout this entire book, I wanted to Google 'polecat' to see what I need to picture farting everywhere. I finally did it.

I promise my Blood of Olympus review will be huge and have a spoiler section, but for now, I wish you a very good day.