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The House of Hades (The Heroes of Olympus, #4)
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"Swords! Guns! Massive ka-booms!"
"The House of Hades is open for business."
"Doors of Death, here we come."
The Quest of Seven Demigods continues from Riordan's biggest cliffhanger yet at the end of The Mark of Athena, and Chaos is everywhere: literally and figuratively! The author must've been looking forward to this one, where there are too many possibilities to make things turn out terribly, which usually suits the penultimate adventures of demigods. And this one - the fourth of the series - was by far the best of HoO for me (just like the 4th one of PJO being my favorite of that series).
"Annabeth Chase, died age 17. BA-BOOM. Died of massive injuries while leaping like an idiot into the abyss of Chaos. BA-BOOM. Survived by her father, mother and tow stepbrothers who barely knew her. BA-BOOM."
The two interconnected plot lines, are both eventful, thrilling, full of suspense and still hilarious at times. But I liked the Tartarus adventure the best, which was entirely new territory for both PJO and HoO stories up to now. Dark and terrible as it was, I do wish that part were a bit longer. Surprising encounters down in the abyss were nicely laid out, making the reader fall in love with two most unlikely characters.
"Never EVER sleep in Tartarus."
Argo II adventure was more towards fun side, but still had it's terrifying moments where each demigod faces their own opportunity to come through for the team. It felt like preparing the personalities and highlighting innate character qualities of the five demigods. And the re-appearance of certain characters complemented the flow of the plot of Argo II team nicely.
"the pretty ghost ladies who serve Persephone are good. Exploding zombies are bad."
In terms of pure adventure, I have a hard time picturing the next (and last) book of HoO surpassing The House of Hades, for, this offered the most entertaining adventure of the both PJO-HoO combined. I hope the next one will not fall behind by a lot. Oh, and, it's very kind of the author to end things on relatively relaxed status for once!
"Ships to fix! Festus to check! Earth goddesses to punch in the face! What are we waiting for?"
"The House of Hades is open for business."
"Doors of Death, here we come."
The Quest of Seven Demigods continues from Riordan's biggest cliffhanger yet at the end of The Mark of Athena, and Chaos is everywhere: literally and figuratively! The author must've been looking forward to this one, where there are too many possibilities to make things turn out terribly, which usually suits the penultimate adventures of demigods. And this one - the fourth of the series - was by far the best of HoO for me (just like the 4th one of PJO being my favorite of that series).
"Annabeth Chase, died age 17. BA-BOOM. Died of massive injuries while leaping like an idiot into the abyss of Chaos. BA-BOOM. Survived by her father, mother and tow stepbrothers who barely knew her. BA-BOOM."
The two interconnected plot lines, are both eventful, thrilling, full of suspense and still hilarious at times. But I liked the Tartarus adventure the best, which was entirely new territory for both PJO and HoO stories up to now. Dark and terrible as it was, I do wish that part were a bit longer. Surprising encounters down in the abyss were nicely laid out, making the reader fall in love with two most unlikely characters.
"Never EVER sleep in Tartarus."
Argo II adventure was more towards fun side, but still had it's terrifying moments where each demigod faces their own opportunity to come through for the team. It felt like preparing the personalities and highlighting innate character qualities of the five demigods. And the re-appearance of certain characters complemented the flow of the plot of Argo II team nicely.
"the pretty ghost ladies who serve Persephone are good. Exploding zombies are bad."
In terms of pure adventure, I have a hard time picturing the next (and last) book of HoO surpassing The House of Hades, for, this offered the most entertaining adventure of the both PJO-HoO combined. I hope the next one will not fall behind by a lot. Oh, and, it's very kind of the author to end things on relatively relaxed status for once!
"Ships to fix! Festus to check! Earth goddesses to punch in the face! What are we waiting for?"
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"Earth goddesses to punch in the face! What are we waiting for?" 🤣
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Joe wrote: ""Earth goddesses to punch in the face! What are we waiting for?" 🤣"😄😄
I'm the same, in that my favourites are book four in both series! Are you going to continue on with Riordan's book? It's absolutely fine if you don't, because PJO and HoO are still my favourites.
WeasleyNewtValdezDiAngelo wrote: "Glad you're liking it so far! One more book to go! Have fun :) Happy reading!"Thank you, Weasley! 😊 Yep, and halfway through that one already...
Isabella wrote: "I'm the same, in that my favourites are book four in both series! Are you going to continue on with Riordan's book? It's absolutely fine if you don't, because PJO and HoO are still my favourites."I think I will continue to Trials of Apollo.. It doesn't feel right to stop with only these two. I just hope there's some kind of a connection/ continuation from PJO-HoO.
This was also my favorite in the series
Cale wrote: "This was also my favorite in the series"Yep, this was great!.. 😊 And the last one isn't that bad either.. at least so far
Tharindu wrote: "Isabella wrote: "I'm the same, in that my favourites are book four in both series! Are you going to continue on with Riordan's book? It's absolutely fine if you don't, because PJO and HoO are still..."Cool! I completely understand, I couldn't stop either! There is some kind of connection between ToA and PJO/HoO, in that you have to have read them both to read it. Magnus Chase and Kane Chronicles (also highly recommend the latter, it's one of Rick's most underrated series, plus it has a movie adaptation in the works at Netflix) can both be read by themselves without any other Riordan books, but ToA deals with the direct fallout (to put it non-spoilery) of HoO so it doesn't make sense without that fore knowledge. I also think you should read Magnus Chase (only if you feel like it) after ToA, because there are some little connections to events in ToA, as well as multiple Annabeth and one Percy cameo. Ok, I'll stop now 🙄😂
Trials of Apollo can be hard to get into at first but I think you can really see how the author's writing style has matured. If you love the humor in the PJO/HoO series than you'll love his Magnus Chase and the God's of Asgard series too!
Isabella wrote: "Cool! I completely understand, I couldn't stop either! There is some kind of connection between ToA and PJO/HoO, in that you have to have read them both to read it. Magnus Chase and Kane Chronicles (also highly recommend the latter, it's one of Rick's most underrated series,"Thanks for the heads up 😊... I do have both Magnus Chase and and Kane Chronicles with me actually. I saw in a few places that Kane Chronicles should be read while reading PJO-HoO, but decided to dive in to that one once I'm done with all three half-blood campaigns.. Glad to hear both those two are interesting reads. :D
Chelsea wrote: "Trials of Apollo can be hard to get into at first but I think you can really see how the author's writing style has matured. If you love the humor in the PJO/HoO series than you'll love his Magnus ..."I do love the PJO-HoO humor and it'll be awesome to have that in ToA.. It's great to hear all these good things about Magnus Chase, because I already have it with me 😊.. Thought collecting them was a safe bet when I fell in love with PJO.
