" Percy Jackson and the Heroes Of Olympus; the House of Hades", by Rick Riordan is the fourth book of the bestselling saga of its name. This book is the secuel to " The Mark Of Atena", wich I wrote about last quarter. Continueing the idea, Percy and Anabeth fall to Tartarus but survive the fall because they fel in a river, one of the 5 rivers of the Underworld. The other Heroes, Frank,Leo, Piper, Hazel and Jason have to reach Greece to close the doors of death on this side and Percy has to close the doors from the Underworld, because Gaea had control of them and was bringing monsters to her army to attack Olympus. In the underworld, Percy and Anabeth struggle a lot to get to the doors, they have to drink liquid fire, and struggle with the God Tartarus himself, but they were not alone. Percy found Laepetus, a titan, Percy eraised his memory and convinced him he was a janitor named Bob and that they were friends. Bob, helps them and guides the to the doors, where a bunch of monsters were waiting to go trough the doors and to Greece. They fight monsters that brought up courses other people gave Percy at the moment he killed them. Both find a way to get invisible and ge to the doors, but when they brake the chains that held the doors, the invisibility disapeared. The god Tartarus then apeared in human form and started battleing Percy, but Tartarus is inmortal. Then a Giant apeared, he started battleing with Tartarus, his father. This giant was the counterpart of Hades, so he was peacefull, and for this, Tartarus cursed him to live inside his body forever and fight everyday with a drakun. Percy encountered the Drakun but the giant saved them in the way to the doors. after this, Percy and Anabeth tell him to brake his curse and go free, and help him but the giant denied but he ended helping Percy And Anabeth to get inside the doors and leave.
At the other side, The other 5 heroes and Nico DiAngelo had things equally complicated in their way to Epirus. Leo gets stuck with the daughter of Atlas, the one Percy got stuck with. Some others fell from the ship and ended up at the bottom of the sea. They had to fight with , the man had guns and never missed a shot , he had a giant turtle chasing the Ship untill the ship fell into a trap. The pirate made Hazel and Jason give him jwels and then tried to trow them from the cliff to fed them to his turtle. They had to use the mist in order to make him think they were eated by the turtle and used the distraction to trow him to his own turle. Frank had to fight poison breathing cows, lots and lots of them, using his bow, his avility and Hazel's sword, he beated all of them. He did it by himself in order to get a favor from Mars, his dad, so he could give a farmer god a snake and free Hazel and Leo. Afterwards they had to search fir a scepter, a magic one to bring a full legion to life in oerder to fight the army guarding the doors. To get it they had to fight Cupid, the god, he wanted Nico to reveal his true love in order to give it to him, but Nico didnt want to revel his secret so Jason and Nico fought Cupid. The fight ended when finally Nico revealed he was gay. This pleased Cupid, so he gave them the scepter. When they arrived they encountered the full army. Nico used his powers and the scepter to respown the roam legion of dead soldiers, Jason was preator of Rome, he was suposed to control the army but the Legion didnt ovey because Jason had been in Camp Half Blood. Frank had to control the army but he was only a Centurion. Jason had to give him an emergency field promotion to Preator so he could control the legion. The heroes won and arrived at the doors, but they found the giant counterpart of Hecate, and the mother of the minotaur. If none of them opened the doors, Percy and Anabeth could not get inside and would die. Hazel defeat the mother of the minotaur in a mist battle. The giant was left, but he was still in control of the doors when Percy and Anabeth arrived. The giant didnt open the doors so Leo had to trow a screwdriver to the open button of the doors so Percy and Anabeth could get inside. Then Hecate arrived and helped the heroes defeat the giant. When the heroes beated up the giant, Hecate burned him with her tourches. Then, the other preator of Rome arrived, and she and Nico parted with the Atena Pantenos to the US, in order to make peace between Roman and Greek Camps. Percy and Anabeth then exchanged stories with each other and their journeys. The final battle was still to come in Athens.
I liked a lot this book. It has suspence, it suiched from side to side, 3 chapters for the Heroes in Greece and one for the heroes in Tartarus. At the end of every chapter you always wanted to know more, but it went to the others, at the end of that chapter you wanted to know more but it swiched so it kepps you reading. This structure makes you read 583 pages in almost 2 and a half days because is a really good book. I will recomend it to everyone, but firt read the other 3 books of the series and all of the 5 books of the Percy Jackson series. I am impatient to read the last book, " The Blood of Olympus", coming out in October 2014.
At the other side, The other 5 heroes and Nico DiAngelo had things equally complicated in their way to Epirus. Leo gets stuck with the daughter of Atlas, the one Percy got stuck with. Some others fell from the ship and ended up at the bottom of the sea. They had to fight with , the man had guns and never missed a shot , he had a giant turtle chasing the Ship untill the ship fell into a trap. The pirate made Hazel and Jason give him jwels and then tried to trow them from the cliff to fed them to his turtle. They had to use the mist in order to make him think they were eated by the turtle and used the distraction to trow him to his own turle. Frank had to fight poison breathing cows, lots and lots of them, using his bow, his avility and Hazel's sword, he beated all of them. He did it by himself in order to get a favor from Mars, his dad, so he could give a farmer god a snake and free Hazel and Leo. Afterwards they had to search fir a scepter, a magic one to bring a full legion to life in oerder to fight the army guarding the doors. To get it they had to fight Cupid, the god, he wanted Nico to reveal his true love in order to give it to him, but Nico didnt want to revel his secret so Jason and Nico fought Cupid. The fight ended when finally Nico revealed he was gay. This pleased Cupid, so he gave them the scepter. When they arrived they encountered the full army. Nico used his powers and the scepter to respown the roam legion of dead soldiers, Jason was preator of Rome, he was suposed to control the army but the Legion didnt ovey because Jason had been in Camp Half Blood. Frank had to control the army but he was only a Centurion. Jason had to give him an emergency field promotion to Preator so he could control the legion. The heroes won and arrived at the doors, but they found the giant counterpart of Hecate, and the mother of the minotaur. If none of them opened the doors, Percy and Anabeth could not get inside and would die. Hazel defeat the mother of the minotaur in a mist battle. The giant was left, but he was still in control of the doors when Percy and Anabeth arrived. The giant didnt open the doors so Leo had to trow a screwdriver to the open button of the doors so Percy and Anabeth could get inside. Then Hecate arrived and helped the heroes defeat the giant. When the heroes beated up the giant, Hecate burned him with her tourches. Then, the other preator of Rome arrived, and she and Nico parted with the Atena Pantenos to the US, in order to make peace between Roman and Greek Camps. Percy and Anabeth then exchanged stories with each other and their journeys. The final battle was still to come in Athens.
I liked a lot this book. It has suspence, it suiched from side to side, 3 chapters for the Heroes in Greece and one for the heroes in Tartarus. At the end of every chapter you always wanted to know more, but it went to the others, at the end of that chapter you wanted to know more but it swiched so it kepps you reading. This structure makes you read 583 pages in almost 2 and a half days because is a really good book. I will recomend it to everyone, but firt read the other 3 books of the series and all of the 5 books of the Percy Jackson series. I am impatient to read the last book, " The Blood of Olympus", coming out in October 2014.
link to Rick Riordan's page if interested
http://www.rickriordan.com/my-books/percy-jackson/heroes-of-olympus/The-House-of-Hades.aspx