The House of Hades: Amazing writing that will send you to the Gods itself.

The House of Hades. The Heroes of Olympus. Written by Rick Riordan. That is all there is to it. The House of Hades is part of the Heroes of Olympus series which is the sequel series to the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. For more on Riordan's books, click here. The Heroes of Olympus books contain the same main characters (Percy, Annabeth, etc.) but it also introduces new characters like Jason, Piper, Hazel, and Frank.

Rick Riordan is a one of the best young adult authors' because he is great at keeping the story alive. This is to make sure that attention-deficit teenagers like us, won't put the book down. Riordan creates suspense at the ends of every chapter so that you don't put the book down. (I like your tricky thinking). A great example of the suspense he builds up is "She began to run faster, which would have meant her death if Percy hadn't stopped her." (417). You keep reading to the next chapter to find out what happen, and then you are left with another cliffhanger, which makes you read the next chapter, and the next chapter and so on and so on. The suspense is just so exciting!

The House of Hades also has great figurative language used. An example of description is "The shards of marble gathered into a miniature tornado, spiraling to the pedestal, and reassembled into a complete bust.."(Riordan 276). Wow. That must hurt. Riordan creates this line so that you can not only see it, but feel the words too. It creates a feeling that was never there before. Much better than saying "the marble bust." Boring.

Something I love even more about this book is how sarcastic and funny it is. A great line from the book is "He imagined the Fates up in Olympus, laughing at his wishful thinking: LOL NOOB!" (Riordan 359). You don't really see that kind of sentence in any other book. I mean, just imagine: "LOL, Montag is a noob that reads books!" That just wouldn't work. Another example of a sarcastic tone is "Like all the maggot monsters crawling all over the plains of Tartarus, they should head toward the dark horizon. Percy was just brimming with enthusiasm for that" (Riordan 99). You can really get the sarcastic tone from that line. Sarcastic authors equal sarcastic books which equal relatable readers. Readers are "brimming with enthusiasm" as they enter school. I just keep loving this book even more and more and can't wait for the next one to come out!

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