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The House Of Hades By Rick Riordan

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House of Hades is the fourth novel in the Heroes of Olympus series. The novel starts with the paragraph “ Hazel almost ate a boulder. She was peering into the fog, wondering how it could be so difficult to fly across one fatuous mountain range, when the ship’s alarm bells sounded”. In this paragraph it made me interested on how the story will happen.

Hazel made the mistake of looking over the rail. One night in her sleep a dark spherical shape move towards her. The novel is filled with mystery and exciting moments especially the characters that were interesting. The Demigod crew of the Argo II is standing at a crossroads. They could continue on their journey to find the house of hades, where they can open the doors of death to rescue their friend Percy and Annabeth.

The story begins with Nico and Leo helped Hazel to go to the top of the mountain and revealed what is on top of the mountain. At the …show more content…

She was so desperate that whether they could fashion a parachute of their shirts. She realized that she could see Percy’s hair as she hugged him. The air became unendurable hot, pervade with a smell like rotten eggs. Everything in their surroundings changed. The darkness took on a grey-red hue.

In this novel, Rick Riordan gives his viewpoint unusually because some of the characters like Jason were not introduced at the beginning. But later on, the reader find out that Jason was one of the trio who will rescue Percy and Annabeth with Frank Zhang, Piper McLean and Jason himself.

The main characters of the novel are Percy and Annabeth. At the end part of the novel Hazel, Leo, Nico and the trio rescued their friend Percy and Annabeth. Percy stared into the sky. He wished they were looking at it from the beach on Long Island rather than from halfway around the world. As they sailed farther from the coast, the sky darkened and more stars came out. The Argo II sailed into the

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