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MY REVIEW FOR THE HOUSE OF HADES!

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Maybe this is just me, or maybe it's because I read it online and not the actual book, but I was kinda disappointed. Before you start going off on me, let me explain.

So- we just left off when our OTP fell into a bottomless pit of evil. Well, apparently not bottomless. If that happened in any other story, wouldn't you think that it would require a pretty awesome sequel?

For me, there were wayyyyyy too many Tartarus scenes. Yes, I love Percabeth as much as the next guy, but I felt that there were too many. I'm not sure if I liked the whole Bob the Titan part. I think that it was just good enough to have that one little story with him and then leave it. I did kinda like the Small Bob part though. Oh, how I love half-dead saber-toothed tiger kittens. :)

From here on out, I'm going to do the con parts in the book. Then I will do some pros.

So we start off with Hazel. They fight some mountain gods, then Hazel finds Arion and they go to have a not-so-friendly meeting with Hecate.

I could understand the whole black dog part, but seriously- a farting polecat? It seems so... childish.

Then we go to Annabeth and her bitterness. Percy gets himself and Annabeth into a cold, dark river of misery, then they go and find a fire river.

One thing that I didn't like was how Rick brought back old monsters. One thing that I always like about the books was the interactions with new monsters and characters. But now they already know how to kill them, and there's no suspense.

Another problem that I had with this book was that it was so predictable. You could just see what was coming next.

The thing that really bugged me, though: we were all so worried about who was going to close the Doors. Well guess what? THEY AREN'T EVEN DOORS. IT'S A FREAKING ELEVATOR. WHY DON'T THEY CALL IT "THE ELEVATOR OF DEATH" INSTEAD OF THE DOORS?

That made me really angry. I was really looking forward to someone sacrificing themselves to close the Doors. But no. A freaking titan holds a freaking button so that the freaking elevator can get Percabeth out of freaking Tartarus.

And another thing: I never thought that I would miss cliffhangers. Guess what?

I MISS CLIFFHANGERS.

You could probably challenge that. But really, it wasn't that much of a cliffhanger. Let's see here:

The Lost Hero- Percy is at the enemy Camp and might just die. WHAT?

The Son of Neptune- Percabeth reunion! Oh wait- we have another year! WHAT?

The Mark of Athena- We have to wait a year to find out if our OTP can survive Tartarus. WHAT?

The House of Hades- Everything is ok for now and they still have two weeks to get to Gaea. *awkward silence* Just... nothing.

Now for some pros!

PERCY: You. are. fabulous. You control a freaking death river! I almost died when he said that he wanted to study surfing in college. HE KILLS ARACHNE IN ONE HIT. HOW DO YOU EVEN DO THAT. How do you think that he feels when Bob realizes who he is? Not only does Percy have to survive Tartarus, he has to live with the guilt of erasing Bob's memory. And that's not all! He has to endure the pain of every monster that he has killed because of the stupid curse hags. When he was standing in front of Tartarus and he dropped Riptide, I was like "Oh my gods. He's done. He gave up. His mind cracked oh my gods rick can't do this to us what in hades oh my gods annabeth gods and titans no..." And he talks about having kids with Annabeth AND I JUST CAN'T TAKE THIS MUCH CUTENESS.

ANNABETH: You, ma'am, are freaking amazing. You have no weapon to defend yourself with, yet you get yourself and Percy out of almost any situation by just talking. You could be a freaking daughter of Aphrodite because you basically have charmspeak. This is what I love about Annabeth: she can get herself out of almost any situation by just using her mind. And through this whole thing, she keeps Percy sane. And her idea with the offering fire... that was just pure genius.

JASON: You have made it to the "Top 5 characters" list. Let me just start by saying this: he is becoming Greek. He's so much more layed-back and awesome. I can just imagine Jason with shaggy hair... ah... When he bursts through the window only to find Leo has already done the job- that was freaking hilarious. But what I really liked about Jason in this book is the part with him and Nico. After Nico confesses, Jason isn't even phased. You would think that anyone else would've gotten all "what does he think about me then?" but Jason just stood up, put on his big boy panties and told Nico that it was completely ok. I loved the part where he said that everyone else would unleash the wrath of the gods on anyone who questioned Nico. Jason is just perfection in this book.

PIPER: I don't know about you guys, but I've always liked Piper. She definitely takes control in this book. When she was talking with Khione and the boreads, the whole time I was thinking "Zethes... you little... if you do anything to Piper... I'll stick that stupid sword where the sun don't shine." Was it just me or was Rick kinda referring to some adult themes there? But Piper's whole duel with Khione and waking up Festus and AAAHHHHHH... perfection and I love Piper.

LEO: You little slice of awesomeness. Oh gods when he was getting chased by the dwarfs and his pants fell down... HAHAHAHAHAHA! And the part where he woke up cuddling with Nike... there were so many great Leo moments in this book. It was so awesome when he single-handedly took down both of the dwarfs and sent them on the Romans. But one really big part that I want to talk about was Leo and Calypso. I DO NOT SHIP CALEO AT ALL. I've always hated the idea of Caleo because I loved the idea of Leyna. It seemed so impossible that Leo out of all people would end up on Calypso's island. But of course, what does Rick go and do? Send him to Calypso's island and make them fall in love with each other. RICK. WHY MUST YOU HURT ME SO?

HAZEL: I lovedlovedloved Hazel's major role in this book. In addition to her other powers, now she can control the freaking Mist. How awesome is that? She tricks Sciron into feeding himself to his own giant turtle. I can't remember that many specific parts, but I LOVED her character in this one. And how she controlled the Labyrinth... that was just plain awesomeness at work.

FRANK: OH MY GODS FRANK MY LITTLE BABY IS A FREAKING BEAST! The only other time that we had seen the Blessing of Ares (or Mars) was in the Battle of Manhattan with Clarisse. But guess what? FRANK GETS IT NOT ONCE BUT FREAKING TWICE IN THE SAME BOOK. I can't even describe how awesome it was when he led all those cow monsters through Venice and killed them all single-handedly. Then he becomes freaking praetor. OUR LITTLE NOT-SO-CHUBBY ANY MORE FAI ZHANG IS PRAETOR. I completely loved how Hazel reacted to Frank's growth-spurt. He had so much character development in this book and was my favorite character the whole time.

NICO: Nico. Nico, Nico, Nico. My little baby is all grown up... You know, I have read tons of Perico fics before, but I never really like the idea of it. But now that it is actually kinda official... I FREAKING LOVE IT. I really appreciate Rick's bravery with this. He knew that making Nico gay could probably make him lose tons of fans, yet he did it anyways. Let's all give Rick a big round of applause! *little claps for Rick* Am I the only one that thinks that making Nico gay will get him twice the amount of fangirls that he already had? And I really want to know what is going to happen with him and Reyna and Coach Hedge.

REYNA: This chick has been my favorite since the Son of Neptune. She was so against the seven going across the Mediterranean and guess what she does? SHE SINGLE-HANDEDLY FLIES HALFWAY ACROSS THE WORLD TO WHERE SHE NEVER WANTED TO GO. And her last name. HER LAST NAME. Ha- her initials are RA-RA. Oh gods, Grover... And poor Scipio! Now she has to go take a crazy satyr, a death boy, and a giant statue to Camp half-Blood before Octavian kills all the Greeks that little son of a gorgon...

COACH HEDGE: OMGS HE IS GOING TO HAVE A LITTLE CLOUD MYMPH BABY WITH MELLIE I CAN'T HANDLE THIS RIGHT NOW THAT BABY IS GOING TO BE SO CUTE AND VIOLENT AND WEAPON CRAZY! Headcanon: Coach Hedge reads war stories to his child before it goes to bed.

Ok, so maybe this book was a bit amazing, but still, it wasn't everything that I expected it to be. Now just an agonizing year for the Blood of Olympus...

There's my review! If you want to ask me questions about any parts of the book or anything else, either PM or review with your question!

-DaughterOfGaea2399