![]() Mr.Riordan, Sir? One happy ending to go, please? You deserve the very best and they don’t come better than (view spoiler). You deserve a heroine with gumption.a heroine with sass and a heroine who is not queasy about getting some dirt under her nails. But most of all, I love you for the fact that you finally got a promising start to your lonely love-life. You make me smile, you make me snort with glee and you deliver lines that make me feel that you are indeed my long-lost wee shrimp of a kid brother. Leo Valdez, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways. ![]() He fights like a true son of the War God and does his battleaxe daddy proud.Īlso, he morphed from an uncertain, shy, cuddly: And no, I am not making some dreadful pun about his shape-shifting abilities. Romantic drama and unnecessary triangles aside, this book was about Hazel morphing into an assured and powerful demigod.įrank Zhang is a beast. YOU GO, DEATH GIRL! I was brimming with pride whenever Hazel took center-stage. And Hecate? I’m not choosing one of your paths. ![]() Hazel gets off to a rousing start when she delivers the stellar line No more do we read about the self-accusing, dithering daughter of Hades…sorry, Pluto. In this instalment, Hazel comes into her own. Wonderful, brave, glorious Hazel Levesque. With charmspeak at her disposal and fresh produce in projectile mode, Piper is in good form. She does her bit and her ‘Horn of Plenty’ does it’s job too. Piper is another character who works along the sidelines. There is no reason to not like Jason except perhaps, that he will never be Percy Jackson. And some memorable, tear-jerking help it was. Sure, they had some juicy, meaty adventures but it was all in a day’s work for our celebrity demigods. Rick Riordan made the journey special by NOT giving Annabeth and Percy the limelight. They would face hell, fire and brimstone…raised to the power of infinity and make it seem like a walk down a balmy pier. Riptide would roar and grey cells would work in overtime. Percy would have a quip ready and Annabeth would counter it with a much applied eye-roll. We all knew that the duo would have some sincerely cool moves down in Tartarus. Where do I start? Where DOES the gushing appreciation begin? I took my time, paced out my reading experience and enjoyed every single moment of the trip. I didn’t want to rush through it just to get to the juicy bits and keep pace with the gazillion other fans. So, when the book came out and I finally laid my hands on it, I was in a bit of a melancholic haze. Ol’Seaweed Brain has become someone who I genuinely care about. Apart from The Boy Who Lived, no other teen fictional character has held my emotions in such thrall. Although a rational part of my mind accepted the fact that a humdinger of a cliffhanger was needed to push the series ahead, I felt, for lack of more articulate phrasing…Īnd then began the long, agonizing wait for The House of Hades. When The Mark of Athena ended with Percy and Annabeth plunging into Tartarus, my circuits spontaneously combusted. The world of Percy Jackson is no longer just a hugely popular and infinitely addictive fantasy franchise for me. Just a lovely, battered-with-so-many-many-feelings WOW! The House of Hades takes us through Percy and Annabeth’s adventures in Tartarus and also through the endless battles of brawn and brains that the remaining five demigods go through as they collectively fight against time, nasty monsters, duplicitous gods and the most worrisome factor of all : personal demons. If they succeeded and IF, by some…make that… numerous miracles, Percy and Annabeth survived the very embodiment of hell and reached the Doors of Death on Tartarus’ side, then the seven quest members would simultaneously be able to seal the doors and prevent the giants from seeping through and raising Gaea. ![]() It would be Nico’s duty to guide the remaining five half-bloods ( Jason, Piper, Frank, Hazel and Leo) to the mortal side of The Doors of Death. But just before falling, Percy had extracted a promise from Nico, the son of Hades. The Mark of Athena ended with Percy and Annabeth plunging into the dark, insidious and perilous pit of Tartarus. ![]()
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