Reviews

The House of Hades by Rick Riordan

manhaa's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Things I loved ♥️:

• ✨Nico di Angelo✨. Literally my 2nd fav Riordanverse character(after Percy ofc) 
• Dark Percy 😍and how he protected Annabeth 🥺
• Nico just taking care of Bob and telling him about Percy all this time

Things I didn't like so much:

• Bob😭😭. He didn't deserve to be left.
• Percys attitude towards Bob at first.

The book itself was sooo good🤩

k_brown02's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

emla_format's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

averagewitch's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

yinlin's review against another edition

5.0

Rating: 5.0 stars

"I figure the universe is basically like a machine. I don’t know who made it, if it was the Fates, or the gods, or capital-G God, or whatever. But it chugs along the way it’s supposed to most of the time. Sure, little pieces break and stuff goes haywire once in a while, but mostly... things happen for a reason."

I love my sons Leo Valdez and Nico di Angelo😭

willowsmeanders's review against another edition

4.0

The House of Hades star breakdown & thoughts:
1. +2 stars for Jason Grace and Piper McLean's character development. I loved the fact that Piper got to kill some monsters and stand as her own character, because she spent The Lost Hero to The Mark of Athena being a satellite love interest for Jason Grace. Speaking of Jason, he surprisingly also developed slightly visible character traits since MoA.
2. +1 star for Frank Zhang/Hazel Levesque romance. Even though I mostly hate the romance in this series, the fact that they were their own characters while remaining in a relationship pleased me immensely. Bonus 0.5 points for quitting the Frank-Hazel-Leo love triangle.
3. -1 star for Percabeth. I hate that they went from amazing characters with compelling personalities to idiots who can't think of anything except each other. Annabeth's been annoying me since The Lost Hero, but Percy went from one of my favorite characters to a hormonal cardboard who wants to settle down with his first girlfriend.
4. -1 for

Spoiler

the Tartarus subplot. The gods, demigods, Grover, and Nico talked about it as if it were Hell, and the way they said it was actually scary. In HoH, however, the only time Tartarus felt real was when Percy tortured Akhlys. Mostly it was "Cute Percabeth Moments Playground".

UPDATE(2/7/19): I've decided to upgrade my rating to 3.5 stars so this doesn't have the same rating as The Mark of Athena (actually The Mark of Athena, But There's Actually More Percabeth And Jasper Angst And A Love Triangle Than Anything About The Athena Parthenos, but whatever).

lrcaudel's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

lindak_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

lollinof's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

luisaroesch's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful inspiring slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5