Reviews tagging 'Death'

The House of Hades by Rick Riordan

48 reviews

elliott_the_clementine's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Death, War, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse and Abandonment

Minor: Racism and Sexism

theintrovertsbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny inspiring 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Vomit, Outing, Murder, Mental illness, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Death of parent, Deadnaming, Cannibalism, Abandonment, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Grief, Blood, Violence, War, Torture, Body horror, and Animal death

xandra_lyn's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Death

pulchritudinous_panda's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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

Easily the best book on HoO. I loved the developments here, especially with Hazel and Frank. We meet Calypso again and Jason and Nico bond. BTW poor Nico. He shouldn't have had to go through all he does. Overall, I loved this book so much!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

em_of_swags's review

• 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

4.25

only knowing some tidbits is weird like I knew Nico is gay, but wdym he was outed by the love god😭

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Violence, Outing, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Torture, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Homophobia

wiktoria_bojda's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Outing, and Violence

Moderate: Death and Blood

rafacolog's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Blood, and Death

kathrynleereads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

4.0

 Having read more than a fair few of Rick Riordan’s books in the past, I began the House of Hades familiar with Riordan’s ability to intertwine humor and tragedy. That being said when the book opened with the downtrodden crew of the Argo II fighting monsters and Percy and Annabeth slowly trudging through Tartarus, it was clear that Riordan was taking his talent to a whole new level.

Without Percy to placate the sea, the crew of the Argo II is forced to travel over land in their attempt to reach the House of Hades, where they hope to rendezvous with Percy and Annabeth to close the Doors of Death. The House of Hades is packed with glimmers of hope, moments of despair, and more than a few instances of desperate demigods completely winging it.

Riordan took the time he needed to sort out the issues and the mythology, not rushing the plot, but not letting it drag either. My only disappointment was the way the two timelines connect. On the Argo II, a month passes while the crew makes their way to the House of Hades, but in Tartarus, Annabeth and Percy only manage to find time to sleep a handful of times. It wasn’t clear whether this was supposed to represent the near-constant-torture of existing in Tartarus, or if it was simply an oversight in the two storylines.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death of parent, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Outing, Violence, Vomit, Death, Blood, and Torture

chronicacademia's review

adventurous funny slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Sexism, War, Abandonment, Bullying, Death, Outing, and Violence

abby_can_read's review

adventurous emotional 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

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I loved this book. It was amazing. The plot kept me engaged and enthralled, and on the edge of my seat a lot of the time. The characters were amazing and their relationships were strong.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Outing, and Violence

Moderate: Homophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Blood

Minor: Animal death and Gore