The House of Hades

Hello all, I stopped reading 'Great Expectations' (sorry... just that I have been waiting for like a month for reading 'The House of Hades') and started on the 'House of Hades' by Rick Riordan. I read 276 pages out of 583.

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      This book is a fantasy book based on Greek Mythology (as you can (maybe) see from the title), so it has all of the Greek gods, monsters, creatures, etc. But its setting is in modern times, so it is like the 2010 or more in the book. 

      I will explain the plot of the book. Percy Jackson and Annabeth, two of the 9 (ish) main characters in the book, who are also demigods (half-human, half-god; one of their parents is a god or a goddess), fall into Tartarus, a pit where all the monsters and the Titans go or stay in to reform after they are killed in the mortal world. So it isn't part of the mortal world, and it is sort of like hell (as it is described in the book). They have to survive and try to reach the Doors of Death, the doors which connect the mortal world and Tartarus so the reformed monsters can go out again. The doors have been opened by Gaia, the goddess of Earth, or earth itself (a.k.a. the evil Mother Earth that tries to destroy the world), which is bad, because the monsters would be traveling freely in and out of the two worlds. Percy and Annabeth and their friends outside Tartarus have to close it from both inside and outside, since the doors can be closed that way. But while Percy and Annabeth are traveling to it, they face a lot of problems, since everything there are designed to torture or kill, plus filled with monsters. Once, when they are about to die from the attack of the empousai (vampire-demon creatures), they meet Bob, who is actually the Titan Iapetus who got his memory wiped out by Percy before, and who believes that Percy is a friend. He helps Percy and Annabeth through Tartarus. 

      I chose to read this book because I am obsessed in Greek Myths, and because I am also a Percy Jackson and the Heroes of Olympus fan. I read every other book in both series except for this one, so I chose and wanted to read this book. 

      An unknown word was: haggard. 

      Definition: Looking exhausted and unwell, especially from fatigue, worry, or suffering (source: https://www.google.rs/search?q=definition+of+haggard&source=lnms&sa=X&ei=RBJAU766O8ittAak3YD4BQ&ved=0CAUQ_AUoAA&biw=1360&bih=643&dpr=1 ) 

      The sentence it was in was this: "Bob's face looked haggard and careworn, as if he suddenly felt the weight of all his centuries.