The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus Book 4): Percy Jackson's Deadliest Adventure Yet (Heroes of Olympus, 4)

Okay bear with me for a second. Objectively mark of athena is the better book. It's so incredibly well paced, so excuting and rewarding and i think the house of hades lacks that in a few passages. I personally think some of the victories are not as well written, they come more out of the blue than in the last book, not all of them quite as deserved. I think there are some pacing issues and sometimes i wished for longer chapters (that's a shocker i know i love short chapters). BUT big but. I am still an objective reader and when there is percabeth i will like it. Sorry if you don't want to hear that but it is what it is we all need to get over it cause it won't ever change. I think the choice of having them WALK THROUGH HELL literally through an entire book and not have them magically saved cause they're the main characters is genius and quite frankly, refreshing for a middle grade / YA book. Not many books have the balls to do this shit to their main characters and i respect it even tho i wanted to grab them, wrap them in a blanket and keep them safe forever the entire time. I also think the addition of nico in this book is great, especially showing his distrust but also the other agro II menmbers distrust towards him. It makes for some interesting and well written dynamics. Great book. Maybe the reread even made it a little better for me cause i understand it better. Very little notes onto the next one o7

Besser als der vorige Band, aber dennoch total langatmig. Man hätte auch hier gut kürzen können. Mit Jasons, aber vor allem mit Franks, POVs konnte ich einfach absolut nichts anfangen. Vor allem Frank kann ich nicht leiden. Percys und Annabeths POVs in Tartarus fandom ich jedoch super - leider waren diese Kapitel immer extrem kurz im Vergleich zu den anderen. Nico ist mir persönlich zu kurz gekommen, aber okay. Er ist keiner der sieben Helden.. Bin froh, nur noch einen Teil vor mir zu haben und die Serie dann abschließen zu können.

*review to come*

This is definitely my favorite book of the Heroes of Olympus series so far. I loved all the different POV‘s, and it was suspenseful all the way through. I just love all these characters so much and I’m not ready for the last book in this series, because i already know who dies (got spoiled on tiktok)… Also i don’t think i’ll ever love a book couple as much as I love Percabeth, ugh i can’t I love them so much together and individually as well. "I’ve seen a lot of brave things. But what you just did? That was maybe the bravest.“ "They’d been through so much together, at this point Percy was part of her- a sometimes annyoing part, sure, but definitely a part she could not live without." "He didn’t want to stop. He wanted to choke this goddess. He wanted to watch her drown in her own poison. He wanted to see just how much misery Misery could take.“ 4,5 stars ✨

4.25 stars

gods the scenes of percy and annabeth were heart-wrenching and single-handedly made this my favorite part in all of the pjo+hoo series

“Tell the sun and stars hello for me.” I wish I could read this book for the first time again. It's such a good book, but it would have been an even more intense reading experience if I hadn't known the twists and reveals.

This is so much more intense than the other Riordan books to me. I loved seeing more of Percy and Annabeth together and the detailed descriptions of Tartarus.

This has to be the best one so far

And now I'll have to wait until next October for the next book ... ugh. Almost as bad as waiting for the next HP was.