November Book Poster
By Samantha Heuthorst
Book: The House of Hades
Series: Heroes of Olympus Book 4
Genre: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Suspense, Dystopia
Number of Pages: 583
Characters:
- Percy Jackson: Primary, Protagonist, one of the seven demigods in the Prophecy, son of Poseidon
- Annabeth Chase: Primary, Protagonist, one of the seven demigods in the Prophecy, daughter of Athena
- Hazel Levesque: Primary, Protagonist, one of the seven demigods in the Prophecy, daughter of Pluto
- Frank Zhang: Primary, Protagonist, one of the seven demigods in the Prophecy, son of Mars
- Leo Valdez: Primary, Protagonist, one of the seven demigods in the Prophecy, son of Hephaestus
- Jason Grace: Primary, Protagonist, one of the seven demigods in the Prophecy, son of Jupiter
- Piper McLean: Primary, Protagonist, one of the seven demigods in the Prophecy, daughter of Aphrodite
- Gaea: Secondary, Antagonist, the goddess Earth, the main antagonist of the series, though not mentioned as much in this book. There are many other smaller anatagonist mentioned throughout this book instead
- Nico DiAngelo: Secondary, Protagonist, a demigod son of Hades, "brother" of Hazel, not involved in the Great Prophecy
- Reyna: Secondary, Protagonist, a demigod daughter of Bellona, not involved in the Great Prophecy
- Coach Hedge: Secondary, Protagonist, a satyr who works at Camp-Half Blood, helps the eight demigods that are on the Argo II
- Bob: Secondary, Protagonist, the Titan Iaeptus, lost his memory in the River Lethe and was renamed Bob by Percy Jackson, helps Percy and Annabeth while they are in Tartarus
Story Line:
Who's telling the Story: Each demigod of the Prophecy of Seven is telling the story. That means that for each chapter someone else tells it. The people telling it are Hazel, Percy, Annabeth, Frank, Leo, Jason, and Piper.
Themes: I think one would be War – glory, necessity, pain, tragedy because this whole series leads up to the war between the giants and the seven demigods. Another one would be Heroism – real and perceived because each of these people is a real hero and throughout this series (and the previous series (there were two characters from that in this book)) finds out how powerful they actually are and that in some way the are important. I think another one is Fate and Free Will because in Rick Riordan's Greek/Roman books there always is a prophecy that the characters fate will depend on, and they make their choices based on that. One last simple one is Good vs. Bad because the demigods in this book (the good guys) are trying to stop Gaea, the Giants, and her army (the bad guys).