The House of Hades is the 4th installment to the Heroes of Olympus. The book picks up not to long after the ending of the third book, the Mark of Athena. It picks up starting with Hazel, Leo, and Nico trying to defend the ship against numina montanum (in Latin, ourae in Greek). Hazel keeps thinking on waking up the others, but they (Frank, Piper, and Jason) defended the ship all night, and they had to rest. Leo’s using his Wii Sticks to defend the ship with his Archimedes Sphere.
Overall the book has a lot of action, and it was funny in parts, and you do get some chapters in Tartarus. More of the prophecy is figured out. The seven half-bloods answer the call, to fight the Giants. I’m not quite sure of ‘To Storm or Fire, the World must fall’ because Leo thinks it’s either himself, Jason, or Percy (as those to can create storms). I have no clue to ‘An oath to keep with a final breath’. The forth one is explained. ‘And foes bear arms to the doors of death’. At the start of ‘The Heroes of Olympus’, most (in the book and also lots of people in the mortal/real world) thought it would be the Greeks and Romans unite to close the doors. But it is actually Titans and Giants. The Titan ‘Iapteus/Bob’, and the Giant ‘Damasen’* close the doors.
*Damasen, Bane of Ares, is a peaceful Giant (as Ares is violent, and the Giants are the opposites of the Gods), and is the ONLY giant that is not helping Gaia and the Giants.
Luckily enough, Bob found Annabeth and Percy, and helped them out of Tartarus. They come across a Hermes Shrine, were, some food sacrifices from Camp Half-Blood, and they got to feast on it. Annabeth smartly enough managed to get word to them, by doing a reverse sacrifice thing, and got Rachel to talk to Reyna, and got her to collect the Athena Parthenos. You also find out Reyna’s full name. Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano (or RARA).
This book is a MUST for all. Any age, for males and females, and definitely if you have read the first three books. But before you read this, you should (not saying you have to but this won’t make ANY sense at all) read the other three. Even though it means 1640 pages to finish. READ IT!
