The mythological fantasy The House of Hades by, Rick Riordan was a humor filled book full of suspense and curiosity. After reading the book it left me with a thousand questions that only the next book could answer. Of course this particular book would be hard to follow if you haven’t read the earlier ones in the series, but it still leaves you on the edge of your chair waiting to get to the next chapter.

Rick Riordan’s style of writing is cut to the chase while including every detail to paint a clear, vivid picture in your mind. His newest piece, The House of Hades is a sequel to the book The Mark of Athena, and is about seven prophesied demigods on a quest to stop Gaea (the greek earth goddess) from rising and taking over the world. Percy, the main demigod of the seven, and his girlfriend Annabeth fall into Tartarus. Their main goal: find the doors of death and destroy them so Gaea can’t finish rising. Leo, the son of Hephaestus, has built a flying ship called the Argo II. The demigods use this ship to travel to their desired destinations. This gives the book no certain setting, although, that doesn’t change the way I feel about the book and won’t change the way you feel either. Along the way there is a lot of breakthroughs, comedy, and struggles. All contribute to the wonderful connotation The House of Hades brings to mind.

This book was astonishingly amazing. It satisfied all my wants and needs that a book must have. I became more interested with every chapter, considering that at the end of each one there is a cliff hanger to get you to keep reading. There were a few chapters that didn’t have a lot of action but there were far too few to even make me think about them. I especially liked the historical accuracy Rick used. All of it, the monster names, gods and goddesses’ names and even the geography is all correct. I highly recommend this book to people who want to read a book that is interesting at every page while being a surprising and suspenseful one too.