A Bowl For the Soul

JOURNEY TO HOUSE OF HADES

"Nico, I've seen a lot of brave things. But what you just did? That was maybe the bravest."- Jason Grace to Nico de Angelo; House of Hades.

Hello bookworms! I've been a fan of all Rick Riordan's work since The Lighting Thief- including the likes of The Percy Jackson and The Olympians and The Kane Chronicles. Now, with his most recent ongoing series, The Heroes of Olympus, I have been waiting for ages to grab a copy of the 5th instalment: The House Of Hades. Let me tell you; it is worth the long-wait! 

My copy of House of Hades. I abandon my other books just to start reading it!

Rick Riordan reading House of Hades

Once again, Riordan has managed to make me roared in laughter with the right jokes thrown around on the right timing yet keeps me on my toes throughout the book due to the suspense and plot twists (you will not see it coming). House of Hades continues from the end of the Mark Of Athena, where the gang has gotten hold of Athena Parthenos; the key to stop the incoming war between the Greeks and the Romans, but Percy and Annabeth fell to the depths of Tartarus during the process and Gaea is soon waking up to take over the world. The future seems bleak for our heroes but as we all know, it will be hard to break these demigods. Now, their friends are on board of Argo II to rescue Percy and Annabeth from Tartarus and to close the Doors of Death (all the vile creatures aka monsters and Titans are escaping from Tartarus through the door to answer Gaea's summon to create havoc) at House Of Hades. 

I have to say this is true!

We can feel each of the characters' dilemmas because Riordan alternated POVs between all the main characters. This time they have to face their personal fears such as helplessness, feeling of being useless, and failing their loved ones. My spotlight is turned to Leo Valdez in House of Hades. He was awesome and funny since the beginning of the series yet had captured little of my attention up until House of Hades. Guaranteed a spot as the comic relief during the story has always been Leo's job. Then in House of Hades, he matured immensely. Towards the end of the book, his jokes and mischief had sobered much and Jason had noticed a faraway light in his best friend's eyes. He no longer pins after Hazel and he made a great promise that will be hard to keep (Spoiler! To skip spoiler, continue directly to the next paragraph: Leo was stranded on Calypso's island and fallen for her. He promised to return and saved her yet this had been an impossible thing to do for centuries- once you leave, you will never find the island again.) So let's see whether Leo and Calypso will become a new ship in the series. I hope it will because I'm ecstatic at the thought of it! I want Leo to find a way back to Calypso or else..well nothing actually since I'm not the author and I don't own any of the characters (sigh).

Paper to Motion Pictures

PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS

     Salutations bookworms! On a random unrelated note, this is just a filler until my next book review and I'm itching to write something all of the sudden (I'm writing this through my phone so excuse the lack of pictures, please). 

Theatrical Release Poster

Have you watched the 2nd Percy Jackson movie? Well, I haven't since it's not released in my hometown yet! I'm crossing my fingers for the movie not to be another letdown though (like the first film Percy Jackson & he Olympians: The Lighting thief - seriously a brunette Annabeth? That's just wrong from the beginning). 

Thank the gods that now they finally realise their grave mistake and decided to dye Alexandra Daddario's aka Annabeth Chase hair to a golden blonde as described by Rick Riordan in the awesome book series. Anyway, aside from that I give two thumbs up for Logan Lerman (he's a wonderful actor to begin with; I mean, have you watched him in The Perks of Being A Wallflower?! and oh, of course, his blue-green eyes earned him candy points). So far the trailer is keeping me on edge and from the looks of the promotional posters, it looks much promising than the first film (let me stress on the fact that they finally dyed Annabeth's supposedly blonde hair to well, blonde. Cue first approval clap from me).

Then again, I found out that Nathan Fillion is playing Hermes the god of thieves, travellers, and messengers. Funny thing is I can't imagine Nathan Fillion as Hermes. though I can't say for sure since I haven't watch the movie yet so that remains unknown. I love their cast for Thalia Grace, though. Paloma Kwiatkowski look exactly as I have imagined the spunky, smart Thalia to look like. So, I'm definitely gonna be queuing once Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters hits the theatre in my city.

Signing off, bookwormsoul.