I know that you don't want to read some long intro, so behold the cover for House of Hades!
Okay so where to start...Well I think the cover is perfect. This is my favorite HoO cover. I have no complaint with the art work; I give the cover 100,000,000 out of 5 stars. However, I do have one thing that scares me, but I will get to that in a minute.
I love that you can see the Doors of Death in the background. If you really look at Percy, he looks a LITTLE on edge. But that my have something to do with the fact that he is in Tartarus with a whole bunch of crazy monsters that hate him.
Speaking of the monsters, how are they going to rest for even a millo-second? Half of the monsters were killed by Percy and the other half just want to kill any half-blood that they meet. That would be enough to make me more than insane, then again this is Percy and Annabeth were talking about; they may end up slightly crazy, but they will come out alive. (She says very very VERY hopefully!) No, in all seriousness, no matter how many times we freak out and say that they are going to die, we all know that Rick Riordan can't kill off Percy ad Annabeth- he could, but I doubt he will.
I know Annabeth is going to have a great time in Tartarus with her broken ankle. At least she has Percy to help her out.
Now I don't want to really scare you are any thing, but take another look at the cover. Do you see anything? Anything that makes you nervous? No? Yes? Kind of? If not, really study the cover for a while. Once you notice it, you will always focus on it. See it yet?
I noticed it almost instantly and it makes me very nervous for the book. If you haven't noticed it yet, then look at Percy. Now look at his face, specifically his eyes. Here it is zoomed in for you:
This is the only thing about the cover that makes me wish that we had a different cover. But I am sure it is all fine...Right? (*freaked out and nervous smile*) They'll be fine...I know it! (*REALLY freaked out nervous smile*)
Now try to look at the cover without immediately looking at Percy's eyes. Hard, right?
Now that all that is out of they way, let's move on from the cover to my "predictions" for the book.
I don't really make predictions for books, but I am going to predict the narrators. I predict that we will have Percy, Jason, Hazel, and Frank, but not Annabeth because she was really big in this last book. I would say Nico, but Rick Riordan has said that he will not have a PoV. I am pretty positive that Percy and Jason will definitely be two of the PoVs. I also think that the book will start with Jason's PoV.
I am curious to see Nico "take charge" and become more like the leader of the quest. He will probably be hesitant at first not really knowing how the others will respond to the youngest one on the quest giving them commands. If anyone was have a problem with Nico giving commands, it would be Jason. I don't see that happening, but if something like that was to happen I don't see anyone else being the cause.
Why don't I see that happening? Well...everyone (Yes, including Jason) REALLY respects Percy, and since Percy told Nico to lead the quest to the doors, no one will want to argue.
I only have one prediction left. And it is what the cliffhanger will be. I predict that it will be one of two things. It will either be Percy and Annabeth are just getting to the doors/about to open the doors or it will be the Leo (Yes, his name gets to go first!), Jason, Piper, Hazel, Frank, Nico, and Coach Hedge about to open the doors to let a waiting Percy and Annabeth out. I believe that it will be the first way, though. But either way, it will involve the door, and I can pretty much grantee the we will all die a little inside after reading the end.
Well I think that is enough for now.
Please comment below. I am REALLY interested in hearing what you have to say about the House of Hades cover and your predictions for the book.
Thanks for reading!
Shelby
Daughter of Athena
Ok, I might seem weird because not very many people comment, but anyway, my sister brought up a point to me last night. In order for the Doors of Death to be closed, someone has to stay on the Tartarus side, right? My sister has a prediction that I think makes the most sense out of alot that I've heard. She believes that Nico will stay on the Tartarus side of the Doors. I agree with her. What do you think?
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Daughter of Apollo
I too agree that Nico will be the one to close the doors from Tartarus' side. I believe that Percy (and possible a few of the others) will try to convince Nico to come up with another plan, but with no success.
DeleteI don't think that Nico will be stuck I Tartarus for too long. Why not? Well he is a son of Hades,I know that Hades doesn't rule over Tartarus, but it seems to me that Hades would try to find away to get Nico out. Either Hades will let Nico out or the gods will let him out f as a reward for bravery or something like that.
To sum it all up, yes I think that Nico will be the one to close the doors from Tartarus' side, but when it is all other he will be in the end. I least I hope that is what is going to happen.
Thanks you for commenting!
Shelby
Daughter of Athena
At first I thought that Nico was going to close the Doors from the inside, but then my friend and I came up with an idea we hope is true. OK, so, you know how some people think Luke is going to come back through the Doors? Well, we were talking, and then we realized, what if Percy and or Annabeth are about to close and lock the Doors from the inside, and the Luke runs up and is like "I promised I'd protect Annabeth and Thalia. I'll close the doors." And then some big monster comes and Luke's like "GO! I got this!" And they run through the Door and Luke closes it just in time. (I came up with some of that just now, but most of it we both thought of.) I hope this happens, then no one has to die! (That would be good!)
ReplyDeleteCora,
Daughter of Athena
the cover looks almost something straight out from a horror book. Then again it does make sense considering the situation. But man is it a cool cover.
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