The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus, The, Book Four) (The Heroes of Olympus)
Rick Riordan
Language: English
Pages: 720
ISBN: 1423146778
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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didn’t expect you to get me an Independence Day present or anything…unless you wanted to.” “It’s not that. My grandmother…she always told me that seven was an unlucky number. It was a ghost number. She didn’t like it when I told her there would be seven demigods on our quest. And July is the seventh month.” “Yeah, but…” Leo tapped his fingers nervously on the table. He realized he was doing the Morse code for I love you, the way he used to do with his mom, which would have been pretty
just feel better if we ran across Jupiter. Or Minerva. Anybody but Neptune, really.” Leo climbed into the dry fountain. He put his hand on the statue’s pedestal, and a rush of impressions surged through his fingertips. He sensed Celestial bronze gears, magical levers, springs, and pistons. “It’s mechanical,” he said. “Maybe a doorway to the dwarfs’ secret lair?” “Ooooo!” shrieked a nearby voice. “Secret lair?” “I want a secret lair!” yelled another voice from above. Jason stepped back, his
of tiny ledges—but they kept climbing down. Percy’s body went on autopilot. His fingers cramped. He felt blisters popping up on his ankles. He got shaky from hunger. He wondered if they would die of starvation, or if the firewater would keep them going. He remembered the punishment of Tantalus, who’d been permanently stuck in a pool of water under a fruit tree but couldn’t reach either food or drink. Jeez, Percy hadn’t thought about Tantalus in years. That stupid guy had been paroled briefly
Percy was pretty sure they weren’t ketchup. She fixed him with her glowing red eyes and bared her fangs. “Percy Jackson,” she cooed. “How awesome! I don’t even have to return to the mortal world to destroy you!” PERCY RECALLED HOW DANGEROUS Kelli had been the last time they’d fought in the Labyrinth. Despite those mismatched legs, she could move fast when she wanted to. She’d dodged his sword strikes and would have eaten his face if Annabeth hadn’t stabbed her from behind. Now she had four
recognition. Their faces looked so much alike.… Annabeth bit back a curse. Of course they looked alike. Hyperion was his brother. Hyperion was the Titan lord of the east. Iapetus, Bob, was the lord of the west. Take away Bob’s broom and his janitor’s clothes, put him in armor and cut his hair, change his color scheme from silver to gold, and Iapetus would have been almost indistinguishable from Hyperion. “Bob,” she said, “we should go.” “Gold, not silver,” Bob murmured. “But he looks like me.”