What I Plan to Read Next

I am not totally sure what I am going to read next. The next book in the series doesn't come out for about another year, and it will be the last book in the series. I didn't really enjoy this book, so i might not even read the last book when it comes out. I might read The Lord of the Rings, and the Hobbit because of the Hobbit movies that have come out. What order should I read the them in though? The Hobbit and then Lord of the Rings or the other way around?  I know that the Hobbit takes place before Lord of the Rings, but the movies came out first. Do you have any suggestions for what I should read?

How the Author Built Suspense (House of Hades)

In my book, The House of Hades, Rick Riordan does an absolutely tremendous job of building suspense. As some of you know, this book is the 4th of the series. The series is called "The Heroes of Olympus", and the previous book in the series is The Mark of Athena. That book left off on a huge cliff hanger, creating lots of suspense for the author to use. Also, in my book, its kind of telling two stories at once because the 7 original demigods got split up. This creates an opportunity for the author to end a chapter of one party on in suspense and continues the next chapter with the other party. Then the reader wants to figure out what is going to happen, and then he/she wants to read more. That is the main purpose of suspense; to make the reader want to read more. It almost makes him never want to put the book down. Suspense gives the reader feelings, like hope, fear, etc.- it can give many kinds of feeling that makes you want to keep reading.

Why I chose this Book (House of Hades)

I chose this book because it was the next book in a series called The Heros of Olympus. This is a series about 7 demigods who go on a quest to stop Mother Earth from taking over the world. She wants to use giants to do that. Giants are creatures that cant be killed by either a demigod or god. They have to work together. This is part of why I like the book, because the plot is really interesting. Also, there isn't  really one main character. It is 7 different demigods that all work together and are equally important.