Vocabulary in House of Hades

The vocab in the book, The house of Hades, is very informal. He uses words that kids our age use because almost all of the characters in Rick Riordan's book are teenagers. This helps the overall effect of the story because it makes more sense. It wouldn't make sense if a bunch of teenagers that don't even go to high school were using lots of high level words. It the same way that it wouldn't make sense if college professors were using low level vocab words. Also, this book is mainly for kids and teenagers, not adults. So if the author put elevated diction, younger kids would have a harder time understanding, and loose interest. This creates a great effect to help keep the attention of the reader.