9/15/2023 0 Comments House of hades![]() ![]() And this is why Nico’s painful confession, dragged out of him against his will through taunting, necessity, magic, and a beating, hurt me so much. He’d have had to fear forced labor, unethical scientific experimentation, gas chambers…. Growing up and coming to realize that they were attracted to the same gendered characters, they might have feared bullying and social isolation, but in the 1930s and 1940s, had Nico not been whisked away to America and to the Lotus Hotel, he would have had to fear being dragged from his house and thrust into a crowded railcar. Had it been any other character with the exception of Hazel, they would have been children of the 1990s. Nico’s distrust because of his sexual orientation and his fear that he will be rejected for it ought to be worse for him than for any other character who could reveal himself to be of a LGBT orientation because he is a child of World War II Europe. I have a greater understanding of the term “head canon” than I perhaps ever had before. It reveals more about Nico’s prickly hesitation to try to belong or to become close to anyone.īut Riordan did not continue (or has not yet continued) along the plot trail as far as I wanted him to do (for the sake of good storytelling not because it is pleasant). Revealing Nico’s sexual preference within the contexts of the plot, I am more open to hearing about it. Though I recognize that Rowling revealed Dumbledore’s sexual orientation because she was prompted by a fan’s question and because to do so showed her support for LGBT community and because it did not effect her plot, doing so did not effect the plot or explain any actions that otherwise seemed out-of-character (I would have believed-and do believe-that Dumbledore’s instinct would not have been to kill Grindelwald, even if he and Grindelwald had never loved one another, and I did not question why it took so long for Dumbledore to confront Grindelwald because it didn’t effect the present plotline). Riordan has said that Nico’s non-heterosexual orientation arose organically, that the character told him rather than Riordan telling Nico-and that’s as it should be I’m pleased to hear it. The big story around The House of Hades is likely to be Nico’s revealed sexual orientation. Leo’s story is given a sharp plot twist, that I think has all of us cheering for him. Tartarus’ description never failed to be appropriately terrifying and disgusting. Riordan questions as he never has before the morality of the demigods’ way of life, killing to survive and drawing black-and-white battle lines, where all monsters are bad ( Percy Jackson and the Olympians has previously questioned if all demigods are good). ![]() Given all that, I was pleasantly surprised by the comparatively happy ending of The House of Hades.įrank’s and Jason’s characters are greatly built up in this latest novel, as is Percy’s. The third book, The Mark of Athena, left our heroes literally plunging to a fate worse than death, and it didn’t seem likely that a rescue was possible without death or the sacrifice of someone to that worse than death fate. It was a long wait for The House of Hades, fourth in The Heroes of Olympus, the sequel series to Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan. ![]()
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