How long does it take to read House of Hades?
House of Hades by Rick Riordan takes about 10 hours 57 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 4 of The Heroes of Olympus
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About 10 hours 57 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2013. 597 pages, about 164,175 words. Written for children.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 15 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 57 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 50 minutes |
The page count is the median across 35 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Hazel stands at a crossroads. She and the remaining crew of the Argo II could return home with the Athena Parthenos statue and try to stop Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter from going to war. Or they could continue their quest to find the House of Hades, where they might be able to open the Doors of Death, rescue their friends Percy and Annabeth from Tartarus, and prevent monsters from being reincarnated in the mortal world. Whichever road they decide to take, they have to hurry, because time is running out. Gaea, the bloodthirsty Earth Mother, has set the date of August 1 for her rise to power. Annabeth and Percy are overwhelmed. How will the two of them make it through Tartarus? Starving, thirsty, and in pain, they are barely able to stumble on in the dark and poisonous landscape that holds new horrors at every turn. They have no way of locating the Doors of Death. Even if they did, a legion of Gaea's strongest monsters guards the Doors on the Tartarus side. Annabeth and Percy can't exactly launch a frontal assault. Despite the terrible odds, Hazel, Annabeth, Percy, and the other demigods of the prophecy know that there is only one choice: to attempt the impossible. Not just for themselves, but for everyone they love. Even though love can be the riskiest choice of all. Join the demigods as they face their biggest challenges yet in The House of Hades, the hair-raising penultimate book in the best-selling Heroes of Olympus series.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Roman Mythology, Greek Mythology, Quests (Expeditions), Fiction, Camps
