User blog comment:Hyperborean/"The House of Hades" – official expectations blog/@comment-10218971-20130713012345/@comment-3146930-20130714195857

Too violent? Look at the deaths of characters like Silena or Gwen. Silena was covered in acid from head to foot by the drakon. Gwen's death is very descriptive; even if she did come back to life later. Even after she is alive again and they have to remove the weapon from her body, that is a little...ew.

For Rick Riordan to kill off some no-name Senator or even a named one wouldn't be that hard to believe.