User blog comment:Hermione Chase/"The Blood of Olympus" Expectations/@comment-3146930-20140102211408/@comment-24065371-20140104194115

The most notable issue with the pacing i find is the powers, all these power ups come in this book which is very unusual (i am glad they happened, they were definetly needed) since we spent two books with the characters and they were so pathetic in comparison, how did they manage any of this, and the character development has mostly come through these later books, nico, frank, hazel, jason

Leo already had some i admit, but the others had very little

Maybe the issue was rick was concerned that a "sequel" series would not be well received