User blog comment:Calypso Harris/Reunion of Percy with Friends/@comment-4515675-20111218171453

Seven books, no less than seven wonderful books from RR and not one of them started from the exact same moment as the previous one ended yet everyone believes that he's going to change the pattern now? No people, I honestly believe that MoA won't start with the landing of Argo II and the reunion. RR said it himself that he has a reason for stopping the book there. If MoA starts from the exact same time then what would be the logic in ending SoN then? To me I think it's pretty obvious that either the book will start before the Argo II left Camp Half-Blood or at least a week/month after the Greeks landed. Just because the actual reunion isn't written doesn't mean we won't know what happened. We'll have at least three PoVs in the next book that will surely recall the moment the Romans met the Greeks and in the same time continue with the action but still giving us an idea about the reunion.

I'm just saying that RR has very specific patterns that he never changed until now so I don't know why he would start from MoA when there are tons of ways to either skip the actual reunion but still talk about it or make the opening scene at least a week before the said landing.