User blog comment:SayuriDarling/The Blood of Olympus Official Discussion/@comment-1820614-20141013001729/@comment-24399736-20141015222201

In the giant's case, they were just dangerous because there were no gods to help the demigods fight them because of the greek-roman battle (unless you count minor gods, but they seem to always be ignored, right?). As for Gaia, I don't think the way they destroyed her was that bad; what was bad was the amount of people it actually took to do it. I mean Leo, Piper and Jason---just that? It should have been at least all of the seven, and maybe Nico and Reyna.

That leads to the actual main problem: the fact that Frank, Hazel, Percy and Annabeth were ignored. Also-I'm remembering that just now-there were no deaths! Look at the PJO series; Zoe, Bianca, Luke, Silena, Michel Yew, Beckendorf. They were not main characters, but at least they made things look realistic. In THOO, no death at all. Actually, Rick killed the only character people did no like! Not every single bad guy in the world dies.

Plus, ending was not that great, with many unexplained thing, a simple one, for once: "What happened in Albania, should stay in Albania"(something like that), it wasn't explained at all. Other more important things-like Will-Nico relationship-were not explained either. The two main battles lasted, like, thirty seconds.

I hoped for better, but it was still very good.