User blog comment:SayuriDarling/The Blood of Olympus Official Discussion/@comment-4887996-20141012160835/@comment-24065371-20141017222256

I too enjoyed the book. I was very pleased with the story for reyna and nico especially since they got their own chapters and i was pleased but slightly surprised that hedge survived.

As for the word "gay" i do not think they needed to use the word or an equivalent, it seemed quite clear with the tension between will and nico and nico having the thoughts "what i am" after hedge and reyna experience what he felt when he met cupid. Also i enjoyed his conversation with percy "so..." jackson

jason was fully realized here and i was very impressed by pipers development.

Apollo's "immaturity" did not surprise me, he has been like that and they have built up that many of the gods by their aging still are teenagers and tend to appear that way because it fits their personality, apollo was scared. Maybe it is because i read the greek gods by percy jackson first but seemed perfectly fitting for apollo and artemis to act that way.

As for nike a little annoying, but her and hygeine goddess' actions were acceptable sillyness that has been present in all books.