User blog comment:SayuriDarling/The Blood of Olympus Official Discussion/@comment-1972847-20141026042037

Hi, so I've never posted here before. Here are my thoughts anyway (SPOILER ALERT): I enjoyed the book. It wasn't great and it wasn't my favorite but I was satisfied. The characters' endings were all how I would've wanted them to be. That said I had quite a few problems with it. 1) I was fine with Jason and Piper getting the spotlight, they've really developed and become better characters, but if this is the last time we'll be seeing Percy and Annabeth in the near (or distant) future, I want more than, "we're going to college together, bye." It was very anticlimactic for their storyline considering all that the readers have been through with then. 2) The book lacked intensity. Badly. The entire series failed to kill anyone I remotely cared about (that sounds kinda terrible, but whatever). In PJO, especially BotL and TLO, I was said when someone died. It didn't even have to be someone I was familiar with. The books made me care. These did not, and I was never really worried that someone would be killed. The final battles were pretty concise, and not in a good way. They weren't epic or grand and the defeat of Gaia was clever and amusing at best. And when the gods came to fight the giants, I was really hoping Annabeth would have some remark about deus ex machina haha. 3) Speaking of the fight with the giants... Groups of three or so demigods with the aid of some random deity have struggled to defeat one giant throughout the entire series. Then the Olympians plus seven half-bloods make short work of... A very large amount. I don't know. That part just doesn't sit well with me. 4) I get that Jason, Piper, and Leo were here at the beginning of this whole ordeal, but if Rick wanted to bring this thing full circle, he should have focused on Jason and Piper more in earlier books than he did. That way, the end of this one would seem more appropriate. 5) I already touched on this, but somebody major should've died. That would've gotten my blood pumping. Notes- 1) For whatever reason, I was expecting Leo to be stuck on Ogygia (I may not have spelled that correctly) with Calypso at the end. That would've given me my fill of bittersweet I think. 2) This is more of a complaint with the series as a whole, but I think there were several plot points that not a lot came out of. The firewood and Ella come to mind. 3) I have no complaints with Nico and Reyna's stuff. And Coach Hedge is pretty legit. I apologize about the long post... Thanks for reading if you did!