User blog comment:Hermione Chase/"The Blood of Olympus" Expectations/@comment-11863423-20131010201002/@comment-1867880-20131012084500

No Roman is fat; that was made clear in The Son of Neptune. Frank is no where close to being fat or annoying. He is essentially the Neville Longbottom of the Heroes of Olympus. Nothing about him is annoying. He is one of my top ten favorite characters, as is Neville (in Harry Potter).

The only character of whom I would ever consider annoying is Octavian. He's as annoying as Borsk Fey'lya -- any Star Wars fan would get that. He is the worst sort of politician. That's the only mortal character I have ever resented in the Camp Half-Blood series.

I would say Piper was annoying. But after reading The House of Hades, I realize that I was wrong about her. Her charmspeak is much more powerful. She learned how to sword fight. And she now seems to care about more than just Jason and herself. When Khione threw Leo out of the sky, Piper actually cared. She's not as narcissistic as I'd thought.

And to SayuriDarling. what's wrong with Jason, Frank, and Hazel? I love those characters. And I don't think Percy and Annabeth were sentimental in the slightest. Their chapters were my favorite in The House of Hades. And anyway, how could they not be sentimental, when they're in Tartarus?