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

Eh, I'm still digesting a lot of it, but the ending battles were MAJOR disappointments to me. Four books building up Gaea. A big deal made in Book 4 how the Primordials were pretty much invincible with a Titan and a giant barely being able to slow Tartarus down...only for Gaea to go down in a few pages with about as much difficulty as one of the giants and less than an Olympian. Why not turn all of the demigods to stone or into plants? Minor gods have done so? And she is supposedly destroyed forever like Kronos. MAJOR DISAPPOINTMENT FOR ALL OF THE BUILDUP!!!

Then you have the giants. Four books of everyone being afraid of them yet they can be defeated fairly easily by demigods or minor gods. Why was everyone so afraid of them? They lacked the special powers or fighting skills that made the Titans or Olympians so dangerous. Polybotes can turn water into poison. Big deal since it barely effected a minor sea goddess. The giants can only be killed by a god and demigod. Not much since a minor god would do. The giants are a bit bigger and stronger than other monsters. So what? Iris,  a MINOR GOD created a barrier that stopped Polybotes. The major Olympians themselves can grow to be a hundred feet tall, chunk lighting from miles away, and fling mountains. The giants can...I got nothing.

Finally, you have Zeus. I know in myth Zeus is an arrogant, hypocritical, jerk to try and put it politely, but he was at least good at covering his own behind and could show some gratitude every once in a while. Some of the myths reflect a decent side to him so you know why he is king. After ten books I am still waiting to see why this guy is king in the Percy Jackson Universe. All I have read is about a guy that has all of the flaws of Myth Zeus magnified, none of the benevolent traits, and is too incompetent and stupid to live. He claims he cannot play favorites, yet we see him do so all the time. He meets Jason, says he is proud of him, and when Jason questions him in the slightest way because Zeus is wrong Zeus is one step away from blasting him. In the end, he comes off as a child the other gods humor and then go behind his back because he is too stupid to see what needs to be done. How does anyone stand this guy?