User blog comment:SayuriDarling/The Blood of Olympus Official Discussion/@comment-25784879-20141130070029/@comment-15860919-20141201182528

I think the majority of people were not as upset about Percy and Annabeth not having povs as the fact that the book was pretty anticlimactic compared to Rick's previous work. What I love about Rick's writing is that you can re-read his books and still have the feeling of danger, you can re-read and still be like "OH NO, THE HEROES ARE GOING TO LOSE, NOOOOOOOOO!!!!". I didn't feel that with BoO even the first time reading it.