Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4531192-20141008075409/@comment-4515675-20141024065718

Annabeth and Percy wrote: It really annoys the hell out of me when you guys repeat what others wrote. But Percy and Annabeth will get their major parts back in the crossover with Carter and Sadie, which I can't wait for, so don't worry about it.

I don't think that us agreeing that BoO had a disappointing ending and RR's bad choices of PoVs has anything to do with copying one another. Also, yes there will be a crossover but if you read the previous ones it has little to do with the actual series? It feels more like the filler episodes of an anime.

RR is responsible for bringing Percy and Annabeth as major characters in HoO. That's the real problem here. They were his safe card to use in order to make sure the series will be popular. He brought them in, built on major roles and when he saw that people didn't like Jason and Piper at all, he decided to strip them away from said roles which is really bad writing from his part. Many plots that he took time to build through the series just fell flat in the end. And why? Because it was his own fault that he couldn't make Jason and Piper just as appealing? He can't force us to like characters but that's exactly what he tried to do in BoO. Do you know that the fandom on tumblr had a lot of headcanons that actually came true in this book? Because, as I've stated from the very beginning of the series, RR is quite aware of what happens in his fandom.

This is the reason why half of the book feels like it was taken straight out a fanfiction, because I've seen similar endings to RR's in about a dozen stories on FF. Also, PJO had the same target audience and it was written at least ten times better? I feel this also has to do with the fact that Disney bought the rights for the publishing before TLH came out.