Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4531192-20141008075409/@comment-4515675-20141022063142

SayuriDarling wrote: Himeyuka, I would just like to say I greatly missed your essay long rants. It's been too long, lol.

LOL yes I have quite a reputation haha. But you know, I'm disappointed about being disappointed. This was the last book and I was expecting so much more? Reyna and Nico's chapters were great and Piper finally got some well deserved character development, but there were many fillers in Leo and Jason's chapters that could have easily been replaced with PoVs from the other characters.

Also, I'm pretty pissed that Percy was made to look like an idiot in this book and his major role taken away from him. Like RR said in a recent interview that he didn't write the whole fatal flaw scene because Percy is too popular? And it would have taken away from the other characters? Even though Leo has the most book time in this whole series and had a PoV in four of the five books? Also, whose fault is it that Percy and Annabeth are so popular? You can't bring them back from the previous series, give them major roles and in the last book just push them to the side and complain how ppl like them too much. I'm sorry you couldn't write Piper and Jason as appealing characters? I'm sorry you didn't think of adding Reyna and Nico to the seven from the start? I'm sorry that the one character that ppl liked from the new trio you decided to butcher in the last book and make him look like a douche?

A lot of build up for many plots that turned into dust, a lot of focus on romantic relationships while family and friendship is pushed to the side and yet he thinks the fandom is to blame because they love Percy too much? Yes we love Percy but he's the one that pushed him in the spotlight from the very beginning and now he's angry that we don't like the new characters just as much? Oh wow. Also, what's his excuse for not adding Frank and Hazel? Frank has literally half the book time Leo has. Is he going to tell me that while Percy and Annbaeth are too popular, Frank and Hazel aren't so popular and the fans might not have enjoyed their PoVs? Because it looks to me like he's just coming up with excuses.