Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25044056-20150424034356

I wanna get this out of the way, I hated Blood of Olympus. The pacing was horrible. The Giant army and Gaea which were built up since the Lost Hero were defeated way to quickly and way too easily. The battle of heroes and gods united against the Giants should have made up the bulk of the book, instead the Giant army is defeated in one chapter. I should have at least been invested in the story to find out which hero would die but the presence of the physicians cure as a plot device took all of that dramatic tension away.

The worst part is that in the one book where everything is supposed to come together and everything is supposed to wrap up neatly, RR ended the story with a bunch of plot threats unresolved.

1:Apollo's fate at the end is uncertain, he's still being punished at the end of BoO and the power of prophecy (Including the Oracle of Delphi) isn't working. Rachel and Ella are trying to reconstruct the Sibyline books to get prophecies from but they admit that could take years. For the first time ever CHB is without the guidance of it's oracle which makes it vulnerable.

2: when and how will Leo Valdez return? The way the last line of the book is phrased implies to me that Leo didn't return to camp half-blood once he rescued Calypso instead he went somewhere else but I don't know where.

3:  what about the spirits from the doors of death? We don't even get a throwaway line saying that they were all rounded up and returned to the underworld, so I can only assume their still on the loose after the Giants were defeated.

Please tell me if you noticed any more loose ends in the BoO, also tell me how you'd like these loose ends to be tied up. 