Board Thread:The Heroes of Olympus/@comment-29729973-20170108025358/@comment-31481772-20170912162546

^Good points.

I too feel that SoN was Percy's best book in HoO. Throughout the book, I only saw the legendary Percy Jackson, who could be counted on to save the day. About "wringing Nico's neck", I don't think he literally meant it.

In HoH, I feel Percy would have shown much more remorse if Annabeth wouldn't have been with him. She didn't want him to talk too much to Bob. And well, she was being pragmatic. What if Bob gained all his memories because Percy let slip something? What if he turned evil again? What if Bob decided to attack the two severely weakened demigods in Tartarus?

And yes, in BoO, Percy was reduced to background character. I really wanted him to partially overcome his personal loyalty weakness himself, instead of being told to stay away from the main action (i.e., Gaea).