User blog comment:Darkcloud1111/Camp Half-Blood Series General Discussion/@comment-5112532-20140531101808/@comment-3146930-20140531142102

It isn't that controversial, as I think a lot of people have similar ideas about the two series. I personally prefer the original series, but there are things about the new series that I prefer over the old one.

For me, I enjoy the characters a lot more in the new series (with two exceptions **cough**Jason and Piper**cough** ). A lot of the background characters are given more detail and we actually learn about them. The big flaw with the original series was that we would learn about someone, then they would be killed and never reappear in the next book or the basically disappeared once Percy left on a quest. With this series, we get 7 main characters and you always know that the other important people are doing something else (Reyna is a good example of this).

However on the other hand, I think the first series has better stories. Kronos was always pulling the strings and even when the heroes thought they won, it turns out Kronos had already planned for that to happen. The Heroes of Olympus on the other hand keeps bringing in plot points that feel like they aren't going anywhere. For example, they have been talking about capturing two sacrifices (a boy and a girl) for about three books now, but it doesn't really seem to be going anywhere. The Athena Parthenon as well has been the subject of two books, but we still don't really know what it does. The war between CJ and CHB is always mentioned, but they are mostly just setting it up. Not to mention with all the Gigantes back, it just feels like we backtracked again. The original series always made me feel like the stories were always moving forward, instead of just sort of going around in circles.

The leads me to serious questions about how much will actually be in this book, as the other four have built up so many plot lines that I wonder how many will have a satisfying conclusion.