User blog comment:SayuriDarling/The Blood of Olympus Official Discussion/@comment-4503464-20150423130321/@comment-24067344-20150423180546

M.J., you’ve got to understand that this is the Heroes of Olympus series. In this series we get Points of view from other people. In the Percy Jackson series, we only got to see what Percy thinks. And what he thinks about his friends and family. But, since this was only in Percy’s Pov, We’ve never got a chance to see what Annabeth thought of Percy in the past. We never got see why Rachel liked Percy so much. We’ve never got the chance to see if Nico was really in love with Percy all these years. There are so many thing that we couldn’t see in The Percy Jackson series. The point is, since this series isn’t about Percy completely, we now see what other people think about him. For example, Annabeth in the HoO series mentions many times that Percy is handsome and all cause we finally see what Annabeth thinks about Percy. But in the PJ series, we didn’t know what she thought about Percy cause it was only in Percy’s Pov.

Also, Percy isn’t exactly “ too perfect “ in this series. In The House of Hades, Percy shows a more emotional side of him. He’s helpless, tired, scared, and terrified. He admits that he wasn’t a very good friend to Bob, Calypso and Nico. The House of Hades is probably the book where Percy is most human in the entire Camp Half Blood Chronicles ( PJ and HoO). He tells the truth to Bob that he pretended to be his friend and that he erased his memory. He tries to become Nico’s friend but it backfires. He told the gods to promise to release Calypso but she was still in her island. Percy isn’t perfect. The House of Hades, shows that Percy is human. People will say he is “ too perfect” cause he doesn’t really show his flaws to his friends (not including his fatal flaw) That’s probably the reason why people though Percy was too perfect.