User blog comment:Hermione Chase/"The Blood of Olympus" Expectations/@comment-4485028-20131029213732

Finally finished the book yesterday after UPS decided it'd be fun to mess with me. I have to say it was better than MoA, but I still find SoN to be my favorite of the series. That being said let's get on to my complaints, because the internet demands that I only point out the flaws in everything.

Calypso. Calypso was essentially ruined. She seems more like an annoying teenage girl than the mystical girl that was Percy's biggest what if. To put it in other terms, her development caused her to be this series' Victoria from HIMYM. Introduced as the perfect girl, but turned into someone that  becomes (at least to the fandom) less than desirable. She was so amazing, so mysterious, then suddenly becomes a brat in two years even though she's been on the island for almost 3000 years.

Nico. Nico, Nico, Nico. There were no previous hints in other books, no foreshadowing, no nothing. It just happened out of the blue. I really want to rant about this a lot, but I feel like someone's going to misinterpret and call me homophobic or something like that. All I'll say is that the delivery could have been a lot better.

That was mostly it actually. I'll also say that Hazel irritated me a little bit, and Nox was way too gullible for someone who is one of the two most powerful entities of all time. Gaea isn't that stupid. Tartarus isn't that stupid. Why did Nox have to be stupid?

Something I really enjoyed that, for once, Percy's actions weren't seen as pure and good and all. The part where Annabeth received the curse from Calypso because Percy didn't completely follow up on his promise? Genius. The morality of erasing Iaptus' memory and then abandoning him at Hades' palace? Very well done. Percy is no longer as much of a hero as he was once thought to be.