User blog comment:SayuriDarling/The Mark of Athena Official Discussion/@comment-4649443-20121016204645/@comment-3305525-20121030015359

Percy 9.5/10 - Of course, my favorite character in the whole series. Sadly, he had to be put out of the spotlight a bit in MoA to make room for six other demigods. However, he seems much different than he did in the original series... more mature, naturally, but I thought his defining characteristic was his integrity, and how he never thought too highly of himself. But during this book he said that he had problems with "little things like letting Jason take watch for the night" or something like that. ...What?.... This goes completely against his character. A few more comments like this made me wonder about this as well.... still awesome, though.

Annabeth 9/10 - All the hype of the Mark of Athena being a suicide quest made me think, "OK, so, she's going to face dozens of deadly monsters and impossible traps and puzzles." Nope. Really, generations of children of Athena couldn't get past a horde of incompetent spirits? The quest was over before I even knew it, although I enjoyed her POV of it while it lasted.

Octavian 6/10 - Ranking him as a villain, which he does a good job of being. Honestly, why are people giving him low scores just for being a bad guy? He's an excellent schemer and everything a good villain should be. Although his personality is pretty pathetic.

Jason 7.5/10 - I liked him better in the Lost Hero... when he actually did stuff. The ONLY time he ever did anything useful in this book was when he was working with Percy. Come on... he's supposed to be the best the Roman camp has to offer!

Leo 10/10 - Excellent character. Really funny, delivers fantastic lines, and definitely more useful to the quest than certain other demigods, including Jason. He obviously has talents and a great personality, but is still an outsider... although he isn't bitter about it. Did I mention he's funny?

Frank 6/10 - Frank has been described as looking like a big baby. After reading this book, it is much easier to visualize that. What did he really do on this quest besides mope around, shoot Leo resentful looks, and jump whenever he saw a spark? It's disappointing, because I really liked him in the previous book. Hopefully he'll get a POV in the next book and not suck so much.

Piper 5/10 - Talk about useless. In fact, you know how one of her chapters is purely a story about her grandpa's story? Pretty sure that was just to get her POV out of the way so we could move on to something important. "Oh, no, I'm not sure if my boyfriend likes me. Surely it's more important to whine about this than tell him I saw a vision of him DROWNING until right before it happens!" Ugh, useless.

Hazel 7/10 - I think she would have been better if she'd been given more time. Maybe she would have spent it doing something useful, instead of acting ignorant to the Leo/Frank situation and making it worse.

Reyna 6/10 - Ehhh... Not enough stage time to judge for me. But... did anyone else think how it was weird how fast she tried to move on Percy? Then Jason comes back and she's all jealous that he's with someone else... but he did exactly what she tried to do. Oh well.

Hedge 8/10 - Heh heh heh.... I liked him. He was funny. You hvae to have comic relief, right? Plus, he was probably more useful than Piper.