User blog comment:SayuriDarling/The Blood of Olympus Official Discussion/@comment-4749365-20141008173952/@comment-4749365-20141008234611

I thought Leo was popular. Eh, I only cared about Hedge, Nico, and Reyna's quest, as it became obvious there was only going to be one massive showdown when the giants didn't appear until around page 200 in a 500 page book. The physician's cure was obiously a filler quest until Reyna could deliver the Athena Parthenos.