Board Thread:The Heroes of Olympus/@comment-29729973-20170816065540/@comment-5896827-20170830014641

Light of day 10,000 wrote: VidiaPhoenix wrote: 1. Mark of Athena

2. Son of Neptune

3. Blood of Olympus

4/5. House of Hades/The Lost Hero I'm curious why you don't like The House of Hades... House of Hades was so boring to me. The way Annabeth and Percy survived Tartarus was PIS at best. You mean to tell me, Nyx, a primordial as ancient and powerful as Gaia, can fooled with a trick so obvious it can be seen on Saturday morning cartoons?

They also went with the weird route that Percy is an "awful, inconsiderate guy". He is vilified because he didn't check up on Bob? That titan tried to murder him and his friends! Besides, he can't just pop up in the underworld like Nico anyways. They also give him flack for not checking up on Calypso to make sure the gods kept their promise. It's not his job. In fact, he traded immortality for her freedom among other things (recognition of minor gods, all kids claimed). He had no reason to believe the gods weren't keeping their word because they did keep their word about everything else (from his knowledge).

I feel like people only like this book because Nico came out but even that was problematic. Eros beat Nico, tried to drop a pillar on his friend (Jason), and verbally manipulated him over the course of a battle. It was antagonistic and sickening. Who would do that to a child? It wasn't Nico sitting down with a person he trusted and coming out, it was him being essentially tortured into confession (beaten and psycologically manipulated until he came out). No wonder he was suicidal directly afterwords.

The book also dragged. Not only that, it was easily predictable. I knew Bob was going to sacrifice himself to close the gate because he's much more expendable than Percy or Annabeth. This among other predictable things.

I didn't like how they glorified Diocletian because he was the last "pagan" leader as if religion makes a good leader. Honestly, this alone wouldn't have been problematic except this man is also known for commiting genocide against the Christians. He literally murdered tens of thousands of Christians for not being pagan. So, by praising him for being pagan is like praising Tideki Tojo for his Japanese Nationalism (a man who committed countless war crimes in a sense of nationalism) or Hitler for being a proud Aryan.

Also, this is more of a nitpick, I can't stand that Annabeth lost her knife and Daedelus computer. One is her most precious item she owns (all she has left of a dead friend that she has own since she was twelve) and the other literally holds a man's entire life's work, thousands of years of life work. Then it was discarded like nothing. That made me sadder than losing Bob and the Peace Giant (and that was real sad).

Well, that's some of the reasons.