Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1820614-20141107023406/@comment-4902593-20141128142108

Erick.baez.773 wrote: I mean Dont you think Percy was a weakling in BoO ? RR made Jason,Piper,Leo look so strong.And made Percy look like a weakling.(including Frank and Annabeth)Hazel at least did something important in that book.By summoming the mist,the 4 of them could capture Nike.If it werent for her....Well The river would have to be closer so Percy could drown her.Anyways Besides His personality and all,I want this book/story to be awesome.If you read the son of sobek,Pery was amazing in that story.I hope he can be like that again in this upcoming story. Looking back at the entire series, it was natural that Percy Jackson became a little weak in The Blood of Olympus. It would have been strange if he was still that strong.

If you notice, Percy had no respite at all. In The Son of Neptune, just after he had woken up with no memory, Percy had to train under Lupa or perish. Then right after his training had finished, Lupa had sent him to find Camp Jupiter on his own. Percy couldn't even rest as the Gorgon sisters were after him. Then, Percy had barely spent a day at Camp when he was immediately assigned a quest to Alaska, with two newbies.

After he returned from the quest and killed Polybotes, the very next day Percy was forced to flee on the new quest to the Ancient Lands. And just after he had finished fighting the Giants, he and Annabeth got chucked into freaking Tartarus. Even in the pit, he slept only once, when he was exhausted.

The only break he got was the last two weeks before the events of The Blood of Olympus. So from The Son of Neptune to The House of Hades, Percy was on a marathon. That's like redoing all the feats he did in the past four years in a matter of few weeks. Even in the last book, he did some really cool things like blowing up Nike's chariot, smashing toilets. He also fought Thoon and sent Porphyrion flying, without Riptide.

That is really awesome. But I don't know why were Frank and Hazel ignored. I can understand about Annabeth though, as she had just been to Tartarus.