User blog comment:SayuriDarling/The House of Hades Official Discussion/@comment-4503464-20131107130909/@comment-24062146-20131107153416

Your review seems pretty on par with the rest. Though, Percabeth needed to be a united front to survive, which is why it seemed sappy. Of course she's going to be all gushing over Percy, he literally jumped into hell for her. That had to score him major boyfriend points. (The 11 year old in my house did comment about how they used to always fight, and now they are all sweet.  That's because they finally admitted their feelings and got passed the tension.  Plus, they have only been reunited for a couple of weeks after a long separation.)

I liked that the Nico reveal came out of nowhere. Sometimes things like that do. You can't always tell just by looking or speaking to someone that they are gay. Just last week I saw a girl I know strolling outside the school holding hands with another girl. Never new that about her before, no foreshadowing, hints, nothing....and she is obviously open about it. Jason was surprised, as we were meant to be. In my opinion one of the worst things about the first series was some of the foreshadowing was so strong I wasn't surprised by much. Percy's father, no surprise. Luke was the enemy, I knew that before Percy left on his quest. Heck, I even called it the Leo Calypso thing. RR finally stunned me. Good for him!