User blog comment:SayuriDarling/The Blood of Olympus Official Discussion/@comment-26387135-20150516173608

This may sound weird but i think BoO failed partly because of TLO's great success.The Last Olympian was fantastically done since the entire book felt fast-paced and exciting. It felt more real and more "awake". The reason The Last Olympian worked is because they started the last battle midway through the book. 50% of the novel was entirely devoted to the final fight and the epilogue.

'Long story short,TLO was the perfect ending to PJO. Every1 expected BOO to be like that,so when it wasn't even 1 bit as awesome as TLO..extreme disappointment.'