Board Thread:The Heroes of Olympus/@comment-29729973-20170816065540/@comment-29729973-20170912141218

Oceanhalo12 wrote: Ea225225 wrote:

VidiaPhoenix wrote:

Ea225225 wrote:

VidiaPhoenix wrote:

Ea225225 wrote: Alright so we talked about Son, HoH, MoA, and LT. So now we are about to talk about the final book. . . BoO, let the HATE begin!! I didn't actually hate it. It had some good parts. It was more... underwhelming. The only part I hate is the Leo ending but we have all beaten that topic to death so let's not bother bringing it up again. I actually liked the ending. . . I'm surprised. Most I talk to hate that ending. I disliked it because Leo lied about the cure (giving a fake one to his friends) then prioritized his GF for a few weeks over his best friends mourning his death.

Not just that, it renders the threat of Gaea moot. Countless demigods died in the fight against Kronos, showing that it was a hard win made with a lot of sacrifices. No protagonist died fighting Gaea except Leo. Then he revives. So, there was not really any threat. Everyone survived and, if they didn't, they simply revived. No sacrifice was needed on the heroes part to defeat Gaea. This is why people say Kronos was a more dangerous/compelling villain even though, logically, he is weaker than Gaea. Leo did it because he knows Percy, Piper, Jason, or Annabeth would never let him do it, so he told it to Frank and Hazel. Also, 'prioritized' isn't fair. we know demigod communications were already going down at that point, the god of prophecy was MiA and Leo was on Ogygia, a land where time and space 'laws' don't function in the same way, and he had to fight his way to camp with their demigod and turned-down nymph auras drew monsters around each corner. It not like he went cruising with Calypso for a month or something.

However BoO is still a very underwhelming end to such a good series and I put it just above The Lost Hero. Exactly. Leo still had some faults, and he was a little annoying I suppose, but people were really over exaggerating his faults, he still deeply cares about his friends, he even hugged Percy.