User blog comment:SayuriDarling/The House of Hades Official Discussion/@comment-24308873-20131014175259/@comment-4531192-20131015092230

Defending Rick Riordan just because he is Rick Riordan is stupid. I agree with FoolishJester in that Nico's confession came out of nowhere, and wasn't really needed in a children's book. Of course it doesn't matter to people on this site as most of you are over thirteen. However, a ten-year-old probably doesn't even know what someone's "sexuality" is. And saying that someone hates gays because he doesn't like Nico's character development (or the lack of thereof) is equally as stupid as someone stopping reading the books because of a gay character.