User blog comment:Hyperborean/What to expect/@comment-4515675-20120514060830/@comment-3146930-20120514204247

For the Character chapters, I believe that the POV's are given to the people that are required to tell the story. Yes the first 6 of the Prophecy of Seven had their own POV's, but that is because they were all on a quest together at the time and had their own back-story to tell. Now that we know everyone's back-story (with flashbacks or others talking about them), we are all caught up and pretty much anyone can have a POV as long as their narrative is important for whatever quest they will be going on.

As far as how short or long the chapter is, I have the audiobooks so I don't have page numbers. However, there are some chapters that are about 5 minutes long or shorter, while others are over 30. While the first chapter is short, the next chapter could be freakishly long. Also as far as it being in Annabeth's POV, every book so far has had the first narrator give the first set of chapters and the last set of chapters, meaning that if the book has another cliff hanger (which it will most likely have because RR is evil [but not really]), it will be something important that only Annabeth will be able to tell or will be more dramatic from her POV.

Lastly, yes Annabeth said that Jason was Piper's BF, but the reason they wanted to wait was because at the time Jason didn't have his full memory back. But he did get it back over time, so in eight months he could have gotten his memory about Reyna back and since the two were never dating, Piper and Jason were free to date. And not just four demigods were on the Argo II, they had Gleeson Hedge, the one goat army...but seriously. The main goal is to unite the camps, but these are two groups that seem to hate each other at the core, even if they have never met. They need to do this slowly by sending a small party to open up negotiations. A large war ship filled with Greek warriors under a flag of peace tends to remind me a bit of the Trojan Horse, something Octavian warns about when they approach: "beware Greeks bearing gifts."