Board Thread:The Heroes of Olympus/@comment-31393646-20170603124449/@comment-26455689-20170704181302

Yes Chrysbliss! I know and it would be too much like a remake of Percy Jackson which would most likely feel like a Star Wars Prequel or The Hobbit Movies in terms of just completely unfulfilling. Plus Jason being Roman would mean he would be more focused on duty, honour and the such like and wouldn't loosen up like he did at Camp Half-Blood. It would just leave people missing the comedy of Percy. Plus Reyna's Mum is only a war god unlike Athena so she wouldn't be nearly as interesting as Annabeth and suffer from the same being Roman Problem. Imagine have a romanised cross between Annabeth, Clarisse and Circe with a more traumatised version of the old Reyna on top. Doesn't sound like the sort of characters which Rick Riordan is a master at.

So yes not great plus the old Percy Jackson trilogy didn't distinguish so well between Greek and Roman myths. Not to mention that most of the Roman myths were either remakes of old Greek myths or to heavily focused round Rome and keeping order unlike the fun stories of the Greeks

So no Jason Grace and the Gods of Rome really doesn't agree with me. My previous comment was just saying that Jason's past is too similar to Percy's to go in depth into which leaves reader feeling like they don't really know Jason and Reyna that well even at the end of HoO and we certainly feel the uncanny valley syndrome with Reyna and with Jason to a lesser extent because we haven't had an in depth look into how the characters grew into what they are now in terms we were told it but their stiff upper lip stops us from feeling as strong a connection which why some people may feel that they suck because on an emotional level they cannot compare to Percy and Annabeth. Or even to Leo, Hazel, Frank and Gleeson because we see them change radically and deeply and it feels heart felt because we see their transformation from normal people to demigod heroes ( In the case of Gleeson - Saytr Hero and Father)