User blog comment:Hermione Chase/"The Blood of Olympus" Expectations/@comment-1867880-20131012082634

I think, or at least I hope, that Leo and Reyna will end up together. That relationship makes a lot of sense. One thing I did like about The House of Hades was that after reading it, I actually liked Piper. She had a purpose and was no longer the most useless of the Seven. She learned how to use her charmspeak and now she can sword fight. I liked that. I also like Frank. He always struck me as a dumbass -- no longer. I now consider Hazel and Frank to be among my favorite characters -- right under Luke, Percy, Annabeth, Jason, Leo, Thalia, and Nico (in that order). I'm not going to talk much more about The Blood of Olympus. If I try to figure out what will happen, then I won't be surprised when it does. One thing I must say, though, is that I felt that Porphyrion has had a strange absence for the king of the Gigantes. I'd have thought he'd have returned by now. Though I do figure that Zeus/Jupiter, Poseidon/Neptune, and Thalia Grace will return. Thalia played an important role in The Lost Hero, and I'm disappointed that she hasn't appeared since. I did like that The House of Hades merged the Heroes of Olympus series with Percy Jackson & the Olympians series so well, with the return of several Titans and monsters they had faced previously, and tying Iapetus back into the series. Along with Festus, Iapetus was a character that I thought was going to be left to a short story, not the books. I liked that.