User blog comment:Darkcloud1111/''The Mark of Athena'' Plot Holes/@comment-24.176.109.85-20121018123548/@comment-24.176.109.85-20121019073612

I would just like to clear things up here. The first two paragraphs in my previous comment were, essentially, sarcastic. It was an attempt at humor on my part by suggesting that an author would intentionally make plot holes in order to "stay true" to his/her sources. I thought that this was made clear by my ending line, "opinions (sarcastic and otherwise)," but it seems it was not, and I apologize for any confusion.

My actual opinions are more in line with the rest of the comment.

Although, one has to admit that the ancient myths are often contradictory, without any sort of timeline, and, frankly, confusing at times. So it is amusing to me to see that a book that relies so heavily upon these myths suffers from some of the same things.

So, whenever I read through Riordan's series', and see a plot hole or an inconsistency, I like to think that it just another way in which these books are similar to the ancient myths. However, I will state again that I don't really believe that Riordan, or any author for that matter, would intentionally make plot holes in his/her stories, and i apologize for the confusion.