Hi!! So this IS the spoilery section. The non-spoilery is on another post.
OK, so please, no hate. I understand that you might have different opinions and I respect that, just… no hate.
OK, so when I finished the book, I was disappointed. Like in HoH. But most books that disappoint me at first reading are finally really good when I reread them (Fire, TID, HoH, etc.). I thought it ended too fast, Percy wasn’t there, it looked like there was lots more but it was cut short and that’s it, that the Nico-Percy at the end was too brief, and stuff.
Then I waited for tumblr to react. So I learned to love it. And my opinion stabilized itself. And because we are in a society of negative-ness, i’m sorry if most of my points are negative. I’ll try to stay on focus. This is going to be long, I’m sorry.
- Ok, first, context: I’m a francophone so I read PJO, Lost Hero and Son of Neptune in French. Then I started to read in English and I reread them in English because my dad had bought me MoA in English (to make me practice). God it’s so good in the original language!!! Anyway, so I don’t really remember what I thought at the beginning of each book, but what I remember is that: at the beginning of MoA, I thought everything was so perfect (I think everyone loved that book, and I think that too) and it was epic since the beginning. And then HoH was like “ah”. I mean, it was not that bad of a start but still. And then BoO (god I was so excited for that book, I couldn’t sleep, because I thought HoH was like a character development and everything placed for BoO…) arrived and… ok, I don’t hate Jason, don’t think I do, but I have to admit he’s not the epic guy you want to open a book with. Anyway. I thought the beginning wasn’t… that good, you know. I mean, you open the book and it starts with them like “ehhh, let’s climb a mountain”… I dunno what you thought about that part but whatever
- Then I guess I need to talk about pov. Everyone’s either like: “PERCY AND ANNABETH!!! WHAAAAT!!!!” and “FRANK! HAZEL!! WHERE ARE YOUUUUU!!!” and the rest of the fandom is like “Wooo, calm down. Nico and Reyna, that was perfect!” and saying that it’s character development. Now, I still don’t know what to think. I would have like to see all the Seven, sure, and I understand, too, that it was good to finish with whom we started. I think it was good. It wasn’t perfect. But we couldn’t really put everyone either. I mean, we can’t put everyone’s POV, it’s going to be too heavy, so we need to make choices. So, yes, I’m disappointed, but I understand. It’s good, also, to compare debut-of-the-series Leo/Piper/Jason with end-of-the-series Leo/Piper/Jason.
- And then I get to the place everyone got. I guess it goes a bit with POV, but… there also, it think it was a lot of “Ok, let’s make everyone love every character” and stuff. I was disappointed to not see that much of Percy and Annabeth, and they felt, for me, like mentors giving the younger ones the tasks. I mean… naaaah.
- Should I talk about the fact that nobody dies? Ok, I’m going to refer to the three other end of series that came out “recently” and others that will come out in “not too long”, so it might spoil a bit. You can get to the other point, then. I’m just going to say that I felt like it was too easy. Ok, now you can jump to the next paragraph. So I feel like you have Allegiant on one side (Tris died. Everybody dies.), with Mockingjay (lots of deaths too.) and on the other side City of Heavenly Fire (NOBODY FUCKING DIED) and Blood of Olympus (*LOOKS AROUND* WHERE’S THE BODIES!!!). Ok I don’t want to look sadistic, but god! IN BOTH STORIES THEY WERE SAVING THE FUCKING WORLD FROM EITHER A SADISTIC GUY OR A SADISTIC WOMAN (sort of… ok, the earth). I’ve read Cassie talk about the fact that in dystopian books, the point is showing that people die in trying to save whatever and blablabla. I don’t say I want people to die, but… I mean… a bit. I mean, pre-COHF was litterily: EVERYBODY DIES ARE YOU READY and then during-COHF: omg I’m gonna die aww and then post-COHF: WHAT WHERE WERE THE BODIES. I think it’s a bit the same with BoO. I’m sorry, this paragraph is going to be really long. I mean, they are SAVING THE WORLD. Where’s the long battle that’ll take the whole book? Where’s the big plot twist that’ll make everyone go: OHHHHHH ????? No where. I know, I’m not saying I could’ve done better, and endings are difficult… but nobody liked those endings. For Allegiant and Mockingjay. I don’t know for COHF and BOO yet, but I didn’t liked them that much. No, I’m taking back that. I liked them. But I didn’t LOVE them. I LOVED CP2. It was perfect. But COHF? No.
- Leo and Calypso. I thought it was predictable. That’s all I have to say. I’m not saying anything about the fact that he didn’t contact the crew that thought he was dead. You’ll see that everywhere on tumblr. I just… hated that it finished like that. Where was the big “This is the end” ? And the satisfying thing? Gaaaah, I hated that. And come on, NOBODY ever thought a second he would die.
- Nico and Will. I fell in love with it. The fanart is so good!! But now that I’m all in negative thoughts I won’t talk about it. Talk to me later when I’m in good mood :P
- The story in general. I think it felt like cut scenes. There were things that were said and you felt like having missed a part. There were pats, though, that I loved. The temple of fear was my favorite scene, I think. And the Nike one was funny too. And there were lines that I actually laughed to. But it wasn’t THAT funny or you know. Reyna and Nico and Coach Hedge… I liked it. But it wasn’t THAAAAAT good, I thought. I liked the Hades/Nico time, and I was like “GAAAAH BADASS” with Nico and the guy that tried to come and kill Reyna (too lazy to go check this name in the book). The hunter/Amazon time… I loved it. Feels!!!!
I think I’ve said everything.
So in general… I’d give it 85%. Because I would’ve wanted so much more. Because it didn’t seem like an end to a technically ten-book-series. But also because it was Rick Riordan. And we had our characters and it was still special.
If I haven’t, feel free to reblog and say stuff. Or ask me stuff. That’s always cool.
I’m sorry for the long post :)
Kikyra
(Sorry, ending quickly, have to go!!!)
