So far, I believe this is my least favorite book in the series. I found Larissa's various causes over the top... if we took her humanitarian and animal causes away, she was a bland character. I expected so much more from Sam.. he was more interesting and entertaining in the last two stories than he was in his own book... He showed a mean and highly selfish side that didn't seem temporary to me. The fact that it took him a month to go to Percy to apologize, didn't sit right with me. What he did to Percy was much worse than what he did to others in my opinion.