Luke

  Recently I have been thinking a lot about Luke.  Before I get into my rant,  I want to ask a question.  How may of you fans hate Luke?  You are probably thinking, "Oh my gods!  She is going to say that she LOVES Luke.  She loves everyone in the books!"  Well...yes and no regarding Luke .  I don't LOVE Luke, but I don't have anything against him.  I don't really have anyone in the books (besides monsters and such) that I really hate.  Now back to Luke... 

  I will admit that pre (and, for a while, post) book five, I did have problems with Luke.  In fact,  I pretty much hated him.  But after a while,  I started to realize that all the things that Luke did that made me hate him, he in a way made up for them in the battle. I can't really explain how. He just did.

  Another thing I have realized, is that you can tell at first Luke is all for the destruction of the gods because they mistreated him and other blah blah blah...  But, as time goes on, you start realizing  that Luke isn't 100% sure any more if he is on the "right side".  By the time that he was going to "become" Cronus, he seemed to know, for the most part, that he was on the wrong side; I don't think he really knew 1000,000,000% that he was on the "bad guy side" until the end. 

 Now that being said, I think he did know he was on the on the wrong side, but he didn't know how to get out of it, so his only option was to go along with the plan and hope that any opportunity appeared that would let him set everything straight.

  The only thing Luke did that I can NEVER forgive him for is going back on his promise to Thalia and Annabeth.  You might think that that is more forgivable than everything else; but to me, if it was just Thalia, who was 12 years-old at the time, it would be easier to forgive.  It is the fact that he broke the promise to little 7 year-old Annabeth who looked up to Luke that hurts.

Well, that's all for now.  Please comment below!

Shelby
Daughter of Athena