User blog comment:Darkcloud1111/Piper isn't that bad/@comment-4132675-20110925190155

I think she's ok, but I definitely miss Annabeth being the lead female. To me, she was much more impressive, and she had a better sense of humor. Then again, the reason most fans probably don't like her much (myself included) is that maybe it feels like he's trying to "replace" Percy, Annabeth, and Grover with Jason, Piper, and Leo. He isn't really trying, but when I first read The Lost Hero, I was thinking: I hope Percy's in this. If he isn't, I won't like it. Then when I finished the book, I was happy Percy is still very important, but he's now on the sidelines. He probably won't be the hero in the end of this series. I felt like everything Jason did wasn't that impressive, and I know why: we didn't see him develop as a hero or character. It was kind of like: "Oops. He's here. Look at how awesome he is. He did this, he did that." We didn't watch him progress. It made him seem a little arrogant, even if he didn't know what he was doing because of the memory thing.