User blog comment:Darkcloud1111/Piper isn't that bad/@comment-71.205.210.226-20110927151753

I don't hate Piper, but I definitely do not like her. There is a fine line between being modest and changing who you are. She was changing her appearance thinking that if she did that no one will notice her then. She really should have just embraced herself and not changed. Then she would go on about how hard she tried to make sure people didn't notice her. It made her seem really weak with how she cared so much about what other people saw her as. It wasn't the usual that most people care about what other people see if others think they are pretty or not, it was that she cared if people were paying attention to her or not. It is hard to explain. She did care about her looks, but not in the obvious Aphrodite way. That was my major deal with her. She didn't embrace herself, she just covered it up.

Then there was also Riordan's style of every time Jason described Piper (or vice versa) they exclaimed how beautiful she was. "She sliced the monsters and still managed to look beautiful." Okay, I get it. She's a daughter of Aphrodite so that means no matter what she does she is beautiful. Percy never complimented Annabeth until the Last Olympian. "Annabeth had always been cute, but now she was getting seriously beautiful." I'm pretty sure that's what he said. Percy and Annabeth were really raw characters. They had flaws and the good parts of them weren't shouted out with the writing style. To prove Percy was funny Rick would have a funny joke. To prove Annabeth was smart he would put in a cunning plan made by her. To prove that Piper was pretty he would say "Piper is pretty." To prove that Jason is good at fighting he beats Lit.

Piper also was too emotional. That could just be me because I am not emotional at all. I do not show emotions because they make me feel weak and crap. So when Piper cries every other chapter, it got on my nerves. She says that she is strong, but then she cries into Jason's shoulder. It was like her personality was all screwed up. She was this and then she was this. She was fake. She wasn't real. It just wasn't personal at all.

People could also feel this way because this is the first book. We love Percy and Annabeth because we watched them grow up. We watched their relationship grow together even though they were really awkward together at first. They were raw characters with a crap ton of problems, and that's why we liked them. I am excited to meet Reyna because in my mindset she should be the Roman Annabeth. She looks really angry (Like Annabeth should look after Percy left) and she just looks promising. I have never been more excited for a character besides Jason (i'm a sucker for the children of Zeus/Jupiter)