Board Thread:The Heroes of Olympus/@comment-29729973-20170816065540/@comment-5896827-20170830021756

Well, I just didn't find Jason and Piper compelling people. Jason was a Percy 2.0 with no endearing qualities (in that book, anyways) and Piper was hard to sympathize with because she whines about her father being a rich movie star. Um, sorry? Also, I hate her character arc with Drew.

Drew, like Octavian, is a one-dimensional villain that is there as conflict and nothing more. She acts like she came straight out of the Mean Girls movie and even they had more going for them. Also, this brings up a lot of plotholes. Why on Earth was such a caustic person allowed to lead the cabin? Annabeth or Chiron would've stepped in, regardless of charmspeak, for the way she bullied all her siblings with her disgusting abuse of power. Or at the very least Chiron would've made her behave better. She exists as a stepping stone in a very shallow "Piper overcomes snobby girl" and I hate that. She is literally there as Piper's stepping stone.

Drew literally has all the unpopular opinions and qualities just to make her obnoxious. They aren't really explained. Like why Drew is the ONLY person at Camp Half-Blood who hates Silena. Also, that break a heart rule? How dumb. I thought this book was supposed to teach us that Aphrodite girls weren't stereotypical but they were. They couldn't have been more stereotypical.

Love is a beautiful thing and they could have been so much better. They could be sympathetic to people's plights as they are great empathizers. They could encourage the LGBT community and help them out. They could be peace resolvers as they would rather have the world love each other, not fight. They could compliment people a lot, always wanting people to know what makes them beautiful as they have an appreciation for beauty. Love is sacred to them.

But no. We got Drew. Drew and Piper "I'm not like them because who would want to be, I'm not a typical Aphrodite kid, look I am so tomboy, look I am wearing Hello Kitty shirt and I constantly talk about boys, this is ironic" McLean.