User blog comment:Hermione Chase/"The Blood of Olympus" Expectations/@comment-5927468-20131028025216/@comment-1411267-20131028073610

Its true... this is one of the reasons we despise Piper so much (other than the fact she is horribly underdeveloped and shoved down our throats) she is useless. Sure she has charmspeak... but I mean come on... thats created more plotholes than I can think about. Pretty much what Piper will end up being is... *drumroll* A cop-out! Thats right, when someone dies in the next book, or ought to die. She will remove any emotional punch by asking Thanatos to spare (insert dead character we loved here). That or she will sweet talk the giants and Gaea into going back to Tartarus. Its going to be moronic... and I am NOT looking forward to it.

Now if Piper had some actual personality, especially a manipulative puppetmaster kind of personality. Then THAT would be awesome. Seeing her use that sweet power in fairly questionable ways... AWESOME. Sadly for Piper, her time is done. RR has had.. 3 books, to try and get her right. He failed in his first two tries (TLH and MOA) and with his third chance he did what he will do in BoO. She will get one appearence as a POV character. And will basically cameo through the rest of the book. Which is fine by me