User blog comment:Hermione Chase/"The Blood of Olympus" Expectations/@comment-9703010-20140717001552/@comment-3146930-20140720190921

For me, it just doesn't feel like Piper stands on her own that well. Most of her chapters focus on her having doubts about her relationship with Jason or her using charmspeak to try and defeat the bad guy (with very mixed results depending on the book). Obviously no character is perfect, as I don't see Percy's new found ability to control poison coming up again unless he fights Polybotes.

As far as Piper goes, it feels like because she is a child of Aphrodite all she can do is have love as the focus of her character. Then it feels like Rick Riordan wanted to make her better to appeal to fans, but ended up making her worse by just giving her things to do (once again with mixed results). I mean her fight with Khione was almost all she did in the HoH and most people argue about how cheesy the entire fight felt based on what we know about Piper's powers. Then after the fight we are given a kind of hand-wave excuse about how it worked.