User blog comment:SayuriDarling/The Mark of Athena Official Discussion/@comment-5593616-20121007191313/@comment-1774984-20121008020039

C'mon, there's characters with bigger sob-stories than Piper! She expects us to cry over her movie star dad? Hell, no. I'm crying with Leo over how he was forced to kill his own mother and Jason over how he was neglected by his own mother. I'm crying with Hazel how she freaking sacrificed her life at age 13 to stop a giant from rising and Frank about his mother's death. I'm crying with Annabeth over being attacked by spiders in her bed at about eight years old. I'm crying with Percy over being completely cleansed from his memory, seperated from his mother and step-father and only having memory of Annabeth. Rick expects me to cry over Piper? Nope. The other characters make me feel sorry for them, so easily. Piper, the way she's written just makes me want to hate her. Nothing more.