User blog comment:Hyperborean/"The House of Hades" – official expectations blog/@comment-5073970-20130910163208/@comment-1411267-20130912115340

@Darkwinter...you don't seem to understand why very few like her. Its because very few people can relate to her. I mean sure she has been ignored by her dad (the only evidence of this is that Piper SAYS her dad ignores her, however, her flasbacks say almost the opposite) but its never REALLy expanded on (in a way that makes sense) the only flashbacks of Piper we get are ones where her dad paid attention to her. She would be relatable if we got flashbacks of her, without her dad, feeling all abandoned and lost, with no parents to guide her. We have never gotten any of that.

And RR TRIES so very hard to make it seem like Piper has alot of emotional baggage.. however he never gives us a chance to connect with Piper, so we can care about her. Thus it all comes off as useless.