User blog comment:Hermione Chase/"The Blood of Olympus" Expectations/@comment-9703010-20140717001552/@comment-4531192-20140721151620

@Jazznovellista From what I can see, most people are not saying that Piper is a character with no faults. On the contrary, they tend to think that she is a selfish, obsessed, and often irrational person.

I realize that this has been said countless times already, but Piper seems to only care about her relationship with Jason. It's particularly evident in the third book, actually. I've used this passage as an example before, but here you go: Piper wondered if he’d [Jason] ''made a wish—hopefully that he and Piper would survive this quest and stay together forever. She decided not to ask him. She didn't want to jinx that wish, and she definitely didn't want to find out that he’d wished for something different.'' When I first read that I almost decided to stop reading the book.

Also, Piper is really, really obsessed with Jason in the first two books she appears in. She looks down on anyone who isn't him, and the only time she sees flaws in him is when he doesn't act the way she wants him to. The rest of the time Jason is his knight in shining armor and is basically perfect (minus the scar on the corner of his lip). She's constantly jealous of Jason's old life, which is also extremely irritating.

People just can't relate to a character like Piper. She's someone you'd never want to have around in a critical situation that requires sacrifices from everyone involved. She never is held responsible for anything. She only cares about Jason and practically idolizes him.

The bottom line is that Piper is practically useless (unless when Rick decides to use some corny deus ex machina). On a side note, yes, I realize that she wasn't all that bad in The House of Hades.