I need some help. I want to know what people find compelling about Jason and Piper as characters. Is my third time reading this series and the more I read it the more I do not like them. I feel like I am biased and I already start the book with this preconcieved notion that I do not like them. I would like to see someone else's POV of why this characters made them enjoy the series. Specifically this book. As a last note I have also read trials of Apollo series.

I feel like at some point Rick Riordan forgot the original Percy Jackson series. Because Aphrodite's children, although concerned with fashion, are fighters, they know how to defend themselves. They play capture the flag with the rest of the camp. Especially when it involves Artemis's hunters. They were defending one of the entrances to Manhattan during the last war. I don't understand what the series gains from presenting all people from this cabin as shallow. As if they did not fight and survive a war. As if they did not have to bury their friends, including their sister, as the rest of camp. Seems to continue this trend of the book of presenting most of the female characters that portray characteristics normally assigned to woman as something bad. They are shallow and idiots and that makes them mean. Also liking fashion does not mean you like only designer stuff. People that like and understand fashion understand it as a form of art. Fashion can be used as an outlet to express ourselves and can be used to understand history. Flattening so much the meaning of fashion to what mean girls are worried about because the only thing they care about is their looks, yes they are that shallow, feels so wrong.

I love how sassy Annabeth is with Hera. Like she truly learned that from Percy. Everytime she heard him being sassy with any god at beginning she was always telling him to quit it. Look at her now being sassy too. They grow up so quickly.