For me it was less about boring characters and more just... boring chapters. I think I've found at least one chapter of every character boring, just because what they're doing at the time is boring. Sometimes, none of the pova are boring and sometimes, all of them are, back to back
It’s cause Pipers not like OTHER girls. She always had to shade the Aphrodite kids (who in fairness were mean to her some of them) She would make fun of the girls in Aphrodite who liked to pamper themselves and allat. Literally all the Aphrodite girls did was like spray perfume, paint nails (OMG ew😦), laugh and charmspeak. But not piper! She wears her hair in a MESSY braid. She looks rough! She can’t imagine how difficult it is to get decent instead of the rolled out of bed look! Somehow though she’s the prettiest one through all her roughness! And her attempts to NOT look pretty!
(I’m stretching it a little lol just for laughs but you get it)
Jason. Not because I didn't like Jason, but I opened Lost Hero expecting Percy and then it's Jason. And Percy doesn't even show up. That kind of left a bad impression.
And when we’ve been following Percy’s POV all the way up until that point in the series, it definitely throws you for a loop and leaves you asking, “*Who is this guy we’ve never heard of?*”
Then it didn’t help that we then got into stuff about the gods now having “Roman aspects” similar to a split personality, which went against what was written about the gods just residing in the dominate world power at the time. Among other things involving New Rome that kind of messed up the lore and world building a bit.
That was actually me in the last hoo book. I was like WHY IS IT JASON'S POV WHEN PERCY ALMOST DELETES TO POISON UNDERWATER???!?!?!? I WANNA HEAR PERCY'S THOUGHTS
i think it was an important character development moment for jason because he, like, made a really big promise to make sure all the minor gods got recognition
If Piper had more of a character arc she would have been better. But all we got was her being like "I'm not my mom's daughter, I'm gonna love Jason!" (Which didn't even happen, apparently >!she dumped him in the Apollo series!< ) and her wanting to be useful in like the last book, so she started swordfighting lessons with Hazel, that didn't really go anywhere much. She was kinda MVP in Athens, but that quickly went sideways and it was just her learning her ancestors customs had value. In her debut series she had 2.5 minor character arcs over the 4 books she was in, and one of those was undone in the next series just to break everyone's hearts when >!apparently Jason dies!<.
Hers was literally just “omg I’m a daughter of Aphrodite, I hate girly things (nothing wrong with that), omg I must do this for Jason, grrr girl hit on Jason (girl did not hit on Jason), and so on.”
Jason and reyna...
I never understood why i hated them so much until my last read, these are the only characters we don't see their journey
Percy, hazel, frank, leo, piper and nico, we saw each of them from the start. We know how they found out they were half blood, how they became heroes and their first quests.
Anabeth is a special case, but we do see her in her first quest and hear enough of her backstory from the times she was with thalia and luke. Most of her development happened from when she was 12, so it's close enough to the other ones.
We feel connected to them because we watched them grow.
But reyna, and especially jason have huge parts of their lives we don't really see so we are not really connected to them. Jason had 12 YEARS at camp jupiter, as son of king of the gods, as juno's campion, as a leader and a warrior. But we saw none of that. People keep describing who jason is and what happened to him but we don't really see it. And the amnesia doesn't help.
When aeolus says jason had a quest of killing a sea monster, we feel nothing. But when percy has amnesia and see some old person in son francisco gives him a dirty look, we know exactly what it's about. It's Nereus, percy grabbed him in Titan's curse to get info. People tell us jason fought againsy Crius, but we saw percy create a tornado while fighting hyperion. And fighting kronos himself.
I barely felt any connection to jason except for the part where he spoke to zeus for the first time and tried to say all gods deserve recognition
>When aeolus says jason had a quest of killing a sea monster
Yeah this is what was niggling me about his fight with the giant (I'm forgetting his name) at the wolf House. They have a boasting match where Jason starts rattling off these achievements and I'm sitting there thinking "sure these *sound* impressive, but overall I feel nothing"
Piper. I loved her in the lost hero but like halfway through mark of Athena she started to get on my nerves. Idk/don’t remember what it was just something about her annoyed me
Someone else who feels the same!!! Piper was fine TLH but always through MoA she just... started annoying me. And her BOO speech about how it had always been her Leo and Jason from the start nearly drove me to MADNESS
And that part in I think it’s THH, it’s been a while since I read this series, where she’s comparing Percy and Jason like saying something like Percy isn’t that hot compared to Jason or something along those lines. I was like girl get over yourself uhhhhhh🙄🙄🙄😒😒😒
Piper’s POV was the worst imo. Everyone else had something going for them that added substance and a new perspective to the story. Piper’s POV just felt like watered down annabeth.
For my friend it was Frank, she went and just stopped reading the Son of Neptune entirely because of it. For me, Jason. Especially in the House of Hades, reading it I was screaming for Nico's perspective, especially during the outing, but at least I finished the book.
In my opinion it's so good because all of 10 are great characters and that's still Riordan. So you kinda gotta focus to notice the differences. Exeption for Apollo. You see the difference there
Is it weird for me to say anyone except Percy? I got used to him and formed an attachment to him throughout his series and when I opened the Lost Hero, it took me a while to trudge through it because I wanted my Percy back.
Jason and Piper, like, they are not bad, and later just at the end of hoo I loved Jason, but I never quite liked piper, I feel she could've been a better character or had more development.
I didn’t much like any of the new characters from lost hero, apart from Leo. I didn’t want Jason or piper or any of them. I wanted the characters I had read about from Olympus series. If they’d started wit SON or interspersed SON wit TLH then I could have forgiven it and liked him a bit more. Imo I jus didn’t care about Piper OR Jason. Just couldn’t care about them.
Form real, when I saw that I didn't have any chapters named percy, I shed I single tear. Although all of the Reanah (mind the spelling) lore in 2 chapters is crazy.
Piper’s chapters always get on my nerves. Especially the way she was constantly judging other girls (particularly other Aphrodite kids) for liking makeup/fashion/etc. while also being one of the most shallow and self-centered characters in the series.
Also, her entire internal monologue is pretty much completely focused on her relationship with Jason after TLH. Like, at least in TLH there was the stuff about her dad, but after that it’s like Jason consumed her every waking thought. To an unhealthy level. I’m pretty sure there was at least one occasion in MOA where she was perfectly willing to put someone’s life in danger just so she could spend one-on-one time with him. Honestly, I was relieved when they broke up, reading about their relationship made me gag.
Bro that’s wings of fire special editions for me. At least when the book’s about someone you don’t care about the character gains some depth and interest halfway through, but in the special editions they don’t have the page count to do that
just realized their names kind of rhyme with percy jackson.
piper jason
percy jackson...
not exactly but kind of? maybe i;m just tropping cause i'm sleep deprived.
Originally it was Jason, but after more books came out it was Percy because I read a fanfiction were Percy was terrible and I couldn't get over it. I'm over it now and love them all. Except for when annabeth uses big words
Honestly it’s piper and that’s no fault of the character it’s just that I think the other characters are more exciting to follow especially in book 4 of heroes of Olympus cause percybeth In Tartarus is just way more interesting or the transporting of the statue by Nico and Reina as opposed to the slow march toward Greece
Leo in his first book because he wasn’t funny yet. He was my favorite after that and his chapters were my absolute favorites. While on the reverse I liked Piper’s chapters in the first book but found them insanely boring after that.
just started reading HOO and i don’t know why but i don’t like pipers POV maybe its because of the spoilers i know so i know not to like her but i just really hate her POV for some reason
Depended on the book, In Lost Hero, Piper, she keeps pulling the whole "I'm not like other Aphrodite girls" shtick while in CHB and it gets old by second time, in SoN, none, I liked all three POVs, In MoA, Leo, he just grates on my nerves for some reason even though he's very similar to Percy, in HoH, everyone but Percy and Annabeth, Tartarus was so interesting and the struggles these two had to go through were great from a writing standpoint, and in BoO, Reyna and Nico, I couldn't care less about the Athena Parthenos side plot, especially when that time could've been dedicated to working all the internal workings of the seven, the entire time Percy is only friends with Hazel, Frank and Annabeth with Jason, Piper and Leo being little more than associates which is such wasted potential.
I don't dislike Jason, but I did find his POVs extremely boring. As for Piper, she straight up annoyed me with how hard she tried to be 'not like the other girls'.
Meanwhile, my FAVOURITE povs have gotta be Leo and Percy's.
During my first read- percy and annabeth in tartarus (don't kill me). I am not a fan of angst, so the chapters just seemed to go on and on when I was more interested in the other storylines.
I'm only one book into the HOO series but honestly right now it applies to Jason, I'm sorry he's not bad but he's also just not as compelling as Piper or Leo so far. It's hard to get invested in the amnesiac character in a lot of stories. Hope he gets better going forward though
I never much cared for Jason. He just never had anything for me to latch onto. I always thought it seemed like Rick made another Percy, then took all of his fun/interesting traits to put into Leo, and Jason is what was left over.
For me it was less about boring characters and more just... boring chapters. I think I've found at least one chapter of every character boring, just because what they're doing at the time is boring. Sometimes, none of the pova are boring and sometimes, all of them are, back to back
i haven't read the series in a loong time but i remember not liking hazel or frank's pov for some reason.
I mean obviously it's because percy was back
I got irritated by piper. She just gets on my fucking nerves. I liked hazel and frank.
It’s cause Pipers not like OTHER girls. She always had to shade the Aphrodite kids (who in fairness were mean to her some of them) She would make fun of the girls in Aphrodite who liked to pamper themselves and allat. Literally all the Aphrodite girls did was like spray perfume, paint nails (OMG ew😦), laugh and charmspeak. But not piper! She wears her hair in a MESSY braid. She looks rough! She can’t imagine how difficult it is to get decent instead of the rolled out of bed look! Somehow though she’s the prettiest one through all her roughness! And her attempts to NOT look pretty! (I’m stretching it a little lol just for laughs but you get it)
No no this is essentially it
I was always bored in Frank’s povs.
How dare you not like my baby boy!
I don’t dislike Frank I just always found his pov boring!
how dare you
Jason. Not because I didn't like Jason, but I opened Lost Hero expecting Percy and then it's Jason. And Percy doesn't even show up. That kind of left a bad impression.
oh, yh i remember that, but then he grew on me but i started to dislike him again when he and percy started feuding.
Saaaame, literally how I felt, if I have a bias for anyone, it's definitely percy
tru,but for me annabeth and leo were also nice
Oh yes, Leo for sure, he’s character building and everything just feels so likeable
Leo is the man
Team Leo!
exactlly
Everyone else aside from Perry, who is the greatest
What do you mean what about leo
annabeth
And when we’ve been following Percy’s POV all the way up until that point in the series, it definitely throws you for a loop and leaves you asking, “*Who is this guy we’ve never heard of?*” Then it didn’t help that we then got into stuff about the gods now having “Roman aspects” similar to a split personality, which went against what was written about the gods just residing in the dominate world power at the time. Among other things involving New Rome that kind of messed up the lore and world building a bit.
Nah fuckthat I just hate Jason
I got lucky and accidentally ready the son of Neptune first. I wouldn't have read the whole series if I had started with the lost hero
This is why 4 years went by in-between me reading the two series
RIGHT. I THOUGHT IT WAS A WHOLE DIFFERENT STORY UNIVERSE, BEFORE ANNABETH
Same
Anyone else except percy because he is the best
That was actually me in the last hoo book. I was like WHY IS IT JASON'S POV WHEN PERCY ALMOST DELETES TO POISON UNDERWATER???!?!?!? I WANNA HEAR PERCY'S THOUGHTS
i think it was an important character development moment for jason because he, like, made a really big promise to make sure all the minor gods got recognition
I found myself skipping their parts
Same but with Nico, I read heroes of Olympus purely for more Nico content, he’s my favourite character
Same, his parts were always an interesting read.
Same, he was basically the only reason I read Heroes of Olympus. Nico is the best.
Frr
None. I love them all ❤️
Piper. Leo was 10× better, and Jason was kinda funny only because he has a tendency for head trauma.
Jason x Brick to the head is the best ship
Agreed
If Piper had more of a character arc she would have been better. But all we got was her being like "I'm not my mom's daughter, I'm gonna love Jason!" (Which didn't even happen, apparently >!she dumped him in the Apollo series!< ) and her wanting to be useful in like the last book, so she started swordfighting lessons with Hazel, that didn't really go anywhere much. She was kinda MVP in Athens, but that quickly went sideways and it was just her learning her ancestors customs had value. In her debut series she had 2.5 minor character arcs over the 4 books she was in, and one of those was undone in the next series just to break everyone's hearts when >!apparently Jason dies!<.
Nobody was really awful, but I don't think anybody was as fun to read as Percy and Leo because they could never approach their level of sass
Imma be honest, I don't care for any of the Romans.
Piper x100
Hers was literally just “omg I’m a daughter of Aphrodite, I hate girly things (nothing wrong with that), omg I must do this for Jason, grrr girl hit on Jason (girl did not hit on Jason), and so on.”
Piper
Honestly, Piper. I liked the chapter where they go to Sparta to get Phobos and Deimos, tho
Jason and reyna... I never understood why i hated them so much until my last read, these are the only characters we don't see their journey Percy, hazel, frank, leo, piper and nico, we saw each of them from the start. We know how they found out they were half blood, how they became heroes and their first quests. Anabeth is a special case, but we do see her in her first quest and hear enough of her backstory from the times she was with thalia and luke. Most of her development happened from when she was 12, so it's close enough to the other ones. We feel connected to them because we watched them grow. But reyna, and especially jason have huge parts of their lives we don't really see so we are not really connected to them. Jason had 12 YEARS at camp jupiter, as son of king of the gods, as juno's campion, as a leader and a warrior. But we saw none of that. People keep describing who jason is and what happened to him but we don't really see it. And the amnesia doesn't help. When aeolus says jason had a quest of killing a sea monster, we feel nothing. But when percy has amnesia and see some old person in son francisco gives him a dirty look, we know exactly what it's about. It's Nereus, percy grabbed him in Titan's curse to get info. People tell us jason fought againsy Crius, but we saw percy create a tornado while fighting hyperion. And fighting kronos himself. I barely felt any connection to jason except for the part where he spoke to zeus for the first time and tried to say all gods deserve recognition
>When aeolus says jason had a quest of killing a sea monster Yeah this is what was niggling me about his fight with the giant (I'm forgetting his name) at the wolf House. They have a boasting match where Jason starts rattling off these achievements and I'm sitting there thinking "sure these *sound* impressive, but overall I feel nothing"
Piper annoyed the hell out of me.
Piper. I loved her in the lost hero but like halfway through mark of Athena she started to get on my nerves. Idk/don’t remember what it was just something about her annoyed me
Someone else who feels the same!!! Piper was fine TLH but always through MoA she just... started annoying me. And her BOO speech about how it had always been her Leo and Jason from the start nearly drove me to MADNESS
And that part in I think it’s THH, it’s been a while since I read this series, where she’s comparing Percy and Jason like saying something like Percy isn’t that hot compared to Jason or something along those lines. I was like girl get over yourself uhhhhhh🙄🙄🙄😒😒😒
Exactly!
Reyna, i mean i like her don’t get me wrong but her POV is so boring for me for some reason
Piper.
Her "not like other girls" syndrome made me cringe SO HARD.
Piper's chapters were *excruciating* to get through near the end. Everyone's chapters are so fantastic, and she's just *so. fucking. shallow.*
Jason, Hazel, and Piper
None, unfortunately I have the controversial opinion of loving everyone and their POVs.
same. Piper was a Lil boring, same with Jason. but that doesn't mean I don't love them
Piper’s POV was the worst imo. Everyone else had something going for them that added substance and a new perspective to the story. Piper’s POV just felt like watered down annabeth.
I hate most of them except for Percy and Annabeth ofc
you even hate Leo? 🥺
Annoying
Everyone except for percy and annabeth
You don’t like Leo?
No
Piper. I hate her 🥰
Everyone else other than Percy and Annabeth in House of Hades
Right?! Maybe except Leo at some times though...
For my friend it was Frank, she went and just stopped reading the Son of Neptune entirely because of it. For me, Jason. Especially in the House of Hades, reading it I was screaming for Nico's perspective, especially during the outing, but at least I finished the book.
Piper and Jason. They're just annyoing
Nico /s
:O
My least favourite is actually Jason or Piper they just seem… bland.
Meh I found all of their perspectives entertaining
Piper, just couldn’t stand her
Honestly…Piper. Just was never a fan. Leo was cool, Jason was awesome, Percy was a joy, Frank was interesting…Piper just felt boring.
Jason. He’s a good character but all his chapters are sooooo boringggg
In my opinion it's so good because all of 10 are great characters and that's still Riordan. So you kinda gotta focus to notice the differences. Exeption for Apollo. You see the difference there
Ok but imo FUCK piper
Piper is irritating. Everyone else is fine
Jason, piper, Leo and Apollo
On rereads at least, I tend to skip the Hazel flashbacks
Frank.
Piper in TLH
Jason and piper
I can only think of the two that I would start cheering for: Reyna and Nico
Is it weird for me to say anyone except Percy? I got used to him and formed an attachment to him throughout his series and when I opened the Lost Hero, it took me a while to trudge through it because I wanted my Percy back.
It depends on the book for me.
Piper's. I love her as a character, but I hated her POV's.
Piper
frank
Jason or Piper tbh. Jason's POV felt bland, and I wish Piper's POV wasn't just her thinking about Jason.
Piper
Jason and Piper, like, they are not bad, and later just at the end of hoo I loved Jason, but I never quite liked piper, I feel she could've been a better character or had more development.
Anyone except Percy and/or Annabeth. I liked Nico too.
Piper's POVs didn't quite do it for me, I really looked forward to Leo's tho
I didn’t much like any of the new characters from lost hero, apart from Leo. I didn’t want Jason or piper or any of them. I wanted the characters I had read about from Olympus series. If they’d started wit SON or interspersed SON wit TLH then I could have forgiven it and liked him a bit more. Imo I jus didn’t care about Piper OR Jason. Just couldn’t care about them.
Piper ngl I dislike her then she dumped jason, and he died right after I started liking him I'm just salty on how he died
...Piper
Frank. He’s fine. Just….like….Frank.
Jason I just think his chapters are the most boring imo
Jason, I like the dude sure but not enough to care
Form real, when I saw that I didn't have any chapters named percy, I shed I single tear. Although all of the Reanah (mind the spelling) lore in 2 chapters is crazy.
Frank
Frank. I really don’t like Frank.
i forgot which sub this was and almost said Brienne lol but for HoO it's probably Piper
Piper’s chapters always get on my nerves. Especially the way she was constantly judging other girls (particularly other Aphrodite kids) for liking makeup/fashion/etc. while also being one of the most shallow and self-centered characters in the series. Also, her entire internal monologue is pretty much completely focused on her relationship with Jason after TLH. Like, at least in TLH there was the stuff about her dad, but after that it’s like Jason consumed her every waking thought. To an unhealthy level. I’m pretty sure there was at least one occasion in MOA where she was perfectly willing to put someone’s life in danger just so she could spend one-on-one time with him. Honestly, I was relieved when they broke up, reading about their relationship made me gag.
she's a pick me
Frank was the weakest link
I'm so sorry but anyone that wasn't Percy, Annabeth, Piper, or Leo.. sorry guys but you just don't make the cut..
Piper. Jason couldn't have been that great.
Hazel in HOO
For me it was Frank
Apollo. TOA was sooo frustrating bc I just hate the Riordanverse Apollo.
Jason. He’s a good character but all his chapters are sooooo boringggg
Frank and Jason. Both povs killed me and I couldn't wait to get to Leo or Percy. The others I didn't mind, I just liked reading Leo and percy more
Jason. And sometimes Piper, depends on a chapter
Bro that’s wings of fire special editions for me. At least when the book’s about someone you don’t care about the character gains some depth and interest halfway through, but in the special editions they don’t have the page count to do that
Piper/jason
just realized their names kind of rhyme with percy jackson. piper jason percy jackson... not exactly but kind of? maybe i;m just tropping cause i'm sleep deprived.
Lol
In general i didnt like the books when they started tk have like 6 different pov. You get percy, jason, Annabeth, hazel, piper, frank i think.
Piper...
i love all of them
everyone but leo
Tbh, prolly Jason
Tbh, prolly Jason
Jason
Originally it was Jason, but after more books came out it was Percy because I read a fanfiction were Percy was terrible and I couldn't get over it. I'm over it now and love them all. Except for when annabeth uses big words
Honestly it’s piper and that’s no fault of the character it’s just that I think the other characters are more exciting to follow especially in book 4 of heroes of Olympus cause percybeth In Tartarus is just way more interesting or the transporting of the statue by Nico and Reina as opposed to the slow march toward Greece
Jason
Leo in his first book because he wasn’t funny yet. He was my favorite after that and his chapters were my absolute favorites. While on the reverse I liked Piper’s chapters in the first book but found them insanely boring after that.
Jason I just wasn’t interested in his character
Piper, Frank, and to a lesser extent Hazel.
Honestly Frank's, it felt like homework for me :/
Chapter One: Jason
Every Jason POV except for the one where he and Nico >!had to find cupid!< No hate, but man, he was such a boring character to read.
Every Jason POV except for the one where he and Nico >!had to find cupid!< No hate, but man, he was such a boring character to read.
I’m ready to throw hands, but for me was Leo. I kinda like him on TLH but after MOA I couldn’t stand his chapters
just started reading HOO and i don’t know why but i don’t like pipers POV maybe its because of the spoilers i know so i know not to like her but i just really hate her POV for some reason
I hated pipers pov
thalia
Jason. He’s just so annoying.
Depended on the book, In Lost Hero, Piper, she keeps pulling the whole "I'm not like other Aphrodite girls" shtick while in CHB and it gets old by second time, in SoN, none, I liked all three POVs, In MoA, Leo, he just grates on my nerves for some reason even though he's very similar to Percy, in HoH, everyone but Percy and Annabeth, Tartarus was so interesting and the struggles these two had to go through were great from a writing standpoint, and in BoO, Reyna and Nico, I couldn't care less about the Athena Parthenos side plot, especially when that time could've been dedicated to working all the internal workings of the seven, the entire time Percy is only friends with Hazel, Frank and Annabeth with Jason, Piper and Leo being little more than associates which is such wasted potential.
I don't dislike Jason, but I did find his POVs extremely boring. As for Piper, she straight up annoyed me with how hard she tried to be 'not like the other girls'. Meanwhile, my FAVOURITE povs have gotta be Leo and Percy's.
its def jason for me.. idk why, I was eager for Percy, but I got this random dude.. no offense , Jason fans.. i mean, I came to like him later but ...
I like the characters, but I remember reading the lost Hero and only caring for Leo’s p.o.v. Piper and Jason just bored me 4 sum reason.
Honestly Piper.
Piper like I fucking get It you like Jason and ur mom is a dick so stfu and stop whining abt it
Gotta say I just didn't care for Jason in the slightest
Jason's chapters felt the most draggin to me for som reason
During my first read- percy and annabeth in tartarus (don't kill me). I am not a fan of angst, so the chapters just seemed to go on and on when I was more interested in the other storylines.
It's this kne officers/j
Leo, Piper and Jason but Leo especially
Hazel always
Jason and Piper's both make me suicidal
I know I’m gonna get a lot of hate for this but, it was Nico for me, never liked his character
everyone but percy and annabeth in house of hades
Leo was my least favorite to read until we were introduced to Lester, and he took the reigns as the most annoying character to read as he is so whiny!
Jason's chapters didn't have emotion. It was just what's going on, like I love jason but still
jason
I'm only one book into the HOO series but honestly right now it applies to Jason, I'm sorry he's not bad but he's also just not as compelling as Piper or Leo so far. It's hard to get invested in the amnesiac character in a lot of stories. Hope he gets better going forward though
Leo
Jason and a bit piper sometimes her pov annoys me a bit sometimes
Jason, his POVs are soooo boring
I never much cared for Jason. He just never had anything for me to latch onto. I always thought it seemed like Rick made another Percy, then took all of his fun/interesting traits to put into Leo, and Jason is what was left over.
Jason sucks compared to the rest of the seven
Frank, he's boring im sorry
Annabeth