The Lost Hero Characters

No One In ParticularThere's no nice way to put it: Jason is bland. Piper can ooh and aah over his sexy sky blue eyes and the dreamy little scar on his lip all she likes—all this means is that he'...

Unlucky in LovePiper is the daughter of Aphrodite, so it makes sense that much of her story is about love of all sorts. You'd think her mom would go a little bit easier on her though, because love...

Most MythicLeo is the character who gets a story most like the actual Greek myths. His flashbacks to his childhood with Tía Callida are odd and wrong and disturbing in a way that has more to do wi...

The first time we see the fighting satyr Coach Gleeson Hedge race into battle, he's attacking Dylan, the evil storm spirit. Piper is falling, and Hedge leaps at Dylan, yelling to Jason, "Save her!...

Tristan McClane is a movie star who usually plays heroes. In The Lost Hero, though, he's the damsel in distress. Tristan gets captured by the evil giant Enceladus, and spends the entire book tied u...

Hera is, as she says, the "goddess of family" (55.25). Family is usually thought of as a good thing, signifying love and togetherness. And Hera does the love and togetherness thing—she is trying...

Leo's dragon, Festus, is probably our favorite character. The reason is simple: Animals are better than people. Festus tips his head and oil gushes out and we sees our cat vomiting on the carpet. (...

Gaea is the main bad guy, doing all the bad guy things—she plots, she schemes, she threatens. She has evil minions, and then her minions have minions of their own. On the bad guy roster, Gaea's c...

The Lost Hero is structured as one darn thing after another. You fight the storm spirits here, battle Medea there, struggle with giants over in that corner, and maybe get teased by the snotty girl...