User blog comment:Hyperborean/"The House of Hades" – official expectations blog/@comment-5604127-20130302213549/@comment-5774152-20130304225935

FIsrt of all, Rick Riordan does not care too much about what his fans want to hear about. He made the prophecy since The Last Olympian, so i'm sure he knew what he was going to do when he wrote about four years ago. And a lot of people don't like Piper all that much but he does not change the way she is. And what the fans want and what is necessary are two different things. Everybody likes different characters, so it is necessary to make even POV's even amoung all of them. If everybody like and dislike the same characters then it still wouldnt matter because some characters are so important to the story that you need to know what is going on with them.

And you have to keep in mind that this is a different series, this is not Percy Jackson and the Olympians anymore. So you would have no right anyway to rant to Rick about the matter. Also, you kind of have to care about what the public wants to keep people reading your stories. It is not about him, it is about his fans in a way, but not in the way you are describing it. Everyone likes different characters so to keep everybody happy, he has to write a POV for all of them.