User blog comment:Hyperborean/"The House of Hades" – official expectations blog/@comment-4646842-20130605185136

Some ambrosia for thought (See what I did there? No? . . . ok):
 * (!Son of Sobek SPOLIER!) A lot of fans are thinking that Percy's going to call Carter all the way from Tartarus. Somehow, I don't think that's going to happen because a) I think RR would want the Percy/Carter duo to be a one-story kind of thing and b) Percy isn't going to bring a friend (or whatever Carter is to him) to the worst place anyone could ever be in. But if RR does decide to do that and we would get a Kane guest appearance, then the Serious Booty-Kicking 2.0 would commence. I'd like to see how he's going to pull it off.
 * Even when with all these things happening, I feel that none of the Seven would die. If one of them did, then it'd probably be in the last book, and it would probably be very dramatic and heart-breaking (hey, this is RR we're talking about!).
 * I don't know why, but I'd like to see a POV of Reyna's. It'd really be nice to see what's underneath the strong and fearless praetor of Camp Jupiter. It would also be nice to see how she would try to delay the Roman invasion (because we all read about how she looked like she didn't want to participate in the strategizing and such even though she's the praetor AND a war goddess's daughter). Plus, we get to know her family name in the House of Hades.
 * Did you guys see Percy's eyes? Something's wrong — aside from the fact that they're in Tartarus of course. What I meant was that something's wrong psychologically. This is the first time I have felt this scared for two characters.
 * I'm looking forward to Nico's role in the book. In the Titan's Curse, he was a supporting character; in the Battle of the Labyrinth, he was a main supporting character; in the Last Olympian, he was a major character who worked behind the scenes and in the Mark of Athena, he only showed up at the end. I would like to see him as a major character in the front lines.
 * Gaea's going to taunt them a lot more than in the previous books. Don't worry guys. These demigods are some tough cookies.
 * I think that they would be able to close the Doors of Death, but the Giants WILL have risen and amassed an army powerful enough to conquer the world. But the Seven will also have to stop the Greco-Latin War, so they have to fly all the way back to Long Island and calm both sides down. I'm pretty sure the Romans would try to kill them on sight (except Reyna, probably), but then they would try to get to unite both camps, AND THEN Rick would end the House of Hades on a cliffy. Again.
 * This probably isn't directly related, but to the layout artist(s) of this wiki, when's the House of Hades cover going to be put up along with the Battle of the Labyrinth cover on the background? (Excited much?)

Well, that's all I've got to say. Let's just hope that the world won't end on October 8th.