Book Review: The Goddess Test

The Goddess Test (#1) written by Aimee Carter

Release Date: April 19th, 2011

Publisher: Harlequin Teen

Format of Novel: Nook

Rating: 3/5 stars

Summary (from good reads): Every girl who had taken the test has died.

Now it's Kate's turn.

It's always been just Kate and her mom - and her mother is dying. Her last wish? To move back to her childhood home. So Kate's going to start at a new school with no friends, no other family and the fear that her mother won't live past the fall.

Then she meets Henry. Dark. Tortured. And mesmerizing. He claims to be Hades, god of the Underworld - and if she accepts his bargain, he'll keep her mother alive while Kate tries to pass seven tests.

Kate is sure he's crazy - until she sees him bring a girl back from the dead. Now saving her mother seems crazily possible. If she succeeds, she'll become Henry's future bride and a goddess.

If she fails...

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I'd always wanted to read this trilogy and ever had the chance took till I decided to go online and read it. And, I was disappointed, very disappointed. While I do agree about the author's concept was interesting, what I don't agree about the way she did not do her research. I've taken mythology courses in college and that part of me was ready to throw the nook out the door when I . I heavily dislike authors who don't take the time to research specific things for their books and unfortunately, Aimee Carter didn't do it well enough to make this book excel to the levels I believe it could. Maybe the sequels and novellas are better than this, but I'm not so sure yet.

Anyway, what I was okay with in this book were the characters and premise. The characters were interesting, but they were so meyh at the same time. You know what I mean? I mean, Kate was too much of a 'god's send' (haha pun) and didn't clearly have any flaws in her characters other than being naive, and way too forgiving for my taste. Henry was cool, but I wanted him to be more sinister to match the Hades persona. Everyone was either too 'good' or too 'bad, but no where in between and the plot twists were so, so predictable that I think I eye rolled over 10 times. And like I said about the premise, I did enjoy it and I was edger to read this book, but afterwords, I was hoping for something more exciting.

So in conclusion for this review, this book had the debut blues where the research was poorly done, and the story didn't grip me as much as I was hoping for years of not reading it. I may continue the series just to get it over with, and perhaps hope it becomes better than this book. But, it wasn't great of a book. It was good enough to enjoy a quick read, but not a wonderful read to fall in love with.