The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter

The Goddess Test (Goddess Test, #1)

by Aimée Carter

When Kate agrees to take the Goddess Test, she doesn't know every girl who has taken it has died...

It's always been just Kate and her mom, but now her mother is dying. Her last wish is 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 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 amazingly possible. If she succeeds, she'll become Henry's future bride--and a goddess. But what Kate doesn't know is that no one has ever passed the Goddess Test.

Books and novellas in the Goddess Test series:

The Goddess Test
The Goddess Hunt
(ebook novella)
Goddess Interrupted
The Goddess Queen
(ebook novella)*
The Lovestruck Goddess (ebook novella)*
Goddess of the Underworld (ebook novella)*
God of Thieves (ebook novella)*
God of Darkness (ebook novella)*
The Goddess Inheritance

* Also available in print in The Goddess Legacy anthology

Reviewed by ladygrey on

3 of 5 stars

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I liked [b:The Goddess Test|9681214|The Goddess Test (Goddess Test #1)|Aimee Carter|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Nve345cKL._SL75_.jpg|14569146], but I didn't love it. Part of my issue might have been that I didn't identify with the main character. There isn't a lot of depth to any of the characters but when Kate spent an entire chapter refusing to believe anything that was happening to her it just distanced me from her. Her insistence on rationality and the "real world" when she was clearly in the middle of something extraordinary (and really, would I have picked up this book if I didn't want something otherworldly or already knew we were dealing with Greek gods?) just didn't work for me.

Still, it wasn't badly written and I really like Greek mythology. [a:Aimee Carter|767317|Aimee Carter|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1290233298p2/767317.jpg]'s take on it was young and fresh.

Overall, it's a simple, sweet, fun story and I'll probably read the sequel.

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