The Goddess Inheritance (Goddess Test, #3)

by Aimée Carter

[Angie]

I was very nervous going into The Goddess Inheritance due to certain plot points, but it pleasantly surprised me. It's a bittersweet yet hopeful ending to the series. It's been nine months since Kate's kidnapping, she's about to give birth, and no one knows where she really is. She's desperate to save her child even if that means giving herself up. Calliope is mad with envy, but Cronus appears to be on Kate's side. Sooner than I expected, Kate was free, but the war was still ongoing and she has a son and a husband to save, as well as all of humanity.

The Goddess Inheritance is very baby focused, but not quite as badly as I was dreading. Kate, understandably, wants to save her son and have him grow up knowing at least one of his parents, preferably Henry (she is a martyr, of course!). Everything she does is for that baby, but luckily, he isn't around much, since there is a full blown war happening elsewhere. A lot of the plot is centered around Kate repeatedly offering her life in the exchange of everyone else's. Meanwhile, Walter has his head up his ass and refuses to listen to any alternative plans that may save lives, causing Kate to go even more overboard in her self-sacrificing.

I was annoyed with Kate a lot of the time. I know she's doing the right thing, since the rest of council is too focused on saving their own butts, but come on, have some kind of sense of self-preservation! But the worst of it was how she kept insisting on going into battle with the rest of the council despite knowing she has zero training. She is told repeatedly that not only does she have no battle training, but she's only been a goddess for a year, so she's simply not strong enough. She'll be a liability rather than an asset! This fact just does not compute with her! Of course, she doesn't listen, comes up with a plan that fails, but accidentally works in some other way.

Despite these complaints, there was something very compelling and addictive about The Goddess Inheritance, much like the first book. I still can't pinpoint what it is I enjoyed about this series, but I just did. Maybe it was how the author's take on the gods was so far off from what the myths say as to be kind of refreshing. Or it was the dramafest of a dysfunction romance. Or just the crazy havoc that the gods wreck on each other lives for being so self-absorbed. I don't know, but it was fun, and I liked it.

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