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The Goddess Test (Goddess Test #1)
By : by Aimee Carter (Goodreads Author)
ratings : 51,546
ratings reviews : 5,108
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Original Title : The Goddess Test
ISBN : 0373210264 (ISBN13: 9780373210268)
Edition Language : English
Series : http://www.aimeecarter.com/About_the_Books.html
Paperback, 293 pages
Published April 19th 2011 by Harlequin Teen
Characters : Goddess Test #1
Setting : Katherine "Kate" Winters, Henry
Description : 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 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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REVIEWS :Dear Ms. Carter,Since you appear to unable or unwilling to stretch your research skills so far as to google the Greek gods, I have prepared for you a small primer, in the hopes that your future endeavours will not gratuitously and flagrantly denude one of the oldest mythologies in the world. Following is a (very short) account of some of the major Olympian gods who apparently play a role in your “book”. Zeus: The ruler of the gods. That means what he says goes. This is a pantheon of the gods, *This ARC was provided for me by Harlequin and no money was exchanged.*I requested this galley because, after reading the blurb, I immediately decided that the concept was awesome and that this book would be made of win. I tried to rationalize with myself that it might not be the fantastic story I was imagining, but it still had to be good, right? RIGHT?Of course the concept of Vampire has already been taken, murdered, chopped into little pieces, jellified and poured into a modern, PC mould of Warning: There are some vulgarities in here because I’m a very vulgar person. Look away if your sensitive eyes can’t handle it.Man, getting through this book was like having my wisdom teeth pulled out with no lidocaine. Terrible, I tell ya.But anyway, let’s get on to the review, shall we? The Goddess Test has an awesome, awesome premise. Girl going through tests to become the bride of Hades? HECK YEAH, GIVE ME SOME OF THAT! And it started that way but shortly after immediately crashed and [Warning: Profanity] What is this?Seriously? What did I just read? Because it's supposed to be a retelling of the myth of Hades/Persephone. Instead I got some emo god with no incest, no monsters or three headed Cerberus.I can forgive errors if the material is good over all. So I can deal with the mythical flaws in Xena/Hercules and Percy Jackson and the Olympians and Disney's Hercules. However, this piece completely bastardizes the source material by turning into a cheap romance, that lacks any [image error]Wrath- Zeus (or should I say Walter) shooting a lightning bolt at some poor soulGreed, (and a little wrath) - Prometheus, the guy Zeus chained to a rock for all eternity because he gave fire to manPride - The Parthenon in Athens, of which Athena and Poseidon fought tooth and nail to be the patron of the cityLust......do I need to show a montage of all the women, other goddesses, and the nymphs that some of the gods impregnated? (Not that the other goddesses, such as Aphrodite, the This explains a lot. This was a truly terrible book, but I feel so bad giving it such a low rating. It's like I just kicked a puppy. A really stupid puppy that's wet my bed for the 47th time, but still...kicking a puppy.I've read a lot of unrealistic heroines in my day, but Kate tops the list. She's not all that terrible: I'll give her some points. She is kind, caring, with a soft spot bigger and more tender than a newborn's head. The first sentence of the story gives us a preview of her character:"I spent my 2.5 starsHere's the thing about this book: it was decent enough. Not nearly as good as what I was hoping for, but decent. Now, I have been in the midst of a passionate love affair with Greek mythology since the 2nd grade. I am perpetually in the throes of a burning passion, you may say. I love it all - it's like a soap opera times 100. Greek mythology contains some of the most entertaining and delightfully sinful stories I have ever had the pleasure of reading, telling, reenacting....Anyway, did DNF at 9%a wise woman once said 'fuck this shit' and she lived happily ever after. This book took me FOREVER to get!! And you know what it's like when you finally have access to the book you've always wanted.....CUE THE CHA-CHA DANCE!!!But seriously, even 5 MONTHS is still a little hard to take in....I mean, 5 MONTHS!! Seems like Carter is a little famous in the book world!! :)Ok, enough with the music and happiness. We're getting serious.*puts on biker jacket and pretends to look cool*This book was an EPIC read!!! As in- "when I was a 10 year old, I liked every single book Um…did I read a different book than many others? After reading rave reviews all over Goodreads and the Internet, I was expecting something swooningly romantic and highly inventive. Instead, THE GODDESS TEST read like a first draft of sorts, full of character clichés and a meandering plot that takes the excitement out of, well, “excitement.”I stopped reading about a quarter of the way into the book because, at that point, still nothing pertaining to the main plot had occurred. It’s actually quite It's official. Aimee Carter is now on my list of Authors who are fucking idiots didn't do enough research, right next to the Casts and dear Alexandra Adornetto. Seriously. How can someone fuck up Greek Mythology that bad? Even my twelve-year-old cousin, whose only knowledge of Greek Mythology is from The Lightning Thief, knows that there are twelve Olympians, not thirteen, and mortals can't dole out punishments to gods.Okay, I've calmed down a little. Now on to the rest of the review.Summary *This ebook was provided to me at no cost by the publisher*This book....wow! Every now and then, there’s a story that stops you and takes your breath away....this was one of those. I loved it! Simply, completely, loved it. I can barely begin to say how much. From the very beginning I was caught. I was sucked into Kate’s tale and her story and I didn’t want to leave. I finished it in less than two days and when I wasn’t reading it I was thinking about reading it; eager to get back to the story. I I always, always love it when Greek Mythological deities and characters get resurrected, recreated and put in present settings. Goddess Test is another novel that sets an enjoyably creative take on Greek mythology. I also love how this book uniquely centers its story on one of the least liked Greek gods-of course you know him- Hades. I'm reading the sequel in the near but not definite future. Lol. ^^.
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