Author: Aimée Carter
Type: Young Adult Novel
Genre: Fantasy
Series: Yest fists in A Goddess Test series
Copyright: 2011
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Rating: 2.5 out of 5
Summary: From Good Reads
EVERY GIRL WHO HAS 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 suceeds, she'll become Henry's future bride and a goddess.
IF SHE FAILS...
Feelings:
The debut novel by Aimée Carter this book takes on an interesting topic and doesn't quite fulfill the promise of the premise.
This is a book about Greek Gods. It takes Greek myths and modernizes them. Some that have written reviews on the book object to this. I guess I didn't have as much a problem with that as I did with the fact that I didn't really think many of the characters actually seemed like gods. I got to the end of the book and we had a cast of 14 Greek Gods with modern names and I think I could have placed maybe 4 of them with their correct Greek name.
Don't get me wrong I enjoyed reading the book I just thought using Greek mythology would have played a bigger part in the story rather than having it be a love story. I like a little romantic interaction in a story and find that interesting but seems to me like it was the focus rather than Kate learning to be a Goddess. Seems to me if you were being tested to become the Queen of the Underworld with Hades you would be tested on some relevant things...and maybe learn some about that job. I know this is a Young Adult story and we don't want things to complicated but a little history would have been nice. If I was Kate I would have been asking a lot more questions particularly if I thought I my life was in danger.
Here is a list of the 14 goods that are in the story. See if you can do better matching them up with their new names.
Zeus: The Father of Gods and men, he rules from Mount Olympus. Son of Titans Rhea and Cronus. The God of sky and thunder.
Hera: The wife of Zeus. Daughter of Titans Rhea and Cronus.The Goddess of women and marriage.
Poseidon: Son of Titans Rhea and Cronus.The God of the sea.
Demeter: Daughter of Titans Rhea and Cronus. The Goddess of harvest.
Hades: Son of Titans Rhea and Cronus. The God of the underworld.
Hestia: Daughter of Titans Rhea and Cronus. The Goddess of hearth and home.
Ares: Son of Zeus and Hera. God of War.
Aphrodite: Origins are debatable, some say from a castration done by Cronus others say a daughter of Zeus. Goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation.
Hermes: Son of Zeus. God of transitions and boundaries.
Athena: Daughter of Zeus. Goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, law and justice, just warfare, mathematics, strength, strategy, the arts, crafts, and skill.
Apollo: Son of Zeus and Leto, and has a twin sister, the chaste huntress Artemis. God of ight and the sun, truth and prophecy, healing, plague, music, and poetry.
Artemis: Daughter of Zeus and Leto, twin brother Apollo. Goddess of the hunt, forest and hills and the moon.
Hephaestus: Son of Zeus and Hera. God of Fire, Metalworking, Stone masonry, and the Art of Sculpture.
Dionysus: Son of Zeus and a mortal woman. God of Wine, Theater and Ecstasy.
All in all this was an interesting book and I will read the other in the series, but not because of the Greek mythology because that falls way short and just isn't believable.
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