The Goddess Test- Aimee Carter Kate’s mother is dying, and to grant her last wish, Kate moves the both of them back to Eden, Michigan, her mother’s hometown.  There, Kate meets Henry, who claims to be the Greek god Hades.  He brings a girl back from the dead, and promises Kate that he will keep her mother alive if she comes to live with him and tries to pass seven tests.  The tests will determine if Kate is worthy enough.  If she passes, she’ll become immortal and Henry’s wife.  If not, her memory is erased, and she loses her mother. The more I thought about it, the more I disliked the book.  It wasn’t a total loss, but it wasn’t great either.  Aimee Carter does a Frankenstein hack job on Greek myths; you may recognize who the characters are supposed to be, but their stories are unrecognizable.  I loved Greek mythology when I was younger, so it was pretty atrocious to read the changes Carter made to the original myths.  Hopefully, kids/teens that pick up this book don’t think that the stories told in here are the true mythology tales  However, if you ignore all that and take the story at face value, it’s a fun and light read.  What redeemed it was that although the content was not great, it wasn’t necessarily poorly written.  I might read the second book of the trilogy if I didn’t have anything else to read.  1.5/5

The Goddess Test- Aimee Carter

Kate’s mother is dying, and to grant her last wish, Kate moves the both of them back to Eden, Michigan, her mother’s hometown.  There, Kate meets Henry, who claims to be the Greek god Hades.  He brings a girl back from the dead, and promises Kate that he will keep her mother alive if she comes to live with him and tries to pass seven tests.  The tests will determine if Kate is worthy enough.  If she passes, she’ll become immortal and Henry’s wife.  If not, her memory is erased, and she loses her mother.

The more I thought about it, the more I disliked the book.  It wasn’t a total loss, but it wasn’t great either.  Aimee Carter does a Frankenstein hack job on Greek myths; you may recognize who the characters are supposed to be, but their stories are unrecognizable.  I loved Greek mythology when I was younger, so it was pretty atrocious to read the changes Carter made to the original myths.  Hopefully, kids/teens that pick up this book don’t think that the stories told in here are the true mythology tales  However, if you ignore all that and take the story at face value, it’s a fun and light read.  What redeemed it was that although the content was not great, it wasn’t necessarily poorly written.  I might read the second book of the trilogy if I didn’t have anything else to read.  1.5/5