Review: The Godddess Test (Goddess Test, #1) by Aimee Carter

Title: The Goddess Test
Series: Goddess Test, #1
Author: Aimee Carter
Publication Year: 2011, by Harlequin Teen


Rating: 5/5

Become immortal or die trying

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...

The fact that I love history and I'm obssesed with greek gods probably didn't help, BUT I FOUND A NEW OBSSESION.

Like I didn't have enough of those.

This is good. Like real real real real real real really good. It has greek gods. Handsome greek gods. And a stubborn heroine.

What can you want more?

It's not the newest thing, I know and it doesn't have a bazillion fans, but it makes me feel so good when I think about it. In front of my eyes are belly-dancing foxes (currently reading Opposition, what can I do about it?) that are screaming AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME.

It walks on my tail (who said I don't have one?) that there aren't more fans of this series. You have to be more patient with Henry/Hades but he was left by the girl he thought he was gonna spend his eternity with, ALRIGHT?! Damn Persephone all you want, but NOT MY HENRY.

It's not like Aimee Carter is the first one to come up with the idea of the seven tests, I've read a lot of books with this theme, some even with the entire bachelor's-family-choosing-future-queen (i. e. the Selection, by Kiera Cass), but I feel like this was one of the best written out of them all. And I loooved the characters, especially Ava, Kate's best friend. After I've read the novella from her perspective, I loved her even more - how she sees love in everything around her. Some might not fall for it, but I'm crappy like that and I'm gonna say it's sweet. GOT SOMETHING ABOUT THAT? A girl can dream.

READ THIS READ THIS READ THIS.