The Goddess Test
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4.3 • 74 Ratings
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- $11.99
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Publisher Description
Book one in The Goddess Series from #1 international bestselling author Aimée Carter.
When Kate agrees to take the Goddess Test, she doesn’t know every girl who has taken it has died…
It’s always been just Kate and her mom, but now her mother is dying. Her last wish is 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 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 amazingly possible. If she succeeds, she’ll become Henry’s future bride?and a goddess. But what Kate doesn’t know is that no one has ever passed the Goddess Test.
Books and novellas in the Goddess series:
The Goddess Test
The Goddess Hunt (ebook novella)
Goddess Interrupted
The Goddess Queen (ebook novella)*
The Lovestruck Goddess (ebook novella)*
Goddess of the Underworld (ebook novella)*
God of Thieves (ebook novella)*
God of Darkness (ebook novella)*
The Goddess Inheritance
* Also available in print in The Goddess Legacy anthology
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Carter's first YA novel, the Greek pantheon isn't just down to Earth, it's occupying Eden, Mich., and attending high school. Kate Winters doesn't notice anything special about classmates Ava, James, and Dylan, but pale-eyed Henry gets her attention when he appears to resurrect Ava from the dead after a malicious prank goes horribly wrong. Kate can't quite believe that Henry is the god of the underworld, as he claims, but she also can't dismiss him. Kate's mother is dying of cancer, and Kate is willing to grasp at anything that might win her one more loving maternal conversation. The bargain she strikes with Henry is a grim one, but the full enormity of what she has undertaken "live forever or die trying" is not revealed until it's too late to recant. Carter wears her influences openly, with many passages reading like outtakes from Robin McKinley's Beauty by way of Neil Gaiman's Sandman. Nevertheless, the narrative is well executed, and Kate is a heroine better equipped than most to confront and cope with the inexplicable. Ages 13 18.
Customer Reviews
Good Story
I found a couple of flaws in this book. The god of war didn’t want anything to do with war, though his possible reasoning is understandable. Some gods stayed out of the narrator’s way or did things that I didn’t think they would. But overall, this is a great story, and there are small details in the book that hint at some future parts, which help tie in everything.
I liked it but
I liked this, but the names bothered me. Sofia means wisdom, but is given to the goddess of the hearth. Hera was renamed Calliope, who is already a Muse. Irene is a Grace, but this Athena’s new name. The only one that I can approve of is Philip for Poseidon (lover of horses)