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Nov 20, 2011

Kat rated it:

*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 in More...

59 comments like (125 people liked it)

Mar 12, 2011

Vinaya rated it:

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 More...

68 comments like (166 people liked it)

Apr 26, 2011

Krystle rated it:

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 immedi More...

27 comments like (81 people liked it)

Jul 07, 2011

Lina rated it:

[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. So I ask you Aimee Carter, did you look into Greek Mythology at all, or did you just decide that the myths that have been around for thousands of years, were just not interesting to you?

I can forgive errors if the material is good over all. S More...

9 comments like (35 people liked it)

Apr 20, 2011

Morgan rated it:

Wrath- Zeus (or should I say Walter) shooting a lightning bolt at some poor soul

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Greed, (and a little wrath) - Prometheus, the guy Zeus chained to a rock for all eternity because he gave fire to man

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Pride - The Parthenon in Athens, of which Athena and Poseidon fought tooth and nail to be the patron of the city

Lust......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 More...

71 comments like (67 people liked it)

Aug 23, 2011

Rachel rated it:

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Aug 07, 2011

Paige rated it:

Also appears on The Screaming Nitpicker. I recieved my copy from the publisher through NetGalley.

Edit on June 15: After seeing the blurb for the second book Goddess Interrupted, I'm downgrading this to one star. I only gave it two because I momentarily liked Kate, but no more. No more!

As her mother dies of cancer, eighteen-year-old Kate Winters takes her to Eden, Michigan so her mother can die in peace in her quiet hometown. Kate's plans are to stay until her mother dies More...

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Apr 30, 2011

Steph Su rated it:

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 ac More...

7 comments like (24 people liked it)

Jan 30, 2012

prettybooks rated it:

I decided to read The Goddess Test after previously having watched Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (sorry, I’ve not read the books). I enjoyed the mix of Greek mythology, light romance, and action. The Goddess Test appeared to have a similar plot as well as favourable reviews, and so I figured I may as well see what the fuss was about.

I've decided that, if you wish to enjoy The Goddess Test, you have to:
1. Accept that it is completely light-hearted and unreal More...

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Sep 22, 2011

Anna rated it:

Okay, here's the thing about this book: it was decent enough. Not nearly as good as what I was expecting, but decent.

Now, I have been having a love affair with Greek mythology since the 2nd grade. I love it all- it's like a soap opera times 100. It is some of the most entertaining and sinful group of stories I have ever had the pleasure to read. Hear that, Ms. Carter? Sinful. And here leads to what I didn't like about this book.

The. Greek. Gods. Sinned. Like. Motherfuck More...

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Sep 07, 2011

Brittany rated it:

I had hopes that this book was going to be good (as I try not to have too high expectations) and I wasn't disappointed. The Goddess Test was a very good book. I haven't really read any other books based on Greek mythology and I found it to be quite fascinating.

Kate is an 18 year old girl who has to look after her very ill mother. Her Mothers last wish is that she wants to move back to her hometown of Eden. So here Kate has start a new school where she knows nobody but surprisingly s More...

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Feb 07, 2012

Saniya rated it:

Hmmph... Is it just me, who wanted to read this book so bad, just because of the beautiful cover and the amazing plot, or did this also happened to everybody else?! Big time *Sigh*
I was counting the days for when this book is going to be released. But why, WHY Lord does this quote "Do NOT judge a book by its cover" beats me every single time, when I hope a new book is going to be good because of the cover. Well, the cover has always fooled me but the plot? The theme of this book More...

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Jan 14, 2012

Parvathy rated it:

I am a big fan of mythology. Call me crazy but the story of Persephone and Hades is my favorite and always thought that this story was worth looking in to. So to come across a YA book which is kind of based on this story you can imagine my excitement. This book had every potential to be a good read if it was not for the fact that the author did not do her research properly. Usually certain flaws like this can be overlooked and can be attributed to the author's creativity or imagination but even More...

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Dec 13, 2011

Cinnamon rated it:

This review may also be found on A Thousand Little Pages.

Kate enters the town of Eden with a mother who is on the brink of death and a hope for a better future that is fading bit by bit with the passage of time. As she drags herself through the motions of daily life, weird begin to occur around her. Her new frenemy is raised from the dead after an accident that definitely involved a large quantity of blood, and the only explanation Kate gets from the incident involves a certain dark- More...

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Apr 26, 2011

Lamia rated it:

This can also be seen at The Book Eater

This is more a 2.5 stars, but I'm rounding up, for once. I don't really know why. My brain works in strange, strange ways.

Here are the annotations I made while reading The Goddess Test. I realized after viewing all of them that they may just tell you as much as my review would, with the bonus of being funnier (I think). Plus I'm lazy. So. Here we go.

- Narrator is not a pushover at school. I was scared she'd have the Bella More...

8 comments like (5 people liked it)

Mar 05, 2011

Tori [Book Faery] rated it:

See this review in it's entirety at:
http://www.book-faery.blogspot.com

Two Ratings:
Technical Factor: 2.5 / 5 Stars
Enjoyment Factor: 3.5 / 5 Stars

I could go on for days reading about all the Greek myths that are available. The gods, particularly Hades, Artemis, and Athena, were my favorite aspects of the myths. So, to have them make an appearance in THE GODDESS TEST made me quite giddy. Then to discover that TGT was based upon the Hades/Persep More...

11 comments like (5 people liked it)

Jan 22, 2011

Lisa rated it:

Aimee Carter is a debut author (and only 24 years old!) and her Goddess Test series is definitely one to watch for (planning on being a three book series...so far; GODDESS INTERRUPTED will follow in February 2012).

To start with, I felt abashed that this book made me cry so easily! The book opens with protagonist Kate and a rundown of her role as caregiver for her dying mom. Carter's description of this heart-wrenching process is mature and well-written.

This book also pays More...

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May 04, 2011

Peep (Pop! Pop!) rated it:

I don't know what I expected when I read this one. I didn't know what it was about. It was better than I thought it would be. Kinda weird, yet I still liked it! I think it picked up more towards the end.

I loved how the book started out. I love how loyal Kate was to her mom, who was dying of cancer. I liked how she just came off as more mature than the other high schoolers. How she just outright said what her plans were. She wasn't there to make friends, she was there for her mom. For More...

9 comments like (3 people liked it)

May 17, 2011

Maria rated it:

I recommend The Goddess Test.

*****

As I said, she chose to die rather than to stay with me. I was her husband, but she simply loved him more.

This is a new series to watch out for.

I was not smitten at first. Although the story has a new concept, the first half of the book was just average to me. It’s not bad, but it’s not good either. But moving on the second half, i felt i was falling. It’s like the book and I started out as friends. We find something in common More...

4 comments like (6 people liked it)

Jan 14, 2012

Amelia, the pragmatic idealist rated it:

More like 2.5, but I rounded up.

I wrote my first review of this book back when I was going through a "smile-and-layer-on-the-BS" phase. I thought that if I just tried to be positive and talk about all the good little things in a book, I'd be like _______, the "popular reviewers," who eat rainbows and poop butterflies and live in a world where every book is interesting, every story is thrilling, and every character 'touched them in a special way.'

Then More...

5 comments like (2 people liked it)

Jun 02, 2011

Avery rated it:

So I feel kinda like a booger in saying this, but I feel like how I recently felt when reading Julie Kagawa's "The Iron King". There had been so much hype in the blogosphere world surrounding both of these books and the vast majority of people seemed to have really enjoyed them, but I personally don't feel as if they have lived up to my expectations at all, I feel like they both had really great potential, but they didn't entirely live up to said potential.

I found, l More...

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Sep 07, 2011

Heather rated it:

This book had a great premise (mythology! Hades! love story!) and I loved what Aimee Carter did with it. I loved the way the story was built, with a murder mystery theme underlying the drama—who is killing off all the girls? will Kate be next??—and some great unexpected twists at the end. Not to mention the love story. Swooooooon.

This story reminds me of Beauty and the Beast, one of my all time favorite stories. A contract ties the initially unwilling Kate to the estate with the dar More...

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Jul 20, 2011

Jessica-In Christian Grey's Playroom... rated it:

Well, what can I say. Not only do I love this book, but I love anything to do-or influenced-by Greek mythology; so naturally this book was right up my street. I've wanted to read it for so long, it's been sat on my shelf for ages, and I eventually picked it up and I was totally not disappointed with it.

The Goddess Test is a beautiful, fast paced and fascinating book. As I mentioned a minute ago, I love anything to do with Greek mythology and the Gods in particular. That's what made th More...

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Feb 11, 2012

Christy (TheReaderBee) added it

Review also on my Blog

The Goddess Test was an absolutely delightful read. The story is based around the Greek myth of Persephone. (Persephone was abducted by Hades, and forced to be Queen of the Underworld. A quite fascinating myth, should you ever want to read it.) I love books on Greek Mythology, and I was really intrigued by this book.

Kate’s mother is dying of cancer, and she wants to move back to her hometown, Eden. Kate is 18, and had to quit her senior year of scho More...

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May 22, 2011

Book Flame rated it:

Review from www.Bookflame.blogspot.com

I wasn't too sure what to expect going into this book. My thoughts when I heard about The Goddess Test was who can possibly go wrong writing about Greek mythology combined with romance there is just no way! Did Aimee Carter prove my thought correct? Yes!. I have a tendency to read with a critical eye so did I find some flaws? In my opinion yes but did it bring the book down as a whole? Continue and you will find out.

Katherine Winters whom More...

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Feb 26, 2011

Lauren rated it:

Initial Thoughts After Finishing:

Absolutely AMAZING! Unique, romantic, and full of fantastic characters, this book was brilliant in more than ways than one way to say the least. My only compliant? I have to wait until next year to read the sequel. :(

Official Review:

Every year comes the books that completely blow me away in the best way possible, and Aimee Carter's The Goddess Test is one of those books. Unique, romantic, and full of fantastic characters, this More...

6 comments like (6 people liked it)

Mar 28, 2011

Isamlq rated it:

At first I was all :)

Now, I'm all, "No. just no." :(

There’s a lot that was either too convenient, suspicious or implausible. When Henry said, “There is always a rational explanation, but sometimes things may seem irrational or impossible if you don’t know all the rules,” I took it as a dig because this line came in the heels of me trying to make sense of a couple of things that made little sense to me.

The prologue had me interested; the first cha More...

5 comments like (2 people liked it)

Jun 22, 2011

Florentine rated it:

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Mar 16, 2011

Vivienne rated it:

Kate's mother is dying. She has one last wish before she relinquishes her life; to return to her childhood home. Kate as her soul carer, carries out her last wishes, scared that her mother may not survive the journey home.

Kate instantly becomes the new girl in a new school with no friends and family to support her and each day is a struggle. After Ava decides to play a trick on new girl Kate and everything goes wrong, Kate finds herself making a bargain with Henry who claims to be H More...

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Aug 15, 2011

K rated it:

Dying mother. New town, new school. Shocking incident! Fantastical promise and a proposition. And so Kate agrees to a series of tests and the possible responsibility of replacing Persephone, of the Persephone myth.

Kate was not my favorite, so I had to work at ignoring her to get to the story. Turns out its Greek mythology veneer doesn’t go very deep. Disappointing. Another kicker was how it came together. Leading up to the fall equinox were just a series of incidents without any stor More...

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