Aiden's Quest For Apollo

by Tanvi Kesari Pasumarthy

One Prophecy. Four lives. Final prediction. Can the Gods land in danger? Can a mortal save the world? Aiden and his friends are on an adventure to save the Gods captured in the underworld by Hades, who is set to unleash the Titans and take over the world. Join the contemporary Greek heroes in action as they dodge and fight those monsters.

288 pages, Paperback

First published September 23, 2015

About the author

Tanvi is an author from India. She has been writing from the age of eight, and is an ardent book lover. Her first ever published book is "Aiden's Quest For Apollo." It has been published by Partridge, a Penguin India company. She is onto her next works and hopes to get better by the number.

Reviews

[Pallabi Dutta · Rating 1 out of 5]

*****I won a signed copy of this book through Goodreads Giveaway. The views expressed here are my own and unbiased.

I didn't liked the overall concept of the book. The story was not good. Now I will explain the story in a way which the author didn't manage to do in 300 pages worth of book.
But it was something everybody has already read a gazillion times. This book is a urban fantasy genre which is focused on Greek mythology and the four heroes and adventure. The summary of this novel is spot on. I don't have to explain anything but I will do so anyway. As the title name suggests, Aiden-the protagonist of the story-an 18 year your average awkward shy teenager who has recently graduated from high school and is ready to start college. He has a twin sister. Things don't go according to plan when he arrives at college and on the first night, he finds out he is Apollo or well as close to the version of the god Apollo. More like a miniature version in human form. On the first night he is attacked by a mythical creature but he is saved by his senior who turns out is Ares-the god of war and his twin sister Artemis and another girl who is Athena-god of wisdom. His memories of apollo are coming back slowly and only partially. His plan to finally make friends, a new start at college has backfired. Now he has to go on a quest to save the gods from the Titans who have imprisoned them. Thus, the quest begins. With so many twists and ups and downs. Will they prevail or will they fail? Love is also blooming in the air. What is to happens next?
This is authors first book. I would like to point out it is self published. And I sadly have to say, this is a person who had money to spend, and she chose to publish her books without any other soul working along side her. My note to the author is that please this book needs a lot and I mean a lot of editing and seriously a extra chapter or two to be added in the book so that the story could have been better told. The English language also needs a lot of work as it was filled with American English slang and as well as Indian English slang making the reader confuse.

I just didn't finish the book.

[Sarah-Jayne Briggs · Rating 2 out of 5]

(I received this book for free as part of Goodreads First Reads giveaways).

(This review may contain spoilers).

I would ideally give this book 2.5 stars out of 5. I really wanted to like it... but unfortunately, I felt that it needed quite a bit of editing. There were a lot of words that didn't fit and repetition that I felt didn't really work. ('Cloud room' was used three times in one paragraph, for instance).

The idea behind the book was really interesting, although I wouldn't have said the title fit with the storyline. I felt that things came far too easy for the characters. There was very little foreshadowing and I felt that there was too much telling rather than showing. For instance, Ares was supposed to be uttering really funny lines... but nothing that I read from him should have garnered those kinds of reactions from the others.

I did think that Aiden accepted the situation far too quickly. I would have liked some more details about how him and the other three related to the gods they were apparently avatars of. There was very little actual explanation in this book... and the characters seemed to have very little curiosity about what was going on.

It was good to see the other characters like Hermes and Dionysus in this book, though I didn't think they showed much of the personalities from the mythos. I would have liked to know more of Ares and Athena before the quest began. While it was good to see something of Ares beforehand, I didn't have a clue about Athena's life beforehand.

I did find myself getting quite confused about what was going on most of the time. I would have liked to see the characters have to work more for what was going on and for there to be less 'I had a bad feeling'... that then turns out to be accurate. I know there's instinct and all, but I didn't feel the characters were in any real danger... and even when they got hurt/made mistakes, it was all dealt with without any consequences or problems.

I won't be reading a sequel to this book as it stands.

[Alison Church]

I'm sorry but the English in this book was so bad that at time it was unreadable. I tried my best but I do think that the author needs some English lessons. The story line what I could read was much like other book of this genre so nothing original. Sorry really disliked this book