The Goddess Legacy (Goddess Test #2.5) by Aimee Carter → Start Date: May 19, 2013

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

This is the inbetween book of 2 and 3 in the The Goddess Test series!

Please join Kathy and I if you can!

[Kathy]

I can't wait for this one, I'm hoping to get a better perspective from all the other characters. :)

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

lol You read for this one tomorrow??!!? :D

or do we need to reschedule?

[Kathy]

I don't know, I really don't want to. Maybe we should, would you mind if we did? :)

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

I'm good either way. Maybe just a day or 2? would that help?

[Kathy]

Sunday 5/19 that ok?

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

perfect! :D I'll change it!

[Kathy]

Thanks Trisha! :)

[Kathy]

I'll be starting this in a few minutes. :)

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

me too!!
now this is broken into stories right? maybe read one of the stories and then come back?

[Kathy]

Yes!! That's what I was thinking too! lol :)

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

Finished story one: Goddess Queen

wow, that was crazy. I guess I don't know enough about Mythology to know if this is accurate or not....but

(view spoiler)[ it all just seems so crazy. all those power plays... And Zeus...jeez, keep it in your pants you crazy man! LOL! SO many kids! :D (hide spoiler)]

Hades though(view spoiler)[ when he told her he was going to marry Persephone. My heart broke a little. (hide spoiler)]

and then when Persephone (view spoiler)[ was so excited they might overthrow Zeus and she wouldn't have to marry Hades... (hide spoiler)] I was so sad...because we know how that story goes, right?! :(

Hades (view spoiler)[ he's so sweet and gentle. I wish we saw more of this side of him in the books. Where did this gentle man go? :( (hide spoiler)]

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

okay, finished story 2: The Lovestruck Goddess

wow, the story of Aphrodite.

eek, I wouldn't want her choice! lol

[Kathy]

Of finished Goddess Queen

I wondered if (view spoiler)[ Hades was in love with Hera in the beginning, but because he is soooooooo self-sacrificing did he give her up and go to the underworld because he knew he was best suited for it and he wouldn't let her go with him because she wouldn't be happy there. Because the happiness is an illusion...unless you're dead of course.

And then over time he saw how Zeus had broken her...because that is exactly what he did, he used her up until there was nothing left. He played her like he plays his children...and yeah he needs to weld the zipper shut already!! Or do you think her always just loved her like a doting brother? I don't know maybe I'm over thinking it. lol :) (hide spoiler)]

Yeah Hades (view spoiler)[ was way nicer this time, but that was before he married Persephone so maybe it was her...or her leaving him...that made him jaded, hardened him? (hide spoiler)]

Hera (view spoiler)[ She's not innocent in this though. She's so controlling, she wanted the power just as much as Zeus did and all she did getting into that argument with him in the beginning right after the war was bait him. He saw her as a prize to be won, he saw how strong she was and he wanted to break her from that first moment and she was so blinded by what she wanted it clouded her judgement and that was her downfall. (hide spoiler)]

I don't know that much either, but I'm sure the author took some liberties or at least I wouldn't be surprised. I do love the different POVs though, it's interesting to see the decisions they made that shaped who they became in the books #1 and #2.

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

Man, 1st spoiler.
that is a really good point. I wondered why he stayed under ground.
I think maybe he always knew he couldn't/wouldn't make Hera happy. But I also wonder if he waited for her instead. he let Zeus have a chance and stayed away - but she could have gone down there too. She could have chose him......she didn't UNTIL Zeus had destroyed her.
Maybe he just always knew she could love him if only.... ya know?? He thought he just wasn't quite enough to keep her happy either.

wasn't Hades sweet. He was so gentle. My heart skipped a beat or two when he held Hera's face and told her he wouldn't betray her marriage vows because that wasn't her. And no matter what, he wouldn't let her change who she was. Ugh, so so so sweet. Where is this guy in our books! LOL!

I hope we see this in The Goddess Inheritance but I guess we have seen it a little. In his gentle handling and distance - respecting he's not sure she wants to be there. But honestly, ugh! I want to see more of Hades in the last book.

My favorite moment of ALL these books is STILL the hot chocolate scene in book one :) but I hated when he was so mad and awful after (even though we understand more of they why later in the books...because of Persephone)

[Kathy]

Trisha wrote: "Man, 1st spoiler.
that is a really good point. I wondered why he stayed under ground.
I think maybe he always knew he couldn't/wouldn't make Hera happy. But I also wonder if he waited for her inste..."

Yes, I think that was my favorite too. And I did love that he wouldn't let her forsake her vows and I can only hope that he's that sweet and gentle in book #3, especially with the baby!! :D

It's hard to say what his affection for her was exactly because it could go either way.

I'm almost done with The Lovestruck Goddess.

[Kathy]

Ok finished The Lovestruck Goddess

Ok (view spoiler)[ When Zeus and Aphrodite were trying to justify not being monogamous It actually turned my stomach. And I wanted Hephaestus to fight for her, not agree to share her, but he's lover not a fighter so it wasn't going to happen. (hide spoiler)] But yeah I wouldn't want that choice either.

Eros was so cute! Making flower chains and looking for shells! lol :)

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

Ugh, it turned my stomach too. I just .....I couldn't. I'm just built to be a one guy kind of girl. And now that I'm older, I agree with what her dad said. That kind of intense "burn down the world" kind of love - it doesn't last.

I'm so sad they are going to share her...just...ugh.

Eros was adorable! But wow, these women while holding their babies and freaking out and scaring them! I was nervous for the infants in every story! Jeez!

[Kathy]

Trisha wrote: "Ugh, it turned my stomach too. I just .....I couldn't. I'm just built to be a one guy kind of girl. And now that I'm older, I agree with what her dad said. That kind of intense "burn down the world..."

I know I was thinking the same thing, I mean it's no wonder why Ares turned out the way he did. He's so angry, ok he's the god of war, but the way Hera was so furious with Zeus it was like her fury seeped into Ares while she was holding him and yelling at Zeus.

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

Goddess of the Under- world

oh gah. I don't want to read ANY MORE Persephone.
I think part one and two are pretty well summed up with this quote

(view spoiler)[“You’re selfish, Persephone. You’re the most selfish person I’ve ever met. You hurt Demeter. You hurt Hermes. You hurt Hades so badly that he’s nothing more than a ghost of who he was before you ripped his heart out and fed it to the dogs. You hurt people again and again, and the worst part about it is that you don’t care. You can claim to love Adonis all you want, but he’ll never have all of you. And one day, you’re going to hurt him the way you’ve hurt everyone else in your life, and I won’t let that happen.”

(hide spoiler)]

boo! reading her two parts were painful. She's so selfish I could hardly readit!

ugh, and there's a part three.
I can't get done with her part quick enough :(

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

lol it was so bad, I downloaded book 1 from my library and just reread the two hotchocolate parts :) just for something happier....

[Kathy]

LOL Trisha!! Yes! It was soooooooooo bad! I thought I hated her in but I really can't stand her now. She was a whinny, selfish brat, but Aphrodite was no better and Demeter! She told Persephone that she would visit her in the underworld but she never did.

I do feel that they should have had the wedding when she was older at least. And telling her that she would wed him from the time she understood what marriage meant, they doomed them from the beginning.

Also I guess we now know why Demeter and Hades was so afraid that if they were doing the right thing. I always wondered why they were hesitant or reluctant in letting her choose to stay with him and make her own decisions.

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

yes, I understand their reluctance so much more. I even understand Hades' hesitation to let her in at all. Persephone is just sooooo awful. She even knows she's selfish and she just...can't seem to stop doing horrible things.

well, glad that's over

On to God of Thieves

[Kathy]

I wanted to ask you about when happened in Goddess Interrupted when Persephone crawled in his lap and kissed him and Kate saw the whole thing. Did she do that to prove to him that she still didn't love him because there wasn't any feeling there? I can't remember what he told Kate about that, also I thought that Persephone was so different then too. She seemed more confident I guess. but she would be I guess because she's older? I don't know, I just thought she was really different in book #2, still a selfish brat but different.

[Inger]

Yep, she wanted to proof to him that they both didn't feel anything during that kiss..a bit confusing but hey I don't mind the drama :D
By the way how do you two like it so far? I loved the different stories :)

Just read the spoiler when you finished the book
(view spoiler)[ And I thought I would actually be in Henry's head though in the end the personal perspective didn't surprise me...supporting the whole mystery guy thing he's got going :D (hide spoiler)]

[Kathy]

The first 2 were good, I liked seeing a different perspective for Hera and Aphrodite, but it still didn't change my opinion of them. For me it only shed some light on situations that happened in books #1 and #2 just like in Persephone's story.

The one I really want to read is the last one God of Darkness, I'm hoping it will give us a glimpse of what's going on with him after he finds out about Kate at the end of book #2 and leading into !! I'm so anxious for that book! :)

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

Kathy wrote: "I wanted to ask you about when happened in Goddess Interrupted when Persephone crawled in his lap and kissed him and Kate saw the whole thing. Did she do that to prove to him that she still didn't ..."

Ugh! That was the worst part of the last book.
I cried, that was so horrible for Kate to go through!

Yes, Persephone ends up telling Kate that, had she stuck around, she would have seen that both Henry & she agreed that that kiss and who Persephone was...was not what he remembered. At least that's what I got out of it - Persephone telling Kate that she was forcing Henry to realize that kissing her wasn't like kissing Kate. That he was still hung up on a girl that never existed (and a love that was not true).

I know! I can't wait for God of Darkness!

I'm in the middle of God of Thieves and I kind of don't want to hear James' side (after he tricked her and left with Kate in 1.5 and made Henry believe they might be "together" when they were away all summer :[ ) I was so mad at him for that.....

[Kathy]

Me too! I'm almost done with God of Thieves and I'm and so far I feel like the others it's shedding some light on his character, but that's whole point I think. And I haven't read The Goddess Hunt but I remember that he did make Henry think that they were together during the summer and I was sooooo mad!

I can't wait for book #3!! :)

[Kathy]

ok finished God of Thieves

I liked it because it told why they had different names and how they came up with them. I liked Tuck and the boys, I'm surprised...just a little...that Hades refused Hermes request. Not the letting him see her part...that I'm not surprised...the not giving her the pendant part and I wanted to know what the story was behind the pendant. I suspect it was Tuck's mother's and the earl wanted only because it would be a bane to Tuck, she would hate it so much and he would revel in it. I was sad that she died, and cursing the earl like that was pretty funny.

I'll probably read God of Darkness tomorrow cause I need to started on some other books, :)

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

I was surprised he didn't let James see Tuck. I was floored. I mean, I guess it makes sense, but it shifts a little, my view of Hades.

I hope the next story reveals more about Henry/Hades.
*sigh* I'm so ready...

I'm finishing this today only because I have so many going! LOL! :D

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

OMG Kathy!!!

The last part!!! The last...like, 10 pages!!! OMG!!!!!!!

OMGOMGOMGOGGOMGOMGOG!!!! I can't wait until you read this

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

OMG The Picture (view spoiler)[ her present!!! HE WAS THERE THAT DAY! HE TOOK THE PHOTO!! Do you remember, in book 1 when they give each other presents - she gives him a blanket and he gives her the picture of her and her mom at the park at the birthday party (she talked about the frosting...) awwwwwwww this is so wonderful! (hide spoiler)]

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

wow, I'm done

let me know when you are and we can discuss the last story *sigh* I loved it!

[Kathy]

AWWWW! That was so sweet!! I didn't remember until, but you reminded me! Oh I love God of Darkness! I love to see from the guy's POV when he sees the girl for the first time or at a moment when he sees her differently than he has before, that is my favorite moment in a book!

And he let Hermes see Tuck!! He is so sweet and kind, and I can not believe after he let him see her and then he goes makes Hades think that him and Kate had something going on in the summer!

I can not wait to read The Goddess Inheritance! I wonder whose POV it will be from.

I saw a little bit of your post for God of Darkness and I had to finish it tonight! lol :)

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

lol Yay! I'm so glad you loved it!

I know, I can't believe James tricked him after Henry let him see Tuck :( makes me so sad....

I'm so read for The Goddess Inheritance!!!
I can't wait! I've been so good and I haven't read any reviews or anything on it so nothing is revealed before I read it!!!

[Kathy]

I know! It's so hard not to do that, like trying not to watch every single trailer and promo for my latest book made into a movie! lol :)