Author: Aimee Carter
Series: The Goddess Test (Book 3)
Genre: Contemporary, Paranormal, Romance, Adventure Teen and Young Adult
Length: 384 pages
Publisher: Mira Ink
Date of Publication: 26th of February 2013
*** WARNING THIS POST MAY CONTAIN UNINTENTIONAL SPOILERS***
Synopsis
Love or life.
Henry or their child.The end of her family or the end of the world.
Kate must choose.
During nine months of captivity, Kate Winters has survived a jealous goddess, a vengeful Titan and a pregnancy she never asked for. Now the Queen of the Gods wants her unborn child, and Kate can't stop her--until Cronus offers a deal.
In exchange for her loyalty and devotion, the King of the Titans will spare humanity and let Kate keep her child. Yet even if Kate agrees, he'll destroy Henry, her mother and the rest of the council. And if she refuses, Cronus will tear the world apart until every last god and mortal is dead.
Even if it costs her eternity.
Review
The Goddess Inheritance is the last of The Goddess Test series, preceded by The Goddess Test (Book 1), Goddess Interrupted (Book 2) and the novellas The Goddess Hunt (Book 1.5) and The Goddess Legacy (Book 2.5). And it has got to be one of my most anticipated finales of this year!!
I have absolutely loved every step of this series, and without unquestionable doubt as far as I was concerned the pressure was on for Aimee Carter to provide me with an ending worthy of this wonderful and gripping series.
I was not in the least disappointed.
Goddess Inheritance picks up 9 months down the line from when we left Kate. 9 vital months. Enough time to grow a tiny little immortal being inside of her. Enough time for her to develop those maternal instincts that will make her fight with everything she has to protect what she loves the most: her baby and Henry.
I cannot say more without fear of ruining it for you dear readers, but know that it was absolutely and utterly heart wrenching from page 1 to page 384. I simply could not put it down and read it in 5 hours flat.
Before I gush any further I must make a small but important point. For me a trilogy or series has several key features. An enticing story and plot is obviously one of them, and is often what most authors focus on, at the expense of their characters' growth and development. Now this does not mean that the trilogy/series is not a good by any means, but on some level it does deduct some of the potential it could have had.
To me The Goddess Test trilogy had everything from wonderful pacing and narration style, great storyline and twists, and an obvious and marked character development that didn't only effect the immediate main characters, but also the secondary ones and the minor roles. We went from an insecure Kate attempting to pass tests to be with Henry, find out who she is and become a goddess (Book 1), to someone who slowly learns to come to grips with what being a goddess and queen of the underworld entails (Book 2), to a fully fledged immortal who knows who she is, what she wants and how to damn well fight for it. The evolution of Kate and Henry was beautiful and Goddess Inheritance only further adds to it, showing old facets and quirks, and new ones.
But Aimee Carter did more than just help the characters grow and mature. As they did so she escalated the difficulties and obstacles ahead of them, making them more complex and raising the stakes at each turn. And the twists? They got harder to determine the further I went.
The Goddess Test has proved to be a read that was like meeting someone new and making a new friend. Weird analogy? Let me explain then. In Book 1 I met everyone and became acquainted, but as the their simple straightforward paths grew in complexity, meandered and crossed each other I slowly got closer and further into their lives until by the end my nose wasn't stuck to the pages... I was actually in there right beside them. Feeling their pain, love, happiness and saddness.
The Goddess Inheritance was a wonderful final instalment to this trilogy. Filled with heart rendering and wrenching moments, that I think I may honestly need to see a cardiologist now. The plot thickened and twisted as all the pieces of the puzzle finally came together moved around on a slippery chessboard by players who's true identity is only revealed at the end. And all this is narrated to you with wonderful pacing, and simple but yet perfectly depicting language.
I will be very sad to see these characters go about their lives no longer in the pages of a book I can read, but the story feels complete and it feels right.
Aimee Carter has done an amazing job on all fronts when it comes to The Goddess Test. Every character has found what feels like his/her rightful placement and ending, and every loose end has been tied.
This is a series that has secured itself a firm place in both my digital library on my kindle and in my physical library on the shelves in my sitting room. This most certainly is a set of books that I will return to over and over again.
If you liked this and would like to remain in the realm of Greek Gods then perhaps take a look at Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini. I would also like to make another few recommendations that, although have nothing to do with Greek Gods, I do believe you may very well enjoy: Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare, Die for Me by Amy Plum, Inescapable by Amy Bartol and Existence by Abbi Glines.
I was not in the least disappointed.
Goddess Inheritance picks up 9 months down the line from when we left Kate. 9 vital months. Enough time to grow a tiny little immortal being inside of her. Enough time for her to develop those maternal instincts that will make her fight with everything she has to protect what she loves the most: her baby and Henry.
I cannot say more without fear of ruining it for you dear readers, but know that it was absolutely and utterly heart wrenching from page 1 to page 384. I simply could not put it down and read it in 5 hours flat.
Before I gush any further I must make a small but important point. For me a trilogy or series has several key features. An enticing story and plot is obviously one of them, and is often what most authors focus on, at the expense of their characters' growth and development. Now this does not mean that the trilogy/series is not a good by any means, but on some level it does deduct some of the potential it could have had.
To me The Goddess Test trilogy had everything from wonderful pacing and narration style, great storyline and twists, and an obvious and marked character development that didn't only effect the immediate main characters, but also the secondary ones and the minor roles. We went from an insecure Kate attempting to pass tests to be with Henry, find out who she is and become a goddess (Book 1), to someone who slowly learns to come to grips with what being a goddess and queen of the underworld entails (Book 2), to a fully fledged immortal who knows who she is, what she wants and how to damn well fight for it. The evolution of Kate and Henry was beautiful and Goddess Inheritance only further adds to it, showing old facets and quirks, and new ones.
But Aimee Carter did more than just help the characters grow and mature. As they did so she escalated the difficulties and obstacles ahead of them, making them more complex and raising the stakes at each turn. And the twists? They got harder to determine the further I went.
The Goddess Test has proved to be a read that was like meeting someone new and making a new friend. Weird analogy? Let me explain then. In Book 1 I met everyone and became acquainted, but as the their simple straightforward paths grew in complexity, meandered and crossed each other I slowly got closer and further into their lives until by the end my nose wasn't stuck to the pages... I was actually in there right beside them. Feeling their pain, love, happiness and saddness.
The Goddess Inheritance was a wonderful final instalment to this trilogy. Filled with heart rendering and wrenching moments, that I think I may honestly need to see a cardiologist now. The plot thickened and twisted as all the pieces of the puzzle finally came together moved around on a slippery chessboard by players who's true identity is only revealed at the end. And all this is narrated to you with wonderful pacing, and simple but yet perfectly depicting language.
I will be very sad to see these characters go about their lives no longer in the pages of a book I can read, but the story feels complete and it feels right.
Aimee Carter has done an amazing job on all fronts when it comes to The Goddess Test. Every character has found what feels like his/her rightful placement and ending, and every loose end has been tied.
This is a series that has secured itself a firm place in both my digital library on my kindle and in my physical library on the shelves in my sitting room. This most certainly is a set of books that I will return to over and over again.
If you liked this and would like to remain in the realm of Greek Gods then perhaps take a look at Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini. I would also like to make another few recommendations that, although have nothing to do with Greek Gods, I do believe you may very well enjoy: Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare, Die for Me by Amy Plum, Inescapable by Amy Bartol and Existence by Abbi Glines.
A big thank you to Harlequin and Mira Ink for providing me with a copy of the finale to this wonderfully heart wrenching series