Goddess Interrupted by Aimee Carter

I won’t lie, I couldn’t have remembered what happened in Goddess Interrupted if my life depended on it. And once I started it, I figured out why. It’s not that memorable until the end, which I actually remembered, but I put the events in the third book mentally.

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Kate is now immortal and Henry’s wife and has just returned from her six months on the surface ready to see her love and be crowned Queen of the Underworld. But Henry has other things on his mind, like the fact that Calliope has escaped from her capture and is helping Kronos to rise again. Right before Kate is crowned, Henry and the others from the original six gods are captured and being held hostage until Henry agrees to free Kronos. It is up to Kate, Ava, and James to get to where Kronos is kept and stop the world from falling apart. To do that though, they need help from the last person Kate wants to ask, her husbands first love and her sister, Persephone.

So the book starts really strong and ends really strong, but the middle is weak, and sadly that’s the longest part. The majority of the book, Kate is stressing about how Henry treated her in the moments before his capture and how that might mean he doesn’t love her but she really loves him and she doesn’t want to spend the rest of her life with a man pining over her sister. While I understand that that would suck a lot, there has to be something else that they can discuss on their way to find Persephone and then Kronos. It was like a really bad soap opera.

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I will give Kate this though: when Persephone kisses Henry in hopes of breaking this spell he’s been under for the last thousand years, I would have been pissed too. But unlike her, I wouldn’t have sat in my room and cried, I would have demanded answers right then and there. I know Persephone thought she was doing the right thing, and you eventually learn she did, but she went about it the wrong way. But, like Ava and Diana keep telling Kate, none of this will be solved if she doesn’t talk to Henry about any of her feelings. I know he’s a god, but he still makes mistakes. I’m pretty sure in the first book, Philip says something about gods making mistakes or something. Don’t quote me on that though.

The book ends on amazing cliffhanger though. Once the book started coming back to me and Calliope was caught, I vaguely remembered something about a pregnancy, but I couldn’t remember if it was that Kate was pregnant or couldn’t get pregnant, or I was combining it with the last Twilight book where Bella is pregnant because I’ve been considering reading those books again too, so the plot has been floating through my head. However, right after we learn that she’s pregnant, she is captured by Calliope because Ava set her up so she could get her husband back. I can’t imagine knowing your husband is being kept prisoner by a crazy person, but you don’t trade your best friend for your husband. You fight to get him back, but don’t put others at risk. There was no way Ava could have guaranteed her husbands safety. Ava is definitely a shitty friend.

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The book ended up being just so-so for me, but I do think that The Goddess Inheritance will be much better. However, before I read that, I need to read The Goddess Legacy, which is five novellas about Calliope, Ava, Persephone, James, and Henry. If I remember correctly, they don’t add plot, their just back story, so I could wait until after I read Inheritance, but I love back story and it will make the anticipation build.

Rating: 4/10
Author: Aimee Carter
Series: Goddess Test (Book 2 of 3)
Genres: Young Adult, Mythology, Fantasy
Dates Read: April 17-18, 2020