For millennia we've caught only glimpses of the lives and loves of the gods and goddesses on Olympus. Now Aimée Carter pulls back the curtain on how they became the powerful, petty, loving and dangerous immortals that Kate Winters knows.
Calliope/Hera represented constancy and yet had a husband who never matched her faithfulness....
Ava/Aphrodite was the goddess of love and yet commitment was a totally different deal....
Persephone was urged to marry one man, yet longed for another....
James/Hermes loved to make trouble for others - but never knew true loss before....
Henry/Hades's solitary existence had grown too wearisome to continue. But meeting Kate Winters gave him a new hope....
Five original novellas of love, loss and longing and the will to survive throughout the ages.
Contents:
The Goddess Queen
The Lovestruck Goddess
Goddess of the Underworld
God of Thieves
God of Darkness
The Goddess Queen
The Lovestruck Goddess
Goddess of the Underworld
God of Thieves
God of Darkness
REVIEW:
I'm not really a fan for book with multiple stories in them, but this book was different. The stories tell the back ground from each important character from the goddess test series.
Hera/Calliope's story was probably one of the two stories in this book that I didn't like so much. It wasn't because the story was bad, no it was really great. It was because the character was so angry and frustrated and hurt. Reading from Calliope/hera's point of view made me hate her even more, it shows that Hera/Calliope has always been the way she was when she was introduced in the goddess test after confessing that she murdered all thos girls. Calliope had something good in her, a way of thinking and reasoning that the other olympians didn't have. And I get that it's horrible finding out that your so-called devoted husband has been cheating on you with several women, but it happened and she can't change it, no ones life goes as planned.
Aphrodite/Ava's story was a lovely one explaining how Aphrodite thinks and loves. At the same time you get Hephaestus's back ground and how Aphrodite/Ava's life went before the goddess test.
Persephone's story was probably my least favorite story out of the 5. Persephone is very self centered, I get that she tried to love Hades but she fought it to much and hurt Hades badly allong the way. She should have raised her voice before getting married, that way they would have avoided a lot of trouble.
Hermes/James has alway had a special place with me, I like him and reading how he became who he is now was very interesting. It was a sad story at the end but it didn't stay that way. This was certainly my favorite story.
Hades/Henry's story was a story about how the search for a "new persephone" went. The details and feelings how Hades/Henry felt them, behind his nutral mask. I loved Ingrid the moment she ws introduced in the series and the short story we get in this book only made it better. Henry's first encounter with Kate when she was seven was so sweet that I almost laughed out loud.
I give it 4 roses
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