The Goddess Inheritance is the final book in the Goddess Test trilogy.

I really liked the idea behind this story - Persephone and Hades's relationship but in a YA novel. At the time, it was kind of mind blowing for me. I was used to seeing vampire novels pop up everywhere, so this was a nice change.

So, that being said - let's look over the positives and negatives in this story. This MAY contain minor spoilers - so beware.

Positives:
1. This series had a really nice ending. I didn't feel like anything was left wide open and it wasn't an ending that destroyed me and made me hate Aimee Carter! Great job!!!

2. The cover is absolutely gorgeous! I like this series covers, so if you judge by covers this might be the series for you!

3. I really like Henry. I almost want a book just centered around a character like him and watch his character continue to grow. I felt like his character was WAY more likable than Kate, and we're following her story...

4. The side characters got more action in this book!! Gotta love when the author actually uses their side characters instead of throwing them away to focus on the main duo.

Negatives:
1. Man was this book SLOW. This whole series isn't the fastest paced or most addicting, but still book felt drawn out. This story felt like it could have been finished in two novels.

2. Kate is annoying, at least to me. I didn't find that her character developed enough over the three books, and she still felt just as whiny as the first novel. I kind of hoped for some wild character development in this book since the last book didn't have very much, so I was left disappointed. Perhaps she's almost...too flawed?

Overall, this book is a great romance YA novel. It's not super action-packed. It's definitely a good fit for the romance section. I need to read more by Aimee Carter soon, I just never seem to be able to have the time! At least it's nice to see her books pop up a LOT in my local book stores. She's always on the shelves!!

I definitely recommend this entire series to fans of YA, especially those who want a great romantic read!

Four out of five stars. ( )

This is the third, and last, book in The Goddess Test trilogy, and it didn't disappoint! I absolutely love everything about this series - the characters, the mythology, the plotline, everything! Aimee Carter is a goddess herself and I can't find anything to complain about with the conclusion to this amazing series. I recommend it to everyone who loves a YA book full of Greek mythology, fantasy and romance. A++++

5/5 stars.

*** I would like to thank NetGalley, Harlequin Teen, and Aimee Carter for the opportunity to read and review this book. ( )

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Plot: 4.5/5
If I’d reread the first two books before diving into this one, that would be a 5/5.
Anyways, here we pick up several months after book two left off, for obvious reasons. And then we go straight into this whole thing with politics/war/crazy, and shit went down and some peoples lives got threatened, and there was this knife that could kill everybody, and, man, it was EPIC.

Characters: 5/5
Ava: I really want to start with /Ava. There was a lot of stuff revolving around Ava in this book. Kate hated Ava for most of it. I understand where Kate was coming from with those emotions. She had perfectly reasonable reasons. But, you know, I think is one of those characters who just grew on me. Like, in the first book, I wasn’t sure about her. and then in the second book, I really liked her. and then, in this book, OMG, Ava. My heart was cracking down the middle. It was so emotional.
Henry: I still love him. I always will. To the ends of the earth. (See, Ava? This is me supporting you! As long as we love, Ava will not be… something.)
Cronus and Calliope: Douche bag and bitch. Actually, these guys were great antagonists. Their method and their plan, it made things real, you know?
Notice I’m not really saying anything about Kate. I just don’t know what to say about her. She was strong in a floppy kind of way, if that makes sense, which of course it doesn’t. And OMG, communication. These people need to work on it.
I kind of wish James had had a bigger role in this book too.

Romance: 3/5
I don’t feel like anything NEW happened in the romance in this book.
I know what you’re thinking: “But, Monica, they had a kid.”
And indeed they did. And there was some drama involving Cronus. Maybe I’d fee differently if I’d read the first two book more recently, but I feel the argument they have are the same, and the elements of their love are the same. And, in that way, nothing new happened. But I still like the romance.

2 extra credit points because of this genius thing I realized Aimee Carter did in this series.
Renaming the Gods.
By renaming Aphrodite Ava, she made her more likable.
By renaming Zeus Walter, she made him less formidable.
By renaming Hermes James, she made more relatable.
And by renaming Hades Henry she made him more lovable. I just don’t think I’d be able to say “I love Hades!” with the same zest I can when I say “I love Henry!”

Overall grade: 14.5/15

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One and a half stars--some of it was okay, but too much of it made me roll my eyes. Irritations started with the melodrama and existential angst, then devolved into the main character's motivations and even the setting descriptions.

(For the record, I gave up on page 106. When the main character began talking about the devastation to Athens and how there were no more skyscrapers, that was it. I couldn't take it anymore. Athens has some tall buildings, yes, but there was no mention of the hills around the city. The hills are far more attention-catching than the tall/commercial buildings. When my disgust grew to the point where I found myself questioning whether the author had even googled photos of Athens, I threw in the towel.)

The main emotional conflict is that the main character's newborn son is being held by the antagonist, Chronos. Chronos wants to take over/destroy the world, but that was supposed to feel secondary to the urgency the main character feels to get her son back.

The only problem with that was I didn't give two shakes about the baby. There was literally nothing about the baby, or the descriptions of the baby, or anything, that I cared about. The baby could have been made of cardboard for all I cared. I found it easier to care more about billions of faceless, abstract people than I did about one baby.

Beyond that, the melodrama was just too much. The main character blames herself for everything, then turns around and snaps at her BFF(s) for saying something similar. It's her fault Chronos escaped, it's her fault he wants to destroy the world, it's her fault he can't be defeated, etc. etc.

Woop-de-doo. Overall, I advise you to not bother with anything but the first book of the trilogy. That one, at least, was mostly enjoyable, but it was all downhill from there. ( )