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Goddess Test #1-3
Goddess Test / Goddess Interrupted / The Goddess Legacy / The Goddess Inheritance
All four titles of the Goddess Test novels in one exciting collection!
The complete GODDESS TEST saga—THE GODDESS TEST, GODDESS INTERRUPTED, THE GODDESS INHERITANCE and THE GODDESS LEGACY. Kate Winters had gone from a girl whose mother was dying to the Queen of the Underworld. Join Kate on her life-altering journey and meet the powerful, compelling gods who test her every step of the way.
Bonus!
Includes a signed poster of THE GODDESS TEST.
The complete GODDESS TEST saga—THE GODDESS TEST, GODDESS INTERRUPTED, THE GODDESS INHERITANCE and THE GODDESS LEGACY. Kate Winters had gone from a girl whose mother was dying to the Queen of the Underworld. Join Kate on her life-altering journey and meet the powerful, compelling gods who test her every step of the way.
Bonus!
Includes a signed poster of THE GODDESS TEST.
1312 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2013
About the author
Aimee Carter
44 books4,865 followersAimée Carter is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the author of over a dozen books, including The Goddess Test series, the Blackcoat Rebellion series, and the Simon Thorn series for middle grade readers, now a #1 international bestselling series under the title Animox. Her newest middle grade book, Curse of the Phoenix, will be released in June from Margaret K. McElderry Books.
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June 10, 2013
...you know i've said i loved a lot of books, but this one is the series I'd pick out to re-read and have if i could only pick one series...and it's been that way for a year. That's a big deal. READ IT
June 1, 2013
I LOVED IT!
October 3, 2014
I won this series through the Goodreads First Read Giveaway on 09/24/2013!
July 30, 2013
Very addicting series. I Loved it!!!
February 16, 2026
Justice for Hera / Calliope
Review of the Goddess Test Series by Aimée Carter
Includes: 1 — The Goddess Test; 1.5 — The Goddess Hunt; 2 — Goddess Interrupted; 2.5 — The Goddess Legacy; 3 — The Goddess Inheritance.
What stayed with me most about this series was the sense of injustice in how the story is told and in who ultimately pays the price.
Hera/Calliope is not perfect, and I do not place her on a pedestal. She makes mistakes and questionable decisions. But she is the only character who truly tried to change an unjust system for millennia, largely alone, without support, and repeatedly betrayed. For most of the series, she is framed simply as a villain, and when the story finally reveals what she endured and what she was fighting against, especially in books 1.5 and 2.5, it is already too late for a fair reassessment.
Kate appears as a contrast: young, protected, and supported by everyone. Yet she is also a product of the same flawed system. She was shaped from childhood to become Henry’s wife, raised to fulfill a predetermined role without real space to form an independent identity. I would have preferred the story to remain grounded in the idea that both she and her mother were born human and became involved in an extraordinary situation later. But the moment the narrative establishes that her conception was planned so she would become the future wife of her sister’s ex-husband, that is where the grooming begins — and it makes everything profoundly unsettling.
The level of control is alarming: even physical traits like her freckles appear to have been chosen because Henry liked freckles on her sister. In other words, her identity was designed before birth to please a specific man. Her entire life was structured around fulfilling his preferences.
This reminds me of Madame Lady Danbury’s statement (in the TV series inspired by the Bridgerton books by Julia Quinn), when she explains that she was promised to her husband as a child and grew up without knowing who she was outside the role she had to perform to please him. She says she did not know her favorite color or how to exist independently of him. I see something very similar in Kate’s case: her preferences, behaviors, and even physical traits appear to have been shaped to satisfy someone else’s expectations.
From a psychological perspective, this reflects severe manipulation and emotional abuse. At 19, Kate has never questioned who her father is. She has no real friends, and when her mother, Henry, and James are busy, she has no one; the only people around her are part of the grooming. Her mother feigns illness to manipulate her, leaving her completely isolated. The result is a person whose personality has been deliberately manufactured.
Because of this, the story’s premise shifts from drama into psychological horror. It is not merely a controlling upbringing but a deliberate project of identity formation designed to serve another person. No one respects her, and no one tells her who her father is — she has to discover it herself. And the connection to her sister’s former husband makes the situation even more disturbing.
Kate’s characterization reinforces this pattern. She has no friends, no independent life, and no real choices. She was prepared from childhood for a predetermined destiny, which reinforces her emotional dependence and social isolation.
The order of revelations weakens the story’s impact. Readers spend most of the narrative seeing the victim as the villain without understanding the full scope of the conflict. When the complete picture appears, there is no narrative space left for a fair reevaluation.
Ultimately, what affected me most was the fate of the female characters. Hera, who wanted real change, is destroyed. Kate is born to fulfill a role and inherits the same system that crushed the woman before her. They could have been allies, but the narrative places them in opposition.
I believe I read this series around 2012/2013, as I added it to my Skoob shelf in 2012.
Review of the Goddess Test Series by Aimée Carter
Includes: 1 — The Goddess Test; 1.5 — The Goddess Hunt; 2 — Goddess Interrupted; 2.5 — The Goddess Legacy; 3 — The Goddess Inheritance.
What stayed with me most about this series was the sense of injustice in how the story is told and in who ultimately pays the price.
Hera/Calliope is not perfect, and I do not place her on a pedestal. She makes mistakes and questionable decisions. But she is the only character who truly tried to change an unjust system for millennia, largely alone, without support, and repeatedly betrayed. For most of the series, she is framed simply as a villain, and when the story finally reveals what she endured and what she was fighting against, especially in books 1.5 and 2.5, it is already too late for a fair reassessment.
Kate appears as a contrast: young, protected, and supported by everyone. Yet she is also a product of the same flawed system. She was shaped from childhood to become Henry’s wife, raised to fulfill a predetermined role without real space to form an independent identity. I would have preferred the story to remain grounded in the idea that both she and her mother were born human and became involved in an extraordinary situation later. But the moment the narrative establishes that her conception was planned so she would become the future wife of her sister’s ex-husband, that is where the grooming begins — and it makes everything profoundly unsettling.
The level of control is alarming: even physical traits like her freckles appear to have been chosen because Henry liked freckles on her sister. In other words, her identity was designed before birth to please a specific man. Her entire life was structured around fulfilling his preferences.
This reminds me of Madame Lady Danbury’s statement (in the TV series inspired by the Bridgerton books by Julia Quinn), when she explains that she was promised to her husband as a child and grew up without knowing who she was outside the role she had to perform to please him. She says she did not know her favorite color or how to exist independently of him. I see something very similar in Kate’s case: her preferences, behaviors, and even physical traits appear to have been shaped to satisfy someone else’s expectations.
From a psychological perspective, this reflects severe manipulation and emotional abuse. At 19, Kate has never questioned who her father is. She has no real friends, and when her mother, Henry, and James are busy, she has no one; the only people around her are part of the grooming. Her mother feigns illness to manipulate her, leaving her completely isolated. The result is a person whose personality has been deliberately manufactured.
Because of this, the story’s premise shifts from drama into psychological horror. It is not merely a controlling upbringing but a deliberate project of identity formation designed to serve another person. No one respects her, and no one tells her who her father is — she has to discover it herself. And the connection to her sister’s former husband makes the situation even more disturbing.
Kate’s characterization reinforces this pattern. She has no friends, no independent life, and no real choices. She was prepared from childhood for a predetermined destiny, which reinforces her emotional dependence and social isolation.
The order of revelations weakens the story’s impact. Readers spend most of the narrative seeing the victim as the villain without understanding the full scope of the conflict. When the complete picture appears, there is no narrative space left for a fair reevaluation.
Ultimately, what affected me most was the fate of the female characters. Hera, who wanted real change, is destroyed. Kate is born to fulfill a role and inherits the same system that crushed the woman before her. They could have been allies, but the narrative places them in opposition.
I believe I read this series around 2012/2013, as I added it to my Skoob shelf in 2012.
January 29, 2021
Goddess interrupted: Kate Winters se ha ganado la inmortalidad.
Pero si ella quiere una vida junto a Henry en el Inframundo, tendrá que luchar para conseguirlo.
Volverse inmortal no se suponía que fuese la parte fácil. Aunque Kate estáa punto de ser coronada Reina del Inframundo, está tan aislada como siempre. Y a pesar de su creciente amor por Henry, el soberano del Inframundo, él se está volviendo más distante y reservado. Entonces, en medio de la coronación de Kate, Henry es secuestrado por el único ser lo bastante poderoso para matarlo: el Rey de los Titanes.
Mientras los otros dioses se preparan para una guerra que podría acabar con todos ellos, es responsabilidad de Kate salvar a Henry de las profundidades del Tártaro. Pero para explorar las interminables cavernas del Inframundo, Kate debe contar con la ayuda de la persona que es la mayor amenaza para su futuro.
La primera esposa de Henry, Perséfone.
The Goddess Legacy: Por milenios sólo hemos atrapado atisbos de las vidas y los amores de los dioses y diosas del Olimpo. Ahora Aimée Carter nos revela cómo ellos se convirtieron en los poderosos, mezquinos, cariñosos y peligrosos inmortales que Kate Winters conoce.
The Goddess Inheritance: Durante nueve meses captiva, Kate Winters ha sobrevivido a una diosa celosa, un Titan vengativo y un embarazo que no pidió. Ahora la Reina de los Dioses quiere ese bebe que no ha nacido aún, y Kate no puede detenerla, hasta que Cronos le ofrece un trato.
En intercambio a su lealtad y devoción, el Rey de los Titanes le perdonara la vida a los humanos y la dejara quedarse con su hijo. Y si Kate acepta, Él destruirá a Henry, a su madre y al consulado. Y si ella se niega, Cronos destruirá el mundo hasta que el último dios y mortal este muerto.
Con el destino de todos los que ama en sus hombros, Kate tiene que hacer lo imposible: encontrar una manera de derrotar al ser más poderoso que existe incluso si le cuesta todo lo que posee.
Incluso si le cuesta su eternidad.
Los último libros de la saga me gustaron mucho pero sintió que perdieron fuerza a medida que avanzó la historia, la guerra me pareció tan rápida y tan "fácil", como de estrellitas no épica, algo como lo que me pasó con el último de Crepúsculo. De igual forma es una historia que tuve un buen final, la evolución de los personajes y que por fin se pudiera arreglar todo para que Henry fuera por fin feliz.
Pero si ella quiere una vida junto a Henry en el Inframundo, tendrá que luchar para conseguirlo.
Volverse inmortal no se suponía que fuese la parte fácil. Aunque Kate estáa punto de ser coronada Reina del Inframundo, está tan aislada como siempre. Y a pesar de su creciente amor por Henry, el soberano del Inframundo, él se está volviendo más distante y reservado. Entonces, en medio de la coronación de Kate, Henry es secuestrado por el único ser lo bastante poderoso para matarlo: el Rey de los Titanes.
Mientras los otros dioses se preparan para una guerra que podría acabar con todos ellos, es responsabilidad de Kate salvar a Henry de las profundidades del Tártaro. Pero para explorar las interminables cavernas del Inframundo, Kate debe contar con la ayuda de la persona que es la mayor amenaza para su futuro.
La primera esposa de Henry, Perséfone.
The Goddess Legacy: Por milenios sólo hemos atrapado atisbos de las vidas y los amores de los dioses y diosas del Olimpo. Ahora Aimée Carter nos revela cómo ellos se convirtieron en los poderosos, mezquinos, cariñosos y peligrosos inmortales que Kate Winters conoce.
The Goddess Inheritance: Durante nueve meses captiva, Kate Winters ha sobrevivido a una diosa celosa, un Titan vengativo y un embarazo que no pidió. Ahora la Reina de los Dioses quiere ese bebe que no ha nacido aún, y Kate no puede detenerla, hasta que Cronos le ofrece un trato.
En intercambio a su lealtad y devoción, el Rey de los Titanes le perdonara la vida a los humanos y la dejara quedarse con su hijo. Y si Kate acepta, Él destruirá a Henry, a su madre y al consulado. Y si ella se niega, Cronos destruirá el mundo hasta que el último dios y mortal este muerto.
Con el destino de todos los que ama en sus hombros, Kate tiene que hacer lo imposible: encontrar una manera de derrotar al ser más poderoso que existe incluso si le cuesta todo lo que posee.
Incluso si le cuesta su eternidad.
Los último libros de la saga me gustaron mucho pero sintió que perdieron fuerza a medida que avanzó la historia, la guerra me pareció tan rápida y tan "fácil", como de estrellitas no épica, algo como lo que me pasó con el último de Crepúsculo. De igual forma es una historia que tuve un buen final, la evolución de los personajes y que por fin se pudiera arreglar todo para que Henry fuera por fin feliz.
September 16, 2017
This series started me on the path to Greek mythology fiction books. I absolutely love the story and I have read her black coat rebellion series as well. She is a truly gifted writer. I recommend this series and this author to anyone.
April 14, 2021
overall this series was really creative!! I just thought the story dragged on towards the end though
March 14, 2023
An enjoyable story that helps those who may be struggling with anxiety of death or losing a loved ones. I have reread many times and the story is full of hope and enjoyable characters.
November 25, 2013
*I received this boxed set through a giveaway from Goodreads.
I have to say that I loved this series. It was a new take on the Persephone Hades myths. Not just the myths surrounding their marriage, but what happens after. The story of Henry and Kate is emotional and bumpy at best, but so worth it. I loved watching the two of them work through their insecurities to find each other. The story included jealousy, adultery, love, and mortal danger. What more could you want from a book series?
At the end of the trilogy, my first thought was, "There has to be more!" What happens to James? How do they find replacements for the goddesses who've faded or been removed from the council? I have so many questions!!!
The Goddess Legacy answers so many questions about the timeline before Goddess Test begins. So much character development and plot points have led the gods to the point where Henry and Kate's story begins. I loved seeing the pre-Kate council. It answered so many questions!
In all, I loved this series. It was well written; the plot was well thought out and engrossing. My favorite part about the series is that I can feel comfortable having my advanced reader 11 year-old read the story too. So many books are written for her reading level but well above her emotional level. Amiee Carter found that happy place where the two meet and gave me a wonderful series to share with my daughter.
I have to say that I loved this series. It was a new take on the Persephone Hades myths. Not just the myths surrounding their marriage, but what happens after. The story of Henry and Kate is emotional and bumpy at best, but so worth it. I loved watching the two of them work through their insecurities to find each other. The story included jealousy, adultery, love, and mortal danger. What more could you want from a book series?
At the end of the trilogy, my first thought was, "There has to be more!" What happens to James? How do they find replacements for the goddesses who've faded or been removed from the council? I have so many questions!!!
The Goddess Legacy answers so many questions about the timeline before Goddess Test begins. So much character development and plot points have led the gods to the point where Henry and Kate's story begins. I loved seeing the pre-Kate council. It answered so many questions!
In all, I loved this series. It was well written; the plot was well thought out and engrossing. My favorite part about the series is that I can feel comfortable having my advanced reader 11 year-old read the story too. So many books are written for her reading level but well above her emotional level. Amiee Carter found that happy place where the two meet and gave me a wonderful series to share with my daughter.
October 29, 2015
In the book "The Goddess Test" you could find yourself in a whirl of emotions for each character. In my opinion, "The Goddess Test" is a book that is like a mix of mystery, comedy, and romance. It is a little bit informal though with the fact of it having some Greek Myths added into it. I personally love this book. It made me have loads of emotions. I was happy a lot, and laughed a little bit, there came a point in the book where I was just a little bit upset but thats okay. "The Goddess Test" is about a girl in high school, her life was going good up until her mother got ill, now that she knows whats going to happen to her mother she has to move somewhere for her mother. She is upset not knowing how long her mother has left but all of that starts to not matter as much when she meets Henery, the boy who has a very interesting claim as to who he is. I would happily hand this book over to another person who is in the 8th grade or higher. On a scale of 1-10 id have to rade it an 8.5-9. I loved how funny it got and how the characters feelings, in a way, connected with my feelings. With all of the funny parts, the happy parts, the shocking parts, and even one or two of the sad parts. It hit each and every feels that ive had while reading this amazing book! If your wanting to read this book, are you up to this challenge? Find out if your willing to read "The Goddess Test."
January 17, 2015
I cannot express how much I adore Aimee Carter and love this series! I finished reading all 4 in a span of 2 days and I am completely satisfied on how it ended. Every book series seem hard to finish on a high note and even popular ones suffer due to the author's desire to please their readers and instead make everything a happily ever after when every story does not have to endure literary breakdown when it isn't meant to. I am glad the Goddess series ended with enough of a punch to conclude and tie what's left.
May 17, 2015
MY FAVORITE BOOK
Pro:
Real emotion
Fantasy and mythology, yet realistic
New perspective that is appealing
Multidimensional relationships that arnt just physical attraction
(I loved Henry and Kate together)
Con;
I don't have any valid reasons except perhaps that after so many possible brides died I was getting bored.
Pro:
Real emotion
Fantasy and mythology, yet realistic
New perspective that is appealing
Multidimensional relationships that arnt just physical attraction
(I loved Henry and Kate together)
Con;
I don't have any valid reasons except perhaps that after so many possible brides died I was getting bored.
December 30, 2024
This is the series that got me into reading. I read it about a decade ago, i must re-read the entire series.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 8, 2015
The integration of the Greek gods into a modern romance is a nice veer away from the normal paranormal romances.
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August 30, 2013review pending
September 14, 2013
OMG. Best book ever.
December 10, 2013
Amazing books. Went through them very quickly. And while Kate seemed whiney in the second book, it isn't unbelievable of why she's so upset. I'll definitely read these again.
January 2, 2014
This is a great series I totally recommend it make sure to put it on your to-read list
September 11, 2016
Loved this series so much that I bought them for my own personal library!.
May 24, 2015
amazing books i was hooked right from the start
November 7, 2015
Love this series.
November 27, 2016
I loved this series I just wish it would said more about what happens later on!!
December 20, 2016
Loved this series! I couldn't put them down and I was sad to finish them!
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