Review of Kieran Scott's Complete Nothing
Release Date: September 30th, 2014
Synopsis as found on GoodReads.com:
True’s matchmaking skills are the stuff of legend! The second novel in Kieran Scott’s delightful teen romance series that TeenVogue.com called “the next Twilight.”
True is not exactly loving New Jersey. Banished from Mount Olympus and tasked with helping couples find love without using her powers, the goddess-formerly-known-as-Cupid is having a tough time. Especially now that True’s immortal love, Orion, has also appeared at her New Jersey high school—but with no memory of their relationship.
To distract herself from seeing Orion flirt with another girl, True focuses her efforts on making a match: Peter and Claudia. Peter is the star quarterback and the most popular guy in school. But he’s insecure about his future, so he preemptively dumps Claudia, his girlfriend. (If she won’t want to be with him later, why stay together now?) Claudia doesn’t take the breakup too well, and she’s ready to show the quarterback of their rival school just how ready she is to get over it.
But True sees something in these two seniors. She believes they should be together—but can she help them find their way back to each other (and get herself closer to home)? Or have things already spun too far out of control?
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This is the sequel to Only Everything, in which Kieran Scott rewrote the Greek Mythological story on the love story of Eros & Orion. In the first book, Eros & her mother, Aphrodite, are banished to Earth to live as mortals until Eros can match up three couple without the use of her powers, while Orion is kept on Olympus as a slave for Zeus. Neither had lived outside of Olympus in thousands of years, so the beginning was all about their woes & mishaps with modern society & technology. Eros is enrolled in school under the name True Olympia and there is where she sets out to find her first match of True Love. By the end of Only Everything, True has successfully matched her first True Love Coupling, but the book is ended on a cliffhanger when Orion shows up with no memory of Eros.
In the sequel, we are immediately thrown back into the story where we left off, with Eros/True being faced with her True Love... and yet he does not recognize her. This becomes a major plot point for the story in where Orion now has a family (obviously made by Zeus) & goes to True's High School, so she will see him every day. This becomes a minor distraction when she is trying to find her second match.
Lucky for her, when she joins the booster club to be closer to Orion, she meets 2 characters who were briefly in book 1, but did not leave a lasting impression on the reader, except as the girl whose scarf True steals in the beginning and her boyfriend. Now, she has a front row seat to the break up between star Quarterback, Peter, & his girlfriend, Claudia. True can see that they are a match, even if Peter no longer believes it & sets out to get them back together.
If you love Greek Mythology, you will enjoy this fun read. There is no major action in the plot, so I would not suggest this for fans of Percy Jackson, but if you enjoy a feel good Teen Romance, like Aimee Carter's The Goddess Test, Tera Lynn Childs' Oh My Gods, & for a younger reader, Joan Holub & Suzanne Williams' The Goddess Girls series.
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