Review of The Goddess Inheritance by Aimee Carter

Review of Aimee Carter's The Goddess Inheritance

Release Date: February 26th, 2013

Synopsis as found on GoodReads.com:

Love or life.
Henry or their child.
The end of her family or the end of the world.
Kate must choose.

During nine months of captivity, Kate Winters has survived a jealous goddess, a vengeful Titan and a pregnancy she never asked for. Now the Queen of the Gods wants her unborn child, and Kate can't stop her--until Cronus offers a deal.

In exchange for her loyalty and devotion, the King of the Titans will spare humanity and let Kate keep her child. Yet even if Kate agrees, he'll destroy Henry, her mother and the rest of the council. And if she refuses, Cronus will tear the world apart until every last god and mortal is dead.

With the fate of everyone she loves resting on her shoulders, Kate must do the impossible: find a way to defeat the most powerful being in existence, even if it costs her everything.

Even if it costs her eternity.

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It has been a few years since I read the book that came before this one in the Goddess Test series, so I played catch up, yet again, when trying to remember everything that happened up to this point. Kate has passed her trials and The Goddess Test, making her the official Goddess of the Underworld along side Henry (aka Hades). While in Tartarus, she was tricked into letting out the father of the Gods & King of the Titans, Cronus, and now all of the Gods are getting ready for war. Kate feels responsible and is going to look for Rhea, Queen of the Titans, but before she even leaves New York, is caught by Calliope (Hera). Unbeknownst to Kate, she is pregnant with Henry's child.

Flash forward to 9 months later... everyone thinks that Kate is searching for Rhea, so no one except for Cronus, Calliope, & Ava (Aphrodite) are even aware that she is not. Ava has been forced into helping Calliope, because she has kidnapped Ava's husband, Nicholas (Hephaestus) and is forcing him to create a weapon infused with the power of a Titan... the only power strong enough to kill a God. Cronus only wants to marry Kate and make her his Queen, because of the generosity she showed him. No one has been kind to him in millennia. Calliope has always wanted Henry and plans on keeping the unborn child.

This book centers on the final fight between the Gods & Cronus. There is plenty of action that will satisfy even those finicky readers. There are a lot of realizations and eye opening scenes, while the author is closing the door on this series. There are even a couple major character deaths.

If you enjoy books about Greek Mythology, you are sure to enjoy this series... just keep the diagram ready that is located in the back or front of every book in the series, because the name changes are sometimes a little confusing and hard to keep up with.