Review: Great Book
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 25, 2012
***NOTE MY REVIEWS OFTEN CONTAIN SPOILERS***Kate Winters, the new Queen of the Underworld, is enjoying her first six month vacation in Greece.  That is until James drags her out in the woods where she meets Casey and Lux, twins where one is mortal and the other immortal who're on the run from the council.  They've made more than one enemy on the council - they scorned Ava and she cursed them to always love the same woman.  They escaped the Underworld and made an enemy of Henry and for reasons no one can explain Walter cursed them to an eternity apart.  Now Kate's involved and she can't let these twins be treated this way because it isn't right.  But the Council has found them because of Kate's presence and she's now forced to take them all on for the sake of what's right.  But will they listen to a newly made goddess when their pride stands in the way?My main issue with this story was the point of view changes.  Half of the story was in the first person and the other half in the third.  Since every other chapter gave us different character's points of view Carter moved to the third person for those scene, but back to the first anytime we were with Kate.  Personally I feel if she wanted to do so many other characters points of view she should have done the entire novella in a close third person.  I felt the way this was done was a little distracting.  If it hadn't been for that I would have given this a five stars.  It's well written, fast paced and interesting.  We encounter familiar characters, meet new ones and get a better idea of what Kate has in store for her when she takes her rightful place on the council.The character development in this novella was excellent, though Carter did rely on some previous characterization for characters like Ella and Ava we were given a more in depth view of Henry, James and Walter (who definitely needed it).  Carter also does an excellent job of building her new characters of Lux and Casey, you felt for the twins in the same way Kate did.While she does do a little telling most of the novella is showing which is a big improvement over the debut novel in this series and promises an even better novel to come with the improvements between the last novel and this novella.Overall I'd definitely recommend this Goddess Test short story, I think it's a great addition to the series and was a highly enjoyable read.