I have always loved stories that involve myth and The Goddess Test and Goddess Interrupted are fun. I’ve enjoyed this series very much! Book Two, Goddess Interrupted, was released this spring and it was a very exciting continuation of Kate’s adventures in the Underworld.
Here is a little bit about The Goddess Interrupted:
Goddess Interrupted
Author: Aimee Carter
Genre: Young Adult
Format: ebook
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Release Date: 3-27-12
After 6 months of living apart from Henry, Kate returns hoping to build on what she and Henry had. Instead of courtship, she finds the gods preparing for war against a terrifying power. Now Persephone is back in the picture and Kate must face her biggest fears and their common enemy.
You can read my review here.
The Goddess Test series website.
The Goddess Interrupted trailer.
Aimee Carter sat down with Harlequin and answered a few questions about this series –
How familiar were youwith Greek myths and folklore before writing the Goddess Test series? Was a lot of research required?
I first fell in love with Greek mythology when I was a kidlearning how to read, and my infatuation only grew from there. I’ve studiedvarious kinds of mythology for years, sometimes for class and always for fun,but even then I put a great deal of research into the Goddess Test series.Mostly as a refresher to make sure I was getting my facts right, but I alsoresearched the various myths looking for ways to tie the plots and characterstogether in unexpected ways.
You give the gods andgoddesses in the series “ordinary names” – Zeus is named Walter, Aphrodite goesby Ava, Hermes is named James. Why didyou do that and do the more contemporary names have any significance?
This was something I went back and forth on multipletimes. Initially the characters Kate encounters weren’t council members at all– I changed that very, very quickly though. By the second draft, I had a placefor each of the Olympians, and I did some heavy rewriting to replace my firstdraft characters with the gods. I wanted to find a way to keep their names thesame, but since they’re supposed to live among us in secret in the modernworld, it didn’t really make sense. How many men named Zeus do you know, orwomen called Aphrodite? On top of that, keeping the council’s identities secretwas incredibly important to the plot. So eventually I decided they would havechanged their names when Western civilization stopped worshipping them as gods,allowing them to live freely among us.
I did choose each name for what it means, some more thanothers – Walter, for instance, means “army leader”, while James means“supplanter”. The exception is Calliope, which in the story was chosen by hercounterpart for its Greek roots. The reason the gods changed their names – andwhy Artemis didn’t wind up with the name Diana – is explained throughout theseries, but you get to actually see this happen in The Goddess Legacy (July 31).
Kate finds herselftrying to work through her rather complicated relationship with James, as wellas her relationship with her new husband, Henry (Hades). Neither seems to be black and white, butrather varying shades of gray. Were anyof Kate’s feelings or situations based on any relationship struggles you’vebeen through?
Not personally, no, but I did try to make Kate’srelationships with the people in her life as realistic as possible. She isn’tperfect, and neither are they, and that’s something they all have to workthrough at varying points in the series. None of the relationships in the booksare based off of specific experiences I’ve been through though.
When is the next bookin the series due out? Any hints on what will happen in book 3?
Goddess Interrupted, the sequel to The Goddess Test, cameout in late March. The next book in the series, The Goddess Legacy, will be outJuly 31. It’s a collection of five novellas told in the perspectives ofCalliope, Ava, Persephone, James, and Henry, and together they form one story.
The third book in the series, The Goddess Inheritance, iscurrently scheduled to be released in March 2013. Unfortunately I can’t say toomuch about it, but the challenges that Kate will face are pretty clear by theend of the sequel!
The good people at Harlequin have offered up a copy of Goddess Interrupted to give away! Simply fill out the very simple rafflecopter form and that’s it!
You must be 13+ to enter. This giveaway is open to residents of the US and Canada only.
I want to read this series so badly. Thank you for the giveaway…
Jenea @ Books Live Forever
Can’t wait for more Henry!!! 🙂
I am looking forward to reading this book. Thanks.
thanks for a great giveaway!!
I loved The Goddess Test and still have yet to read the Goddess Interrupted.
This series is in my summer reading stack! Thanks for the interview and giveaway!
I just recently won Goddess Test in a giveaway 😀 Would love to have this one too! 🙂
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Thanks for the chance to win, I am looking forward to reading this book.
I would love to let this read inside my brain:)
Very excited to read this book 🙂 good luck everyone