It's always been just Kate and her mom - and her mother is dying. Her last wish? To move back to her childhood home. So Kate's going to start at a new school with no friends, no other family and the fear that her mother won't live past the fall.
Then she meets Henry. Dark. Tortured. And mesmerizing. He claims to be Hades, god of the Underworld - and if she accepts his bargain, he'll keep her mother alive while Kate tries to pass seven tests.
Kate is sure he's crazy - until she sees him bring a girl back from the dead. Now saving her mother seems crazily possible. If she succeeds, she'll become Henry's future bride and a goddess.
If she fails...
How do I even begin to review this book? I downloaded it to my iPad in April but just finished it a few days ago. The story wasn't gripping enough for me to want to spend my day with Kate, her dying mother and Henry.
Also all the mythology is wrong.
That might have been what did it for me. I took Latin in high school and Greek mythology was taken very seriously. This book just glosses over all of it. If you know nothing about the myths then this probably won't be a big deal for you - but it really bothered me.
That being said I kept waiting for the seven tasks to present themselves and to see how Kate was going to overcome them. I waited, and waited, and waited. Then finally she gets a test!...It's a paper test, an exam from her tutor and she fails. But just kidding, that didn't matter. It was just to make sure she was paying attention. *insert frustration here*
We finally get to understand the tests at the end of the book (so at least there's no cliffhanger in that department) but they were so lame that all the build up was unnecessary.
So overall I will NOT be reading the next installment of the series - I can't justify spending time on a series where the main character whines the whole book just to get a happy ending. ugh
3 stars
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