Reviews

An Accidental Goddess by Linnea Sinclair

saidahgilbert's review

3.0

2nd reading: It didn't quite hold up compared to when I first read it 6 years ago. My tolerance for romance has decreased and the science fiction parts were barely window dressing to the romance. It didn't help that it used romance tropes that have gone out of fashion in terms of telling a compelling romance- miscommunication, secrets and lies.

rf121's review

3.0

Not really my cup of tea. Listened to the audiobook. The narrator mispronounces some naval/nautical terms, which makes you think you're listening to a cheap high school production.

hybum's review

adventurous slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

mica_amy's review

3.0

This book gets 3 stars because the initial concept was cool. The romance part was dumb and terrible and ruined what otherwise was a usable plot/good characters. I may have missed the point.

thinde's review

4.0

It's been years since I read this book and not a lot stuck with me. I do recall trying pretty hard to find the (non-existant) sequel so, that's a good sign.

xishimmerix's review

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

amyiw's review

5.0

What if you woke up over three centuries into the future and the battle in which you sacrificed yourself has become legend and turned you into a Goddess? Your people are much more advanced but not Gods or Goddesses and at the time, the people knew this. Now... you are seeing old pictures of yourself at temples and a whole dogma follows with sayings that you, and your AI set in motion. Luckily no one recognizes you because the picture is old and the hair cut wrong. You are not supposed to alter the less advanced society's belief system. So you leave it alone. But you can help them against advanced societies like your from coming and subjugating the less advanced. That is what you did over 300 years ago, and now... you might have to do it again. But how with out destroying the beliefs of a whole society? Well you tell a lot of lies, trying to keep as close to the truth as possible. This doesn't work so well when you become close to so many people on the space port, especially the Admiral. The Admiral being a devoted to his religion but not fanatical, might understand, but can he be told anything, some, all? Especially when telling him might change the way he looks at you as a normal person?

I really liked the scifi romance. There were really good reasons for Gillie to keep her identity hidden. This is plot point in a lot of romances but in this case it was quite different. It still had the drawing out of the truth at one point that went a little further than I would have liked but the resolution, I thought was quite good. I'll definitely go to the other books of hers that are stand alones.


Updates

Just started in it and am finding it quite fun.

Spoiler

60% as soon as he finds out what she is, she should tell him who she is. I understand her worry of him seeing her differently but he is going to see her differently. So she should tell him to let him diagnosis the whole and not give him little lies by little lies, or little truths by little truths.

thereadingbel's review

3.0

Captain Gillaine Davre wakes up from a coma three hundred and forty two years in the future and discovers that she has been made into a goddess by the Khalaran people. Now she is on an unknown space station, without a clue as to how she got there. She decides to keep her true identity a secret as she figures out how to get her ship back in working order and on her way. Meanwhile, she has the attention of Rynan "Mack" Makarian, admiral in the Khalaran fleet. Mack has suspicions that the strange woman may be a smuggler and that all he is hearing is lies but he can't deny his attraction to her.

The story was not to bad it kept me engaged. I thought it was more of a magical based book that took place in space. Not like your normal sci-fy book and for that made the story better. I would rate it a 3.5 stars but not quite a 4 star.

lesemensch's review

4.0

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codexmendoza's review

3.0

Basically all you really need to know about this book is that the main character time travels to the future and finds out that in the time she's been gone, the people she had been helping turned her into SPACE JESUS.

The rest of the book is pretty much exactly what the cover promises. I will say there's some pretty dramatic purple prose in the middle though.