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emilyjewett 's review for:
The Goddess Test
by Aimée Carter
2.5 but rounding up to 3 because im kind. okay. so after work i was horribly bored and burned out and my eyes hurt from screens so I decided to randomly reread this book from the shelf of my childhood bedroom because I loved it deeply when I was 12 years old and I was also interested to see how YA has grown and changed from when books had “find us on Facebook!” earnestly printed on the back. i’m trying to be kind and remember that my child self loved this book and other people of that emotional and intellectual age would also probably like it. but Jesus Christ. My gripes are as follows: no real romantic tension/build up, vague setting and character description, the repeated use of “sloppy” or “noisy” to describe kisses, and a seemingly fundamental lack of understanding of any level of Greek mythology beyond what one can find on google. for 12 year olds, it’s fine, which is why I’m giving it 2.5-3 stars (I feel it would be wrong to hold a YA book especially from the early 2010s to the standards of the genre and adult fiction of today).