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I love Greek mythology so when I read the synopsis of this book I knew I needed to check it out.
M. W. Muse tells the story of a girl named Legacy, whose life is changed the minute her guardian tells her the truth about her parents and what is going to happen to her when she turns.
She does not believe her at first until she starts having strange dreams,
I give this book,moons, and I look forward to the second book, I hope I find out a little bit more about Legacy and what is happening to her, Adin, and River.
For some reason, I have strong feelings for River more than I do Adin, I am not sure why though, Maybe it is because I feel terrible for him,
You will have to read this book to find out why and come up with your assumptions and who you like best.
DNF Great storyline. Something for people that are fascinated with Greek Mythology to enjoy This book could have been awesome except it wasn't! I have to say I had to force myself to finish reading it, because I hate letting things unfinished and I was expecting something, anything to happen, it didn't.
It started "nicely", a girl on her seventeenth birthday discovers that she is to be a goddess and ascent on herth birthday aka she has a year to prepare, which I would call total parental failure.
Yes, this is just one more book where the parents hide their child any knowledge about who they are/are supposed to be for "protection".
In this book it goes as far as the said parents abandoning their daughter as a baby to a guardian who is as useless at preparing her for what she is about to face as they are.
Said guardian can't say anything before consulting with others I guess the real mother but in the end says nothing at all.
Ok, that's done for the bad parenting, now let's get into the real stuff,
If you were to believe that you are to be a Greek mythology related goddess what would be the first thing you do Well, I know I'll be on my computer googling or at the library crossing references.
But I guess that's just personal preference because Legacy spends most of her time with her rich and perfect friend, preparing to date with her perfect looking boyfriend.
There is a great length of description of every details about the outfit and make up and even more about the blushing, the heart racing, and every little touch and thought about touch between her and said boyfriend for pages and pages.
A little bit is ok but after a while it becomes quite disgusting,
I'm all for having normal live still going on, you can't bang your head on the problem all the time but maybe looking at it once in a while and thinking might have helped.
The characters have no interests what so ever about anything except Legacy's problems, They are all over her and rush at her first discomfort to be near her and be supportive, Because they are not only rich and beautiful and perfect but they are such great persons, I'm not convinced. It's also super easy to read them because they just have to look at each other to know everything that's wrong with the others.
Great, can't keep a single thought for yourself maybe developing a mind reading power isn't even a necessity,
The only character who was not shallow and seemed to have some interest out of Legacy is her best friend Calli but even that was a very surface part of the story because every attention when Calli did something remotely interesting came back to Legacy.
And seriously I have no idea why Calli was even Legacy's best friend seeing how bitchy Legacy could be, she would have been better of with Karen and Ellen at least they wouldn't have been so disapproving and judgmental.
Of course, there is a love triangle, I'm not even sure I want to get into that too much because falling in love with a long term childhood friend, I can understand but having a guy, also gorgeous falling for you in a split second because he knows of a prophecy and playing with his feelings because you need his help is not really my cup of tea.
Especially that her best friend was crushing on the guy but no, Legacy had to keep the attention for herself, obviously.
I feel sorry for River, really he would better be of dating Calli,
So what is
it about the Greek mythology and Legacy ascending Well, not much, I mean everybody on the planet probably knows more about the Greek gods than Legacy.
I mean, she is right in the middle of it all, she doesn't know anything the poor girl can't link Venus to Aphrodite before anyone spell it out for her, won't do any research by herself she checked once instead she prefers to have people tell her the truth, "please please you have to tell me, I want to know".
If you are distracted while reading, don't fear because most everything is repeated three times, Even if the character who confides in Legacy tell her that she should keep it a secret she will repeat it to everyone until everyone knows.
And of course Legacy trust everything everyone tells her because despite having Medusa and Hades as enemies, well everyone around is her to protect her and do everything for her own good even when they withdraw important information which could get her kill obviously.
And by the way the said enemy could just be Legacy being paranoid because we really don't see much of them.
We are also very lucky that everything happens in chronological order because the time frame and days are all over the place.
Seriously don't try to figure out what day it is because you can be on Thursday have three days passing but you are still on Friday only.
There were also some other inconsistencies, especially about Adin's story, The guy is a liar, liar once always a liar but seriously I'd rather have River get with Calli than Legacy, duh!
And a lot of pronouns were totally off, like Adin using "her" instead of "my" in dialogue and Legacy saying "she" instead of "I".
If you want some very graphic romance where people are taking it slow, you might give this one a try.
If you expect anything else, get a different book, This is my honest review in exchange for the free kindle copy of Goddess Legacy
So in short Goddess Legacy is basicly a retelling of a Greek Myth .
It's a neat little package of love and mystery,
. What I didn't like so much
So what I didn't like where the characters, by themselves they are OK kind ofdimensional and transparent but I guess you could say that they have admirable traits.
. . mabye too admirable. They have pretty much perfect personalities execept for a bit of stubborness and temper here and there, The thing that I disliked the most was the character interactions, the romance didn't quite feel believable or plausible, I didn't really care for the love triangle, it wasn't bad but wasn't all that great in my opinion, A thing I noticed was unatural conversation and to me at times it sounded a bit robotic or rehearsed, not in the moment, you know what I mean
"I know.
I understand how you feel, and I'll agree to not working at the store and to taking other steps necessary for my safety.
"
Whatst century gal says that, and yes she is in love with him and would do anything for him but who says that Is there no sense of your own capibility You can take care of yourself Legacy!
I think that I am being really picky.
Sorry.
What I liked
The thing I like most about Goddess Legacy is the plot excluding the love triangle.
I really liked how Ms, Muse changed the myth and created a haze of mystery around it so you had to kind of connect the dots and pick out the clues.
I very happy with her adaption of 'said myth' so far, It was great how you had to try and match characters to their godly entity,
Ohhh and the cliffe at the end just suprised me, I am embarrassed to say I didn't seee it coming.
Overall I didn't like Goddess Legacy but I didn't hate it either, If you like Greek Mythology, love triangles, and romance then this might be for you, I'm a huge fan Greek mythology and thus a huge fan of books about Greek myths/gods and goddesses, Unfortunately this book is geared towards those who have little to no knowledge of Greek myths OR their gods and goddesses.
Because the main character is practically the only one who lacks the aforementioned knowledge, any characters she meets that have any ties to said myths are spelled out.
This was frustrating because I was able to put clues together so much faster/earlier than Legacy was told about them.
The biggest concern for me though was the POV/narration, The author was attempting ard person POV but ended up with some truly awkward sentences, combined with the serious overuse of the pronoun 'she'.
Here are a few examples:
"Calli and she stood, . . "
"They talked about her date with Zach and her dates with Adin, . . "
Calli went on a date with Zach and Legacy went on dates with Adin
"Adin and she, . . "
There were also a few editing errors missing spaces and missing punctuation, but in the overall scheme of things, just the writing needs to be fixed.
Although I liked the chemistry between Legacy and Adin, and I thought the love triangle was believable, I didn't connect to any of the characters.
I also didn't think the speech patterns were realistic, They're teenagers in thest century, using cell phones, lap tops, etc and yet they all pretty much speak likeyear olds very proper, few contractions, no slang.
With editing this book has a lot of potential, I thought the general storyline was interesting how gods and goddesses can essentially recreate other gods/goddesses either linearly or laterally, though the explanations could have been more clear.
The romance between Legacy and Adin was written in detail, from every little gesture to literally explaining how they feel about each other though the wrapping of Legacy's hands around Adin's neck got a bit repetitive IMHO.
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