Goddess Summoning 7: Goddess of Legend

Goddess Summoning 7: Goddess of Legend by P.C. Cast

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I think I may like the ones where the myths are the background players to the time crosses more oddly enough. This one touches on the story of King Arthur. Kind of would have preferred finding a way for her to stay there and let history play out, but still glad that at least the reincarnation is reunited - even if the shared names and hobbies is a little eerie. As always, the differences in science vs. magic and language barriers is amusing as well. Fish out of water anyone?

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Goddess Summoning 6: Warrior Rising

Goddess Summoning 6: Warrior Rising by P.C. Cast

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Though this is part of the Goddess Summoning series, and Athena does find love in this book, that is not the main romance. Rather it's between two mortal girls who are pulled back in time to save Achilles and, as a result, his cousin as well. If you thought the gods of myths were the only ones who liked to meddle and change history, you'd be wrong. This book weaves the story of three very meddlesome goddesses. While the subtext and the mythology is the same in this story, it's sort of refreshing to have the main characters both be mortals rather than one being a god/goddess shocking their new love interest with their unnatural powers. Either way, it's still a romance based on a re-written myth.

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Goddess Summoning 5: Goddess of Love

Goddess Summoning 5: Goddess of Love by P.C. Cast

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


This story is sort of a two-in-one as both Vulcan and Venus find their matches. It always seems to take the aid of another for the situation to work out satisfactory, but the end result is still a happy love story with a joyful conclusion. Interesting that Vulcan's limp follows him back into the mortal world. On the other hand, his experience due to that limp was what made him Pea's perfect match to begin with.

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Goddess Summoning 2: Goddess of Spring

Goddess Summoning 2: Goddess of Spring by P.C. Cast

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


It's a nice twist the way Cast weaves old mythology in with a modern day romance. This is definitely set in the modern day as well, with references to cell phones and 9/11. Lina is easy to like with her determination and way with animals. Being an animal lover myself, I found it adorable the way Orion and Cerebus were with her. Hades was rather complex and foolish on multiple occasions, but you also had to know he'd come around given the themes for this series. She's lucky Orion didn't knock her right off her skates towards the end, which is a rather amusing picture on it's own. Overall, a very enjoyable addition to the series.

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Goddess Summoning 4: Goddess of the Rose

Goddess Summoning 4: Goddess of the Rose by P.C. Cast

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


This series just keeps getting better and better. Mikki unwittingly learns she's a priestess, meets a goddess, falls in love with the one being in the realm everyone seems to think it's impossible to love, and unwittingly finds a way to save the realm eternally so not only can her predecessor finally find peace, but she can have the future she wants with her love as the new goddess of the rose. There's more than one way to love a beast.

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Goddess Summoning 3: Goddess of Light

Goddess Summoning 3: Goddess of Light by P.C. Cast

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


While I liked the main character better in Goddess of the Sea, overall I enjoyed the characters and storyline of this book much better. Since I only bought the two used copies Powell's had for the series as I wasn't sure how into them I'd be, as well as noting they seemed to be more stand alone stories from the back covers, I forgot to see where in the series this one takes place. As turns out, even with each story focusing on different gods/goddesses, they do reference the previous books. At first it was confusing, but they eventually spell out the story from the one I missed enough that it makes sense. Now I'm hoping that this doesn't spoil trying to read that book for me. Other than that, this one was a much faster and more enjoyable read with good characters and a mostly good time all around. A little bittersweet, but that's just love isn't it.

God of Light, Apollo, feels like something in missing in his life. Little does he know he'll find it in Las Vegas when Bacchus manipulates an invocation to snare the golden twins. Who knew helping his sister break the bonds would find him his soul mate. Now if only Bacchus would stop meddling so he didn't have to literally save her soul to keep her.

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Goddess Summoning 1: Goddess of the Sea

Goddess Summoning 1: Goddess of the Sea by P.C. Cast

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


This book was very difficult to get into. At first I did not like it at all and was wondering if this would be the first book in years that I put down and didn't finish. The story did pick up though and more elements were woven in to the tale that made the mythological factors come to life. If you like Greek mythology, you'll love this little mermaids tale. If you're very much Christian and can't stand anyone looking down on the religion though, you'll probably want to burn it as the monks that give her shelter are not painted in a very positive light. More jailers than saviors, it takes a good long while into the book before anyone warms up to the girl or any positive contrasts are brought to light.

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