Kate Winters has won immortality. But if she wants a life with Henry in the Underworld, she'll have to fight for it.
Becoming immortal wasn't supposed to be the easy part. Though Kate is about to be crowned Queen of the Underworld, she's as isolated as ever. And despite her growing love for Henry, ruler of the Underworld, he's becoming ever more distant and secretive. Then, in the midst of Kate's coronation, Henry is abducted by the only being powerful enough to kill him: the King of the Titans. As the other gods prepare for a war that could end them all, it is up to Kate to save Henry from the depths of Tartarus. But in order to navigate the endless caverns of the Underworld, Kate must enlist the help of the one person whom she would really rather not meet. Henry's first wife, Persephone.
The Goddess Test ended with Kate about to go on an adventure with her friend James (Hermes) who is in love with her during her time above ground and away from her husband, Henry (Hades). Goddess Interrupted picks up after Kate's six months abroad and with her return to the Underworld. But just when she thinks settling into her new life will be simple, Kate has to deal with her husband acting all cold, then being kidnapped by the one thing that can kill him (Cronus), Calliope (Hera) the sociopath from the previous book escaping her punishment, and the only person who can help Kate is Persephone, Henry's first love who abandoned him, and Kate's sister from thousands of years ago who she never met. She, James, and Ava (Aphrodite) venture into the Underworld to find Persephone, and go on an adventure that felt more like an emotional quest than an actual quest.
Somehow this book managed to delete the entire relationship from the previous book and take Kate and Henry back to square one. Henry's head is messed up in ways Kate (and I) can't even try to understand, so I'll try not to complain about him. Or any of the other annoying characters (like all of them). Also, why couldn't they have their Greek names? It would have made my reading experience a lot simpler, as I wouldn't have to keep turning to the back to see who each character was. Also, what was the deal with Ava being married and in love with Nicholas all of a sudden? I get that she's Aphrodite, goddess of love, so it's in her job description to be unfaithful and that Nicholas doesn't mind but that relationship wasn't even alluded to in The Goddess Test. And her choice at the end (literally, the last three pages) was very extreme for a relationship that there is almost no evidence for.
I did like the Persephone storyline though. In The Goddess Test, Persephone was practically a character, even though she never appeared, because Kate was her replacement and felt as such. Kate's feelings of being the second choice were carried over very well and dealt with nicely, especially in her dealings with Persephone. My favorite scene was the one where during their travels through the Underworld, Persephone comforts Kate. In this scene Persephone seemed less like a selfish narcissistic brat and more like an older sister, which turned this otherwise one-sided character into a round one.
5 stars.
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