ALPHA GODDESS
By Amalie Howard
~Book Review~
*Minor spoilers*
A QUICK SKIM READ.
I was very excited about Alpha Goddess, a book featuring Hindu mythology, but despite
name-dropping a deity here and there, I’m not seeing the connections. I’m not
feeling the world come to life like I do in Rick Riodan’s Percy Jackson series.
The only character who was remotely interesting was Kyle, and even his plot line
felt surface level and juvenile. Still, he encountered some difficult ethical
situations here and there, and you kinda felt sorry for the guy.
Sera is the main
character, our typical vanilla heroine who starts having weird dreams and comes
to find out she is the reincarnation of the goddess Lakshmi, who has a unique
heritage that allows her to travel to all planes of existence, including
heaven/hell. As such, the demons of hell are out to use her for their plan to
invade heaven. Sera can shoot fire from her hands which is pretty cool.
However, that is
about all I was able to follow in the scattered, vague writing style before I
lost interest. I’ve read Karsten Knight’s Wildefire series which features
Ashline Wilde, a similar “normal” girl who discovers she is a reincarnation of
Pele, the volcano goddess, and unlike in this book, you actually believe it.
There is the volatility of Ashline’s temper, her extreme reactions, and her
daring to test the line between good and bad that makes things interesting and
absorbs you in the story. However, Sera was just kind of cookie-cutter and
never fleshed out. I never got a sense of the goddess she was supposed to be,
except that she was “good at everything.” Same goes for Dev, another god
reincarnated. The demons were your standard cackling evil baddies. I did like
Kyle, a prince of Hell, who suffered the most and had the most at stake.
When I walked away
from the story, I didn’t feel like I’d learned anything new about Hindu
mythology – there were a lot of different mythologies wrapped up in this story,
so if anything, I was a bit more confused. Sadly, I’ll have to continue my
search for the next young deities series to devour!
Recommend for fans
of: Karsten Knight, Kiersten White, Rachel Hawkins
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