The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter

Before I write this review, I am assuring you I have not fallen off the face of the earth or gone fully insane, its just the start of one of the two most important years of my life. GCSE's so I'm sorry if I don't Blog every week but I'll try.

It's always been just Kate and her mom—and her mother is dying. Her last wish? To move back to her childhood home. So Kate's going to start at a new school with no friends, no other family and the fear her mother won't live past the fall.Then she meets Henry. Dark. Tortured. And mesmerizing. He claims to be Hades, god of the Underworld—and if she accepts his bargain, he'll keep her mother alive while Kate tries to pass seven tests.
Kate is sure he's crazy—until she sees him bring a girl back from the dead. Now saving her mother seems crazily possible. If she succeeds, she'll become Henry's future bride, and a goddess.

This book was amazing. I know, it started off really sad, I mean really sad. You meet Kate in a tough place, her mother is dying and she knows it. She would do anything to save her, she's looked after her since she was diagnosed with cancer and she knows no other life than without her mother. She moves to Eden for her mothers last wish. At first she gets on the bad side of a girl at school which leads her to meet Henry.
Kates character is incrediblyh loyal to her mother, she would do anything to keep her alive and live with her another day. She doesn't want anyones help in caring for her mother and she hates going to school and leaving her mother with the day nurse. At first when she is living with Henry, she apprehensive to start with but she gets used to it and finally likes it.
So all in all, read this book!

Easy A

Summary by Sony Pictures:
After a little white lie about losing her virginity gets out, a clean cut high school girl sees her life paralleling Hester Prynne's in "The Scarlet Letter," which she is currently studying in school - until she decides to use the rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing.

Director: Will Gluck
Olive: Emma Stone
Woodchuck Todd: Penn Badgley
Marianne: Amanda Bynes
Brandon: Dan Byrd






Review:
There is only one word to describe this film: Hilarious. This is a chick flick, and I know, I like Vampires and Bloodsucking and all that and thats why I ran down the halls of my school shouting, 'I'm a Vampire' at the top of my voice two Christmases ago (that is why people think I am a freak, but I like it) but I'm quite partial to the occasional (Okay, frequent) Romantic Teen Comedies. Especially ones that are modern retellings of classics (Clueless and 10 Things I Hate About You, to name a few). But they have to work and in my opinion, this did work, perfectly, it told a story of a girl who just wanted to blend in and was thrust into the lime light of her school when she "lost her virginity" (I stress the quotation marks very seriously) and had to deal with the whole school calling her a slut. So she does what they tell her, she pretends to be a slut, even though she really isn't, in the process, losing her best friend, breaking a marriage up and falling in love with the one person who believes and has done since she was in eighth grade.
The character of Olive is a strong character, she doesn't mind blending into the background and she jokes about it, when she is thrust into the limelight by Marianne - a religious popular girl - she is instantly noticed and is not liking the attention she is getting from a lie, but she deals with it and conforms to what they are calling her, adding a red A to all her clothing, like in the Scarlet Letter. She is quite a compassiononate character, always trying to help those who are upset, namely the boys she pretends to have sex with for Gift Vouchers. You see her at her most vulnerable at the end of the film, when everything goes wrong and her lie becomes too much. And I think that was good, because I know I wouldn't have had the strength to do that while everyone hated me.
So, all in all an A for Easy A (cheesy I know but thats what everyone needs, a bit of cheese for their day) and a definite must see people. Even people who like Vampire, you need a little sunlight once in a while. :-)