A review by titusfortner
How to Talk to a Goddess by Emily Croy Barker

3.0

This book was a let-down. I was so excited for it, and it was missing a lot of the charm I found in the first book. The fight seemed arbitrary, the two Big Bads from book one were...

Spoiler

summarily dispatched as soon as they could have been essentially as plot device.

Is she a goddess? Is she not a goddess? What does Aruendiel know about all of it and why and how? It felt contrived, our protagonist seems to lack any agency that she possessed in the first book. I really wanted to like this and was so frustrated. Can't bring myself to give it 2 stars, though, so rounding up to 3.