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Complete Nothing (2014)

by Kieran Scott(Favorite Author)

4 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1442477229 (ISBN13: 9781442477223)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

series

True Love

review 1: While this book wasn't as good as the first, I liked it well enough. I think what kept me from liking this one as much as the first was the couple involved. I didn't like Claudia and Peter as much as I did Katrina and Charlie. More accurately, I didn't like Peter at all. Claudia was relatable and likable enough, but I found Peter to be a real jerk. He was pretty mean to Claudia and very selfish. My distaste for him started when he walked out of the dance studio after learning that Claudia had qualified for an audition with a prestigious dance school. Oh, poor Peter! He doesn't know what to do with his life after high school, so he can't possibly just be happy for the girl he's supposed to love when she succeeds. He did show some character growth toward the end, but I never... more really came to like him. Getting the negative parts out of the way...I liked the supporting characters, particularly Lauren and Wallace. Lauren was straight-forward and quite funny. I appreciate characters who cut through the crap. So many books are packed with characters who won't communicate clearly just so the drama and angst can go up to 11. It's refreshing when there's a character who doesn't deal in bull crap. And Wallace was really sweet. He thought Eros (still won't call her True) seemed cool and made a friendly gesture. He thought of others and was always willing to help people. And I liked that he and Eros became friends with zero romantic interest from either party. This one did improve over the first in one big aspect. I found the romance between Eros and Orion much more interesting this time around. In the first book, I usually skimmed over her memories of their love affair. For some reason, I just didn't care. Now I'm invested. And I really identified with Eros when she yelled: "Complete a sentence!" at Orion after he discovered she and Wallace were just friends. And now that Artemis and Apollo are going to get thrown into the mix, I'm anxiously waiting for the last book. One last plea.... Please, Ms. Scott, get Josh away from Vile Veronica! She's poison and he's actually a pretty great guy. He deserves better. 3.5 stars
review 2: Complete Nothing is the second book in the True Love series by Kieran Scott and it picks up immediately where book one left off. I found myself enjoying this book a bit more than the first one but it is mostly because I already had all the backstory and the book jumped right into Eros’/True’s challenge.Zeus had made things even more complicated for Eros/True by throwing Orion into the mix on Earth. If you recall, Orion is the reason Eros/True is on Earth and in order to be able to go back to Mount Olympus and save Orion from Zeus’ wrath, she needs to match three couples on Earth…without her powers. She has successfully matched one of the three and she only has two more to go. But now she has to match two more couples and also deal with the fact that Orion doesn’t know who she is and what they mean to each other. Just to make things even more worrisome, Hephaestus has heard that Artemis and Apollo are doing everything they can to get sent to Earth to get their revenge on Eros/True.As it happens, Peter, the quarterback of the Lake Carmody High football team, decides to break up with his girlfriend Claudia and getting them back together becomes True’s focus over the next week. One of the things that Scott does well is show the progression of the story from multiple characters’ points of view. We follow along with True to see how she is progressing but we also get to find out more about who Peter and Claudia are and what is really going on with them.I loved the introduction of Peter and Claudia and thought Scott did a great job of reflecting what it is like as a high school senior to not know what you really want to do with your life in Peter and then the exact opposite – knowing exactly what you want to do in Claudia. As we learn more about them, we also find out that their biggest issue right now is that they don’t really talk about all the changes that are coming. So instead of discussing the fears that he has, Peter lashes out and they end up saying things to each other that they immediately regret. As True is pulled into their world, another mistake happens. True assumes Peter is just being a normal teenage boy who wants to “sow his wild oats” before he goes away for college. If she had spent the time to dig into what was really going on with him instead of assuming what she did, she wouldn’t have encouraged Claudia to make him jealous and begin seeing a boy who Peter considers his nemesis – the quarterback of their crosstown rival, Keegan Traylor.I won’t go into all of the details here but the story follows these characters as they try to figure out how to either walk away or salvage what is left of their relationship. Both Peter and Claudia realize that they have made some mistakes but they are young and I found myself cheering them on just hoping they would figure everything out. I will mention that I loved the secondary characters in this book. Lauren, Gavin, Wallace all added to the story. Additionally, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, and Ares all added to the story and I found the twist that was introduced (which really threw True for a loop) interesting.If you are looking for a young adult story that includes mythology and a great story, definitely check this series out. The characters are well developed, the story is engaging, and I am looking forward to the next book in the series as I can see that things are about to get even more interesting for True.Thank you to the publisher for the review copy! less

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