Aphrodite's Sister Book 1

The Goddess of Emotion

By: Kelly Balch

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Petra Ambrosi feels what everyone feels—every joy, every bruise, every lie. In a world that rewards numbness, her gift is a dangerous kind of truth. When a trail of uncanny coincidences pulls her into a hidden war, Petra uncovers a secret older than myth: someone is bending fate to their will. To survive, she must remember who she was, claim what she is, and decide what her power is for—healing or dominion.

The Goddess of Emotion fuses Greek legend with a contemporary pulse—equal parts intimate love story and slow-burn mystery-thriller. Found family gathers around her—artists, mystics, and skeptics—while a forbidden attraction ignites and a rival order hunts the one weapon they can’t command: compassion.

Lush, cinematic, and defiantly human, this first installment of the Aphrodite’s Sister trilogy asks a radical question: what if empathy is not weakness, but the strongest magic in the world? Press play and step through the veil—where every feeling matters, and every choice could change the gods.

©2009 Kelly Balch (P)2025 Kelly Balch

Amazing

Loved! I can't wait for the next one! I love the Greek God mythology. I finished this book too fast!

Don’t do it!

This book was absolutely infuriating. I have never read something so simplistic and yet, at the same time, so difficult to understand.

It seemed as though there were sentences missing or parts left out. It was like it was poorly translated from another language and thereby stripped of comprehensible nuance. I was so confused throughout the entire book and annoyed at the lack of substance and depth of the characters.

There were descriptions that were beautiful and poetic, but they were attached to things that lacked any understandable framework. It also has terrible continuity issues, and goes from moments of great epiphany to nonchalance so quickly that you’ll get whiplash.

It felt like an endless steam of thought from the mind of an inexperienced teenager. There was no believability and it was filled with factual inaccuracies. And I don’t mean the Greek God aspect, I mean the complete lack of understanding about day to day life.

It was forced, lazy, trivial, contrary and exasperating. And worst of all, there is zero resolution of any situation that arose.

Angela Dawe was superb as usual, but she didn’t have much to work with. I honestly don’t even know how they got her to narrate this.

Sorry if this review is harsh but I was so irritated when I finished that I just had to be brutally honest. Skip this one.