Review: "Starcrossed" by Josephine Angelini
Title: Starcrossed
Author: Josephine Angelini
Format: Print
Synopsis: How do you defy destiny?
Helen Hamilton has spent her entire sixteen years
trying to hide how different she is—no easy task on an island as small and
sheltered as Nantucket. And it's getting harder. Nightmares of a desperate
desert journey have Helen waking parched, only to find her sheets damaged by
dirt and dust. At school she's haunted by hallucinations of three women weeping
tears of blood . . . and when Helen first crosses paths with Lucas Delos, she
has no way of knowing they're destined to play the leading roles in a tragedy
the Fates insist on repeating throughout history.
As Helen unlocks the secrets of her ancestry, she
realizes that some myths are more than just legend. But even demigod powers
might not be enough to defy the forces that are both drawing her and Lucas
together—and trying to tear them apart.
Review: Sometimes I feel so dumb. I can’t believe that
I had such a wonderful book at home and it took me almost two months to start reading
it. This is really something that I don’t know how to explain to you. As you
can see in the image below, the Portuguese cover is gorgeous (the others as
well, but I felt a special connection with this one) and the publisher gave us
a synopsis which turns irresistible for readers.
Josephine Angelini arrival in Portuguese Literary
Market was made in a spectacular way, I’m completely in love with this book and
wishful for the release of the second one.
To be honest with you all, in the beginning I thought
that maybe the story was a little too childish, it was only when Lucas appeared
that everything was set in motion and star to develop in an enthusiastic way. Unfortunately, the first chapter
has low quality if we compare to the book as a whole. Forgetting about the
first chapter - especially the first five pages – and we have a great surprise which
end’s with the introduction of the Delos’ family in the story. This is the
moment that the veil of mystery is uncovered, we totally forget about time and
we only want to know some more about what’s really happening.
I really enjoyed the book, in some way it seems that
we only have erotic books in our bookstores, so this story was, for me, something
new and separate from our market tendency. Mythology is such a great theme,
there are so many topics to explore, so I don’t understand why we – Portuguese readers
– don’t have more of these books to read.
The characters are great, it was a job well done with their
construction, just like it was the scenery. For me, everything was so well set that
it was almost normal to see people using special powers; it was just like this
was something that we see every day in our neighborhood. Although they were
only teenagers, I keep forgetting it, because their behavior was similar to an
adult and not a 16 year old teenager. I loved the relationship between Lucas
and Helen, just like I loved Jason and Claire. Since the beginning I noticed
that something special was waiting for them. Another character who made me
curious was Hector, I believe we are going to see more of him on the next
books.
Josephine Angelini, you have conquered another fan!
