STARCROSSED

STARCROSSED

Josephine Angelini

★★★☆☆

            Meeting his eyes was an awakening. For the first time in Helen’s life she knew what pure, heart-poisoning hatred was.

            She was not aware of the fact that she was running toward him, but she could hear the voices of the three sobbing sisters rise into a keening wail, could see them standing behind the tall, dark boy she knew was Lucas, and the smaller, brown-haired boy next to him. The sisters were tearing at their hair until it came out of their scalps in bloody hanks. They pointed accusing fingers at the two boys while they screeched a series of names- the names of people murdered long ago. Helen suddenly understood what she had to do.

            Helen Hamilton has spent her whole life- sixteen years- hiding the fact that she isn’t completely normal, no easy feat on the small island she lives on, where everyone knows everyone else. But when she begins having nightmares of walking in a deserted, dry land and wakes to find her sheets grimy and her feet scratched, it gets even harder. To add to that, three weeping women suddenly start haunting her and she has not the faintest idea why.

            The moment she first sees Lucas Delos, she is overcome by rage and hatred and very nearly kills him, right in the middle of her high school’s fully crowded hallway. Little did she know, she and Lucas are doomed to play the leads in a tragedy the Fates are relentlessly determined to repeat throughout all history. As Helen uncovers more and more about her ancestry and who she is, she finds an unseen force irresistibly drawing her closer to Lucas- and brutally ripping them apart at the same time.

            Starcrossed is an entrancing novel that has many elements of Greek Mythology. I would recommend it to people who liked Lauren Kate’s Fallen series and Kiersten White’s Paranormalcy, as well as any romance novel lovers out there. Personally, I’m not a huge romance person but this story pulled me in so well that I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would. So if you’re looking for something to read, try this novel out if you’d like. Comment please, and Happy Valentine's Day!!!J