Jen's Review
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by Josephini Angelini
May 31, 2011
HarperTeen
488 pages, Paperback
This
book was a MONSTER! A monster as in, a long book… Sadly, not as in "it was
absolutely amazing". Because unfortunately, Starcrossed fell a
little flat for me. It wasn't terrible in any way--I quite enjoyed it,
actually--it just kind of let me down. I was expecting this totally epic love
story with TONS of awesome Greek mythology. While there definitely was a
beautiful love story and many elements of Greek mythology that I loved, there
were some things here and there in the story that I just didn't like.
For
example, probably the major letdown of the novel for me was the amount of
characters in the novel. You've got Helen, her family, the ENTIRE Delos family
(which was like 10+ people, I swear), and the bad guys, and the Gods. I totally
lost track of a lot of the characters, and I thought some of them really didn't
even need to be part of the story. It all just confused me and made me
frustrated.
The
other thing that bothered me terribly was Lucas and Helen's relationship in the
beginning. I was fine with their romantic relationship after they fell in love, but in the
beginning, their romance just didn't make any sense and it could have been done
better. When Helen and Lucas first meet, Helen tackles (yes, the girl attacks the guy) and they have an
instant hatred for each other. WHAT? That makes no sense. WHY? Why the hate,
people? The reader goes on wondering this for a good chunk of the book. That's
way too long, and I still had a problem with when they DID fall in love. Their
sudden transition from hate to love was spontaneous and didn't make much sense
at all.
Aside
from the negative, everything else was pretty nice and solid. The Greek
Mythology was really fantastic and interesting, probably the best part of the
book! I always love reading about different authors' views on mythology, and I
couldn't have loved Miss Angelini's mythology more. It was great! The plot was
very fabulous as well. I wasn't expecting mystery and thrill. Alas, Josephine
Angelini adds it in there and it's done very well! Her crafting of plot line
was exciting with tons of plot twists and shocking scenes.
Starcrossed
is overall a solid Greek mythology novel--while the romance and characters were
certainly baffling, Starcrossed proved to be a great story with exciting scenes
and entertaining Greek mythology elements thrown in. Definitely recommended for
readers who want to try out a good mythology if they won't mind the romance.
Audiobook Review: The audio was.. Alright. Could have been better, but
I'm not complaining. It's long though, so I think it's probably faster and it's
easier to understand if the reader physically reads it.
3.5 Teacups for Starcrossed!
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