Massachusetts is the next stop on the YA book tour and Josephine Angelini's Starcossed is representing.
Helen Hamilton has always felt different from everyone else, and tried her best to hide it in every way possible. That becomes a lot harder to do once the Delos show up, especially as soon as she sees Lucas Delos, she wants to to kill him. In fact, every time she is near one of them, she is haunted by these creepy women who make her homicidal.
That all changes one night after she learns she can fly, and Lucas saves her from death. The creepy women, who it turns out the the Furies of ancient Greece, are no longer haunting any of them.
Helen and Lucas begin a strange relationship somewhere between friendship and romance. Helen learns more of who and what she is from the Delos family, and just how different she is from normal humans.
The story has several little twist that kept me interested despite the characters seem a little cookie cutter to YA fiction. Some of the twist you can see coming, and others hit you from no where. While in general I liked Helen, Lucas, and the rest of the Delos family, they did feel like characters I had encountered before in other novels at times.
I do enjoy the story idea, and the healthy mix of Greek mythology in it, which I have always liked. I know the mythology is not spot on to traditional myths, but the difference keep it a little fresher. I am interested to see who the series will progress, especially seeing the prophecy that the author gives toward the end.
Currently Reading:
Blood and Chocolate
by Annette Curtis Klause
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