Goddess is the last book in Josephine Angelini's Starcrossed trilogy. It picks up pretty much picks up right where Dreamless ended, so if you haven't read Dreamless yet, there will be some spoilers in this review.
Helen, Lucas, and Orion fight with Ares left the three of them as blood brothers, and that mixed the blood of four Scion Houses. This causes the twelve major gods to be released from their prison on Olympus. The Scion houses call a meet to figure out what to do about the gods, who up to their old tricks, and the coming of the Tyrant.
Lucas, Helen, Orion, and Hector form an alliance to stand together, and not with any one house, which opens a whole crazy can of worms between the Houses. Helen keeps having dreams of her past lives, how all the people in her life now played a role in them. She figures out that the fates keep repeating the same cycle because the end they desire has not come, yet. Plus she is dealing with an increase in her powers, her love for Lucas, and how to stop the cycle.
I thought this was a pretty good ending to the trilogy. Ms. Angelini did well in answering all the lingering questions from the previous books, like what role everyone played and why Daphne lied about Helen's father. Although, some of the people came out of nowhere, and I wish there had been a better lead up to who and what they were. One of the things that really annoyed me was that it took the other characters way too long to figure out who the Tyrant was. It got pretty obvious in just the first few chapters for me.
I am just going to admit that my favorite characters in these books are not the main characters of Helen and Lucas, but their supporting characters. I think that the supporting characters in this series are really what make it worth the read. Hector is fabulous, and so heroic and smooth, of course until he finally meets the one, and then he is so tongue tied it is cute. Daphne for all her faults as a mother, definitely keeps it interesting and keeps you guess her motives almost up to the very end. Plus, event though he is a really minor character in the amount of time he gets in the books, Hades is wonderful. There is some much personality and wisdom in his little moments, I could not do anything but love him.
I think that overall Ms. Angelini did a good job at placing a new spin on Greek mythology. There were a few flaws, but it is a good read.
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