Can true love be FORGOTTEN?

As the only Scion who can descend into the Underworld, Helen Hamilton has been given a nearly impossible task. By night she wanders through Hades, trying to stop the endless cycle of revenge that has cursed her family. By day she struggles to overcome the fatigue that is rapidly eroding her sanity. Without Lucas by her side, Helen is not sure she has the strength to go on.

Just as Helen is pushed to her breaking point, a mysterious new Scion comes to her rescue. Funny and brave, Orion shields her from the dangers of the Underworld. But time is running out - a ruthless foe plots against them, and the Furies' cry for blood is growing louder.

As the ancient Greek world collides with the mortal one, Helen's sheltered life on Nantucket descends into chaos. But the hardest task of all will be forgetting Lucas Delos.

Josephine Angelini's compelling saga becomes ever more intricate and spellbinding as an unforgettable love triangle emerges and the eternal cycle of revenge intensifies. Eagerly awaited, this sequel to the internationally bestselling STARCROSSED delivers a gritty, action-packed love story that exceeds all expectations.

I have so many things to say about this book since my opinion about the whole series changed from negative-ish to positive. I have no idea how to rate this book, no more than 4 stars for sure, but 3 stars seems too low since Dreamless was better than Starcrossed in so many aspects.

Plot picks up where Starcossed left it. Helen keeps descending to Uderworld in order to stop the furies while rest of the Delos family try to help her as best as they can. She can’t get in contact with her mysterious mother Daphne who pops in her life only when she has something important to add, but at least she helps her by sending Orion- double Heir with artifact that enables him to descend with Helen. Her best friends Claire and Matt start getting involved with Scions and Helen’s dangerous life and protecting them becomes harder every day. Since descending prevents her to sleep, Helen becomes more exhausted every day her relationship with Lucas is going to hell and on top of everything, major part of the House Thebes wants her dead.

Although I didn’t like world building and abilities demigods inherit trough the first book, I started to ignore the fact that there was not specific way of inheriting certain powers and rather enjoyed connections with Greek gods and their abilities. Parallels with Greek mythology were explained and deepened and many things made more sense. For example, Helen’s descending was much clearer and easier to grasp and imagine. Everything about Houses, Outcasts and Rogues was thoroughly explained, rather than just stating prophecies and confusing facts or concepts that have been briefly mentioned in conversation.

This is probably just me, but I could sense obvious improvement in writing style. It felt like narrative was flowing more naturally and dialogues stopped being forced in some kind of weird slang.

Even though I am used to second book in trilogy being the most non-dynamic, this wasn’t the case. Plot was way more intense and dynamic than the first book and there was always something happening. It had just the right amount of twists, descriptions and endangering characters to entertain the reader. After half of the book I couldn’t stop reading and the ending was intense and unpredictable with much tension and opening for an amazing finish in last book of the trilogy. *spoiler*After Ares freed other gods from the Olympus and started a war, there is a lot of potential for Goddess and plot itself.

Helen Hamilton remained perfect, beautiful, but plain and boring character. She got a little bit more interesting, but only because of the plot and other characters who contributed o her development. Something I loved about her was her determination to take care of her family and friends no matter the cost. Other times I didn’t particularly care for her, except when she whined about Lucas which annoyed me to pieces. She also seems to be happy to die all the time- every time she was near death she stopped fighting and, literally, begged to die.

Aaaand after 20 pages of the book, there it is! Love triangle. It would have been so much better if Angelini just killed off Lucas. He is such unnecessary character with no other considerable traits than being handsome. I like Orion because he actually has some backstory and hope he and Helen will be endgame. I really hope there won’t be any love triangle drama in Goddess because I can’t take it.

Also, is everyone there dense not to notice Helen is 17 and Ajax died 19 years ago?

As for other characters, they stayed pretty much the same- likable and heroic, but not too complex. I am glad to see some other relationships and developments that aren’t Helen’s.


If you have read Starcrossed and have doubts about continuing it, do it. I can say it gets better and more enjoyable and as far as I have seen, Goddess is even better :)