Goddess (Starcrossed #3) By Josephine Angelini

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She must rise, or they will fall . . .

Helen's powers are increasing—and so is the distance between her and her mortal friends. To make matters worse, the Oracle reveals that a dangerous traitor is lurking among them, and all fingers point to Orion. Still unsure whether she loves him or Lucas, Helen is forced to make a terrifying decision, or risk all-out war.

Helen's powers are becoming more powerful, with all families linked, emerged, Helen is really their only hope. 
I don't get the bit where the Oracle reveal a dangerous traitor lurking among them, I can only remember them not liking Orion because he has the power to make them stay away. Just being around them helps Cassandra. She can finally feel when she's around them. 

I was shocked about Matt. I loved him and his character and knowing he went that far, shocked me. 
I knew the thing that they were all worried about would turn out to be Helen, it was plainly obvious, I didn't believe for one second it would be Orion. There is just something about him that draws you to him. 

I was glad when the secret of Helen was finally out, even if it was too late. I also loved Hades and the dream catcher who she meets desending. I loved them. 

The story came to a great conclusion and I loved how it all played out. I was upset to see certain people leave and certain choices that were made but it all added to the intensity of the story. 

5*

Dreamless (Starcrossed #2) By Josephine Angelini

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Tasked with descending to the underworld and killing the Furies, Helen must endure hellish torture whenever she goes to sleep – she wanders around the various levels of hell with no idea how to complete her task, and she’s beginning to suffer from extreme exhaustion. Although she still trains with the Delos clan, Helen and Lucas are coming to terms with the fact that they cannot be together. Lucas believes that the only way Helen will complete her quest is if he leaves her alone completely, so he tells her he doesn’t want to see her again and that he never loved her. Distraught, Helen carries on with her mission, and for the first time meets another person down in the shadowy underworld: Orion, descended from Adonis and with the power to control desire, he is the heir to the house of Rome and an outcast. He’s also kind of hot. Confused by her conflicting emotions but glad to have an ally in hell, Helen begins to realize the enormity of her task . . .

Knowing her background Helen still struggles with certain aspects of her powers and who she is still. 
When she starts descending into the underworld with a mission to kill the furies so she can free her new family, she never realised how hard it would be or how alone she would feel. 
She's still trying to cope with losing Lucas, knowing she still loves him even after finding out he's her cousin. The two are being pulled away but fate has other plans for the two of them. I hated seeing the two apart. I got used to seeing how cute they were together and if it wasn't the curse of bringing the families together than it was the fact they were cousins. It seemed everything was against the two even though they couldn't be more perfect together. 

When she meets Orin, who I adored but didn't trust fully at the beginning, going into the underworld didn't seem so bad. She had something to look forward to once she found Orin and finally managed to control everything around her instead of going to sleep at night and being tortured and killed in the underworld. 

Orin turns out to be another outcast, one that should have been killed at birth because of his abilities. He's too powerful and any earth shaker is left as a newborn to die but instead, his father took him away. 
He grew up on his own alone until Helen's mother Daphne helped him. This was the reason I didn't trust him. I didn't like Daphne, her motives were against the others and she was very sly about her actions. 

This book has more drama, more heartbreak and yet again, the information on the gods and their families confused me to know end. It drove me mad. I actually asked a few other readers if they had the same problem and they all agreed. It needed knocking down for us, bit by bit. 

4*

Starcrossed (Starcrossed #1) By Josephine Angelini

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When shy, awkward Helen Hamilton sees Lucas Delos for the first time she thinks two things: the first, that he is the most ridiculously beautiful boy she has seen in her life; the second, that she wants to kill him with her bare hands. With an ancient curse making them loathe one another, Lucas and Helen have to keep their distance. But sometimes love is stronger than hate, and not even the gods themselves can prevent what will happen...

This book....
I'm going to start with Helen Hamilton. Her mother left her when she was a mere child and has been raised by her single dad ever since. She's the quiet, awkward type and a nerd, even though she's the most beautiful girl on the island. 
She's always seen herself as weird, that she's a freak and deep down she's believed that she's a monster. 

When the new family move to the island, Helen finds herself irritated whenever a Delos family member is mentioned. She doesn't know where the anger comes from or why since she's never met them, she just knows she already hates them and hates that everyone keeps talking about them.

What she didn't know was laying her eyes on a Delos would she find him attractive one second, and is ready to kill him within the next second. Which she tries, in front of the whole school, which then leads her to in severer pain since whenever she does something that causes attention to herself she ends up with really bad stomach pains. 

The two have a lot to work through but they can't if whenever they're together they want to rip each other's throats out. 

I love the characters and found myself wanting more. The only thing that I think needed addressing better was the backstory. The mention of all the gods, their curses and their families and who they were needed 'dumbing down' I guess. It was too confusing to keep track of who was who and why and where and when and how. It honestly boggled my mind that I literally had to make my own theory's up LOL 

Other than that it was well written, the story was well informed and a lot of research and theories went into work. 

4.5*