All good stories have a few false starts...Myth: The children of immortal gods are immortal, too. Reality: Isadora isn't going to be around forever - and her parents barely seem to notice she's alive right now. Myth: Once a god, always a god - that kind of power never fades away. Reality: These days, Isadora's relatives are clinging to the little bit of power they have left. And some of them would do anything to take it all. Myth: Every teenage girl dreams of falling in love. Reality: From what Isadora's seen, love is a painful mess. All she dreams of is a normal life away from her crazy family-minus any romantic drama. Myth: If you go far enough, you can leave the past behind. Reality: Isadora moves halfway around the world to San Diego for a fresh start, but quickly finds that there's no such thing as a clean break from family - and that leaving her old life may mean sacrificing more than she ever guessed. Kiersten White burst onto the scene with her New York Times bestselling Paranormalcy trilogy, which won readers' hearts with its enchanting mix of magic and real-world teenage humor and drama.
Her dark thriller, Mind Games, is an emotionally intense tale of crime and intrigue, which New York Times bestselling author Holly Black called A brutal, exciting gem of a book. The Chaos of Stars blends sweet romance, high-stakes suspense, and the magic of Egyptian mythology to create a complex, funny, and deeply moving story about true love and what it means to be a family.
I totally loved this book; the cover is stunning! It is a new type of book for me, never read anything really like it. In fact, I am quite disappointed that there are so many low reviews of this story on Good Reads. There is a lot of praise for the author's previous work, which I have not read, but not much for this novel which I heard quite a bit of hype about.
Maybe the low reviews are because people were expecting something different than what they got. Maybe they just did not get the story, which I do admit took a bit to get into, but still had most of the classic things you read in a teen novel . It is a bit of a stretch for the story to be about Egyptian Gods. I mean it was not like she is only novelist who has done a story with Gods and them having Children. (Percy Jackson, anyone?). I loved this story, and I hope that more people read it and give it a chance.
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