I read this book in one long gulp. The pacing was awesome, the characters were interesting, it was a fresh take on Greek mythology (which I admittedly don’t know too much about) and then I reached the ending. And it annoyed the heck out of me. I hate cliffhangers. With a passion. If the next book is available the next week or something, that’s okay, I can wait that long but when the release date of the second novel has not even been set yet…well, yeah, it takes away from the number of stars I would have originally given the book.Okay, let’s do this a bit more conventionally.I liked the book. It has all the clichés that YA Paranormals are (notoriously) known for but still, the writing is engaging. Before there was instant attraction, there was instant repulsion. I kinda liked that. That “I hate you so much I must kill you” bit totally disarmed me with its originality. And a girl who is strong enough to kill a guy? That’s even more fun. Also, I am a sucker for families and the family dynamics in this novel is complex enough to keep the reader interested in trying to work out what’s happening and with who.Helen’s own family is dysfunctional (and this might be an understatement) and when her erstwhile mother does make an appearance, you wish she hadn’t. If this review sounds scattered, it totally is. I read this book quite a while ago. I will say that the book was tightly written for the first three quarters and then started unraveling. Plot threads frayed, things happened that shouldn’t have, and the Romeo/Juliet trope was evoked. I was not impressed by that and by the time the grand culmination rolled around…well, there wasn’t any culmination. We were teased to a frenzy and then left flailing.Read this book if you want something YA. But if I were you, I’d wait until all the books in the series are out. You will thank me when you reach the cliffhanger.
