Title: The chaos of stars
Author: Kiersten White
Publisher: HarperTeen
Release Date: September 10th 2013
Book Summary :
Of course, as the human daughter of Egyptian gods, that pretty much comes with the territory. She’s also stuck with parents who barely notice her, and a house full of relatives who can’t be bothered to remember her name. After all, they are going to be around forever—and she’s a mere mortal.Isadora’s sick of living a life where she’s only worthy of a passing glance, and when she has the chance to move to San Diego with her brother, she jumps on it. But Isadora’s quickly finding that a “normal” life comes with plenty of its own epic complications—and that there’s no such thing as a clean break when it comes to family. Much as she wants to leave her past behind, she can’t shake the ominous dreams that foretell destruction for her entire family. When it turns out there may be truth in her nightmares, Isadora has to decide whether she can abandon her divine heritage after all.
My Review:
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.
I have this, and I am so delighted you enjoyed it, Like you I do not mind if the pace is slow as the world is built. I am looking forward to reading it.