Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Star Crossed

Helen lives on an island in the middle of nowhere. A new family the Delos move to the island. Helen is not impressed but the minute she meets Lucas she attacks him. She has this rage that she doesn't know how to control. She also see theses three women crying in blood every time she is near them which she later finds out is the furies. The keep attacking each other for weeks until she flies by accident to get away from this woman that was chasing her. Lucas catches her after she starts to fall cause he can fly too but they land hard on the beach which makes a crater and his family comes and saves them. Lucas has powers from Apollo. Helen has the ability to create lighting bolts, and fly which means she gets her powers from Zeus. Lucas teaches Helen how to fly. After Lucas saves Helen they no longer hate each other. They are forbidden lovers cause if Lucas starts a relationship with Helen it could start a new Trojan war.
      She finds out that the Delos and her are demigods. They are Scions which is basically descendants of demigods. Scion's have specific powers that all scions have that include strength, speed, agility, acute hearing and eyesight, rapid healing, beauty, and intelligence. Then they all have rare talents that arr specific to each individual like flying for example.
      There were 4 families of Greek Gods that fought each other during the Trojan war;The House of Arteus, The House of Rome, The House of Athens, and the House of Thebes. The families have been fighting for centuries. The houses joined with the Greek Gods to fight the Trojan war. The war went on for 10 years and Zeus had to step in to stop it. He made a truce to end the war but in order to do that he had to make sure that the houses never united together again. Then a few decades later the houses had this huge confrontation where they tried to eliminate each other. The House Atreus, the House of Athens, and the House of Rome were completely wiped out supposedly. The House of Thebes was the only house, which is the Delos family's house, separated from the 100 cousins so they would not kill each other. They are not sure what family Helen is from but her mother took some high risks to hide her. The families tried to raise the lost city of Atlantis so that the Greek Gods can return to Earth, rule, and to make the Scions immortal.
       Helen and Lucas want to have a relationship really bad but they are star crossed. Lucas's mom forbids them to stop seeing each other but they can't resist. Later on Creon who is the relative that lives in Venice, Italy comes after Helen because he wants to kill her. Helen finally gets to meet her mother and she discovers she has a gift of changing her face to any age she wants.  The family also finds out that not all the houses are extinct as they thought. They are very much alive still. The fates really have it in for the 4 houses. There has always been a pattern of star crossed lovers from different houses for decades. Helen's mom has dedicated her life to finding these star crossed lovers. Helen's mom gets kidnapped, a family member is killed, and Hector becomes an outcast for killing his own kin. The hundred cousins are on their way to try to kill Helen but I won't know more about that until the 2nd book.






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