Goddess by Josephine Angelini
Macmillan Children's Books, 2013. ISBN: 9780330529761.
Goddess by Josephine Angelini is a fantasy novel that is the
third and final book in a trilogy about the extravagance of the
Greek gods. Helen is a young woman who is a daughter of the powerful
Zeus and sister of the beautiful Aphrodite with powerful friends
both on earth and on Olympus, Helen is a very powerful young woman.
But when she gets flashbacks from the lives of other Helens
throughout history and sees her friends playing different roles
through time, Helen becomes torn when her one true love in every
other life is her cousin in this one! Along with this new
revelation, Helen is more powerful than herself and others fathomed
due to the accidental combination of the different houses bloodlines
with her two closest friends and torn affections, Orion and Lucas.
This is a long prophesised occurrence and Helen soon learns
something life changing from her uncle Hades about this new
development. The world is in danger from the gods and goddesses of
Olympus and she is both the cause and the saviour. Helen must
quickly find a way to save the man she loves and resist him at the
same time while saving the world and her semi-mortal family from her
immortal one.
Goddess is a faced paced action novel that draws the reader
in with curiosity and mystery, slowing the pace only to allow the
timeless romance of forbidden love. This novel is well suited to
older teens due to the action and romance themes as well as people
who have read the other books in the series. Drawing you in with
mythology, Goddess isn't a book that you can put down
easily.
Sarah Filkin (Student)