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The Chaos of Stars

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You will get no arguments from me that our main character is an easy character to hate, but I find myself empathizing with her more often than not. There she meets Tyler, a girl who turns out to be something she never thought she would ever have: a BFF. Despite being the daughter of ancient Egyptian gods, Isadora is mortal, she will grow old, she will die, she hates it.

Admittedly, I wasn’t very encouraged at the Goodreads average rating but in the first early chapters, I’ve come across with Osiris reading a newspaper in Tagalog (the first language of a quarter of the Filipinos’ population) so I decided the book must be worth reading. She is resentful towards her parents, her brother, her own mortality; when Isis announces that she is having another child, Isadora takes that as the final straw. Anyway, you saved me from the torture of having to finish this book and I appreciate you more than you know. Since it's mainly about the egyptian ones, they were more on the background and don't find out about him until way later in the book. There are short retellings of Egyptian myths at the beginning of each chapter but come on, I don’t want two paragraphs about the old myths if I can have the actual gods as characters in this story.I had a particularly hard time finding a book for that prompt, not because there aren’t any SFF novels out there, but because none of them interested me very much. But although her parents are immortal Egyptian gods, they will let her die instead of keeping her with them forever. I will probably check out one more Kiersten White book because I hope her writing has improved over the years. It's just about a girl moving to America, meeting friends, hating her family, not wanting to fall in love, working at a museum, and starting an interior design project. Pretty much nothing happens in this entire story until the last 20 pages, the first 20 pages are used to setup the story and family dynamics and then Isadora is already in America.

who conveniently is still wearing the gold wristlet/bracelet Ry gave her before his declaration of love.

Isadora is tired of her immortal relatives and their ancient mythological drama, so when she gets the chance to move to California with her brother, she jumps on it. Kiersten White is probably best known for her Paranormalcy series which reads like a kid high on candy. I'm a fan of mythologies, so I loved the concept of following the Egyptians gods/goddesses and their offspring, with the setting being the modern world. While in San Diego with her favorite brother Sirus and his wife Deena, Isadora finds her first friend and meets a boy she really, really likes. I don’t normally read YA books but I was particularly drawn to this one as I have an interest in Egyptian mythology.

I can’t say that I loved this book—at least, not the way that I’ve loved the Paranormalcy trilogy or the Mind Games books—but once I had my chart I enjoyed the story. Their friendship and romance were rather enjoyable because I always knew Isadora would come around eventually – that certainty made me smile even when she was being extremely difficult and frustrating. They just get me in the zone; she has this quality to her writing that draws you along and makes you keep turning pages - even when it's flawed, it goes down like candy. What we get as world-building is tons and tons of info-dump, which to me does not constitute of world-building.Once in San Diego, she is horrified at the prospect of yet ANOTHER inconvenient pregnancy, in this case, her brother's wife's incoming baby.

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