I think the info dump, the lackluster narration, and the illy placed dreams made the pacing in this book seem very awkward and just sort of ruined climax. Their relationship really grew slowly and I love how Ry let Isadora see that love isn't all about hurting in the end. Here is this child of the gods going to San Diego, making friends, working a job, and hating her family – idk something was missing for me. It's amusing in many ways, but also gives a story so much more history, so much more expanse of time, taking the gods of old and bringing them through so many centuries to now.

Most books tend to focus on the Greek or Roman gods - and I'm not complaining about this because Greek gods are my jam - but it was nice to see White break apart from that and choose to focus on the Egyptian Gods which I don't know that much about honestly. I tried going through them one day sometime last year, only to discover how terribly juvenile they all were, but hey, I was a tween! Her aunt has been poisoning Isis during her pregnancy and has gotten away with it without Isadora there to realize what's going on. The deal with Ry was kinda obvious from early on, Tyler is amazing, I never really got a clear picture of Sirus or Deena but what I saw I liked. When she had that talk with her brother and he told her that although their mom didn’t make them immortal, she prepare them for a happy life on their own.Yes her parents are gods but she’s a human and when everyone else worships her family but can’t even remember her name or give her much of a passing glance, Isadora is fed up. That was the greatest gift two ageless, eternal, very very stuck gods could think to give the children they love more than anything. When your mother is a goddess and you an insecure teen, a healthy mother-daughter relationship is simply not in the cards. And then the history lessons just felt like filler bits to remind us that we were reading a mythology book and not a contemporary romance. The build up to who was involved in all the lies and scheming was a bit of a let down and it ended very abruptly.

The pages flew by, I never had to think very hard, the entire story was obvious and predictable from the start, but sometimes this is the perfect book!

So yes, this book was very cutesy and pretty predictable, it was also just fun and easy to read and sometimes that's all you need. In all honesty, I purely read this book because the "And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you. What we get as world-building is tons and tons of info-dump, which to me does not constitute of world-building. Isadora would rather think about how much she wants to spite her mother, redecorate every room she enters (she’s an aspiring interior designer), and not fall in love with the beautiful Greek boy, Ry, who’s hanging around.

To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. Because she could be your sister, your cousin, any one of a million teenaged girls out there, during those oh-so-troublesome teenage years. The mystery took a side stage to the antics of Isadora and her teenaged rebellion, her exploration of San Diego and its beaches, her interior decorating skills, Isadora's enjoyment of her newfound freedom, which includes cutting her hair, dying it purple, and eating all the sugar she can stomach, and trying not to fall in love with Ry. Her life gets flipped, turned upside down (whoa…Fresh Prince moment right there…), after she finds out that she is not immortal. They're crystal blue, a shade that shouldn't exist on the human body, I shade I immediately crave, a shade that makes my heart beat a little bit faster--almost as if I recognize it.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. So when good old mom starts having dreams about something bad coming their way, Isadora see her chance for escape. Instead, I found out what I hated about Paranormalcy because this book had the same proble: it was gimmicky.

And then I'm mad that I even feel like I need to have a list, which is another thing to put on the list I wish I didn't have to have. Despite my grievances with The Chaos of Stars, I did think there were some enjoyable elements to the book, namely the friendship between Ry, Tyler, Scott and Isadora.Main characters are assumed White; same-sex marriages and gender equality at the warfront appear to be the norm in this world. And then bam, he's the descendent of Greek gods which is just completely random and irrelevant to the story except for the fact that White puts her foot in her mouth when she states that Greek and Egyptian mythology is the same thing.