Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini

Blurb:

How do you defy destiny?

Helen Hamilton has spent her entire sixteen years trying to hide how different she is—no easy task on an island as small and sheltered as Nantucket. And it's getting harder. Nightmares of a desperate desert journey have Helen waking parched, only to find her sheets damaged by dirt and dust. At school she's haunted by hallucinations of three women weeping tears of blood . . . and when Helen first crosses paths with Lucas Delos, she has no way of knowing they're destined to play the leading roles in a tragedy the Fates insist on repeating throughout history.

As Helen unlocks the secrets of her ancestry, she realizes that some myths are more than just legend. But even demigod powers might not be enough to defy the forces that are both drawing her and Lucas together—and trying to tear them apart.

Review:
One word: WOW. Ohmigod, I adored this book. I mean full on fell in love with the book. I thought it would be your average Joe forbidden love, where they probably end up dying in the end, you know, Shakespeare wannabes. But no, this was filled with people wanting to kill each other and Gods and Zeus and places you go in your sleep but your actually there and its so confusing but in a really good way.
Okay, first you start off with Helen, thinking she's human and has a pretty normal life, she knows she's a bit different because she can run really fast but a lot of people can. Thats until she gets annoyed by a name and she doesn't even know why. And then she sees a very pretty boy but all she wants to do is kill him. In the middle of the school hallway. Which she tries to do. Without much luck. She doesn't understand why she wants to kill him because she has never seen him in her life. It turns out that it is because they are desendants of ancient Greek Gods, which I thought was pretty cool because I've never read a book about Gods and Goddesses. But one night they save each others life and suddenly the need to kill each other goes. Which is good because the thing that kept going through my mind was 'This book is going to end with them dying.' But then they loose the will to kill each other and seem to fall in love which was good because I loved the characters.
Helen is a shy girl who doesn't like causing trouble and hates attention. She wants to get off the island of Nantucket (which I never knew was an island, I'm rubbish at Geography) and go to college, which doesn't happen in most books. People just want to get away from their families and then they fall in love with Vampires and become Vampires and get into trouble with other Vampires or Werewolves. Then there is the character of Lucas, at first I didn't like him to start with and then he became sweet and loving and protective after they saved each others lives. You see that he cares about his family and that he wants to keep Helen out of harms way. He was so sweet.
The ending surprised me and I was like WOW i never saw that but there was another part that I knew was going to happen.
A new take on the Greek Gods and a new addition to my Series's to watch! It was amazing and I am recommending it to everyone