Rating: 1/5 
 *** Minor spoilers *** 
 (Written from my phone, please excuse any mistakes) 
 Helen Hamilton has always known she was a little bit different than normal. She runs track and never gets winded, and she has strange nightmares and wakes up with dirt and blood in her sheets but no cuts. When she encounters one of the new boys at school, she attacks him, and feels angry enough to try to kill him. She has no idea why she wanted to kill him or why his whole family hates her. It seems that all the answers are with Lucas, the boy she attacked. 
 I can't believe I'm rating a book based on Greek mythology 1 star. Usually even a book centred around Greek myth with bad writing will get a higher rating simply because the mythology intrigues me. Unfortunately, this book was extremely frustrating and the mythology couldn't distract me from it. In fact, I didn't really like at all how she incorporated the Greek mythology into the story. 
 I found the characters so irritating. Helen, the protagonist, was the perfect track star athlete straight A's chaste student. She's basically in love with Lucas, who she can never be with because of some complications with the mythical side of things. They're starcrossed lovers, as the book title suggests. I just didn't like how Lucas kept leading Helen on and then shutting her down when he responded to what he started. 
 Like I said, I wasn't a big fan of the mythology aspect. It was about demigods and how they're basically descended from the demigods who fought in the Trojan war and they all resemble someone who was in the war. I found it very strange. Also, nobody can write demigods like Rick Riordan can write demigods, no matter how different the plot is from Percy Jackson and the Olympians. 
 Overall, I wasn't too impressed with this book, and it was a pretty big letdown. I expected to enjoy it a lot because of the Greek mythology but that part of the book was actually a downside for me. The characters also just didn't do it for me and I couldn't deal with the romance that was going nowhere, but I should've expected that when reading a book called Starcrossed. I definitely don't recommend this book if you get irritated with characters easily, otherwise you may have better luck.