I feel cheated; horribly and terribly cheated. Perhaps even more so if I had read the book with the HarperTeen cover because that one looks gorgeous and it always upsets me when I read a bad book with a gorgeous cover. I don't want to sound mean but I honestly cannot see how this book received praise from critics. Praise from mythology fans would be hard-pressed but critics? I thought the critics would have been harder to please. 
 Let me start off by saying that I didn't finish the book. I really couldn't. I tried my best to, but with my patience wearing thin, it was more than I could take. So this review will be only on what I did read, which is about half of the book. 
 Okay, let's start with the story itself. It's not too bad of a plot. Helen Hamilton is a girl who's always been different. She starts having weird nightmares where she sleepwalks and she gets hallucinations of three women weeping tears of blood. When she meets 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". 
 That summary actually makes it sound better than it really is. From what I've read, the entire novel seems to be fixated on the fact that no one knows which "House" Helen belongs to and therefore, this makes it all ~dangerous and exciting~ because here's some drama about some Hundred Cousins and basically, the fate of the world rests with Helen. I got bored really fast because there are just too many characters who are not properly fleshed out (even by the halfway mark of the novel), and they all sort of blended together. Even Helen herself seems flat and there's not a good start to a novel/series/whatever. 
 It's a debut novel, and it shows. I'm not saying I can do a better job but I think that if you're a published author, your writing should be up to par; acceptable by publishing standards. The writing here, however, is choppy, slow and amateurish. The pacing is way off. Everything moved so very slowly and I got so frustrated and bored that I couldn't see the point of why the author was putting in seemingly random fight scenes in here, or inserting random new characters with no foreshadowing in there, etc. 
 Another gripe I have about Starcrossed is the romance. Love at first sight might work for some novels, rarely for most, but here, it just annoys me to no end. In five pages, maybe even less, we have Helen and Lucas holding hands, sleeping together (not in that way though, thank goodness), behaving like complete lovebirds. I don't care if it's the curse being undone or not, or whatever. This is from a girl who tried to claw the guy's face off from the moment they laid eyes. Unbelievable. Then, we also have Helen moping about when she overhead Lucas saying something about her and all I can think about is why would she subject herself to this? She barely knows the guy; she has no right or need to mope about! 
 Apparently, this book is also said to be humorous. I'm sorry, but this book is funny? Maybe, by this time, I've been worn out by the writing but I honestly didn't find anything funny in this book and I have a pretty decent sense of humor. 
 As much as I wanted to be wowed by Starcrossed, I wasn't. This will be one series that I won't be following.