But ultimately, its her superpowers that make her strong, not her sense of will. She’s willing to do the classic self-sacrifice which puts her next to Katniss and Tris on the scale of SFPs. Helen borders on being a strong female protagonist.
We’ll just keep the tension going until the end of the trilogy. Of course, Helen wasn’t going to make any decisions concerning her heart in this book. Why does YA romance have to be about choosing between two equally hot guys? Why can’t it be about struggling through the hard times, no matter what? Authors seem to think a novel isn’t complete without their female protagonist having qualms over who she loves. I’m not going to pick a ‘team’ as it was obvious that Orion was just being used as a plot device to progress the novel. Helen was either with Lucas or with Orion, not both. What I did like about this love triangle was the lack of ambiguity. Yay, another YA novel with a love triangle. It held my interest, I just wished the same level of action/adventure was present in the first half.Īs I said, Orion is introduced to counter Lucas. I don’t think it would be a leap to call one particularly chapter gory. So much was going on, I found it hard to keep track of all the characters! There was a lot of battling and maiming and hurting and killing. The pacing for the final third of the book was manic in comparison. It felt like neither Helen or Orion, her new love interest sent to the Underworld purely to protect Helen (he does little else), were really accomplishing anything of much importance until I’d read 350 pages.
Helen was a descendant of Zeus, not Hades, so it seemed like a convenient power for her to have.
She seemed to have these omnipotent powers of control, when it was previously stated that no powers were available in the Underworld. I didn’t really understand the landscape of the Underworld, or how she navigated it. For the first two thirds, Helen is venturing into the Underworld to try and find the furies. ‘Dreamless’, in hindsight, was a very repetitive book. A more apt title for this book would be ‘Sleepless’, as Helen battles on the brink of death to find the haggard sisters, whilst still having to deal with the wakened world of Nantucket and a boyfriend who’s forbidden to her by the laws of nature. In the sequel to ‘Starcrossed’, Helen must venture to the Underworld in order to complete her quest of freeing the furies from the cycle of vengeance.
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