I was dreading yet another love triangle, but this one was handled well. They created all kinds of mayhem and the battle scenes were just as awesome as the ones in the first book.I also really liked the addition of Orion. There are also some new villains introduced in this installment. She seems real, even if she is a powerful demigod. I absolutely love Claire (Helen’s bff), and Helen is an awesome MC. I felt that some of it could be trimmed.The entire cast from the first book returns, and they are all just as enjoyable as they were in the first book. By the end of the book it all came together, but I was still left wondering if all that time describing Helen’s nightly descents was really necessary.
Things picked up and started to get interesting when Orion entered the picture, but I still didn’t feel like I was getting any answers. It felt like all I was getting was a few very short scenes before Helen was descending again, and when she descended I didn’t feel like the story was really going anywhere. Throw in a few vengeful gods hell-bent on reenacting the Trojan war and reclaiming the world and things start to get really interesting.When I first started reading the book I was a little underwhelmed. Things seem hopeless until one night, she meets Orion, a descendant of Aphrodite, who has found a way to descend (thanks to Helen’s mother) and help her out. The most aggravating problem is she is powerless when she descends, and she always awakens bloodied and bruised and usually with a few broken bones.
The problem is Helen has no idea where to look or what to do when she is down there. Unfortunately, Helen is the only one of them who can descend into the underworld.
(By the way, if you’ve not read Starcrossed, you may want to skip this review as there may be minor spoilers.)Dreamless picks up not long after the conclusion of the last book, and Helen and the Delos family are trying to figure out how to stop the Furies so Hector can come home without the rest of the family wanting to rip out his throat. When I managed to snag an ARC of it, I was beyond thrilled. Starcrossed was one of my favorite books of 2011, and I was chomping at the bit for Dreamless.
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