Marketing Copy : Helen Hamilton has always known she’s different from the other teens on tiny Nantucket, but it’s not until Lucas Delos moves to town that she realizes just how special she is. Facing Lucas in the halls of high school, Helen’s possessed by a powerful need to kill him--and she almost succeeds. But when their mutual hatred of each other transforms into desire, Helen and Lucas discover they are both Scions--descendants of Greek gods--and that their two families have for centuries been engaged in a deadly blood feud. As Lucas teaches Helen to use her powers, which include flying, controlling lightning, and an immunity to weapons (in addition to her gorgeous face, which she’s inherited from a certain namesake whose own face “launched a thousand ships”), the two grow ever closer--but can never be together until they find a way around the curse that’s destined to keep them apart."Starcrossed" is a fast paced action adventure, romantic mythological story. Yes, that sounds like a lot in one book but as page after page goes by in this 500 page novel you will experience it all. Helen and Lucas are wonderfully written characters and Lucas's love for Helen is warm and genuine. One can't help root for them to be able to defy their fates. Lucas's family and Helen's friends are terrific co-stars and I enjoyed the budding romances there too.
Josephine Angelini has written an amazingly complex book. Although quite long I never lost interest and honestly I was not prepared for the twist near the end. I had hoped it was a stand alone but now I will anxiously await book two. Readers familiar with Greek Mythology will love this and those not familiar may choose to do some further reading.
It will be very surprising to not hear in reviews that there are many similarities between "Starcrossed" and "Twilight" and to tell you the truth they are hard to ignore. However, this does not distract from the fact that "Starcrossed" is an engrossing and original story based on Greek mythology. Recommended for YA fans of mythology and romance. Read as an ebook arc courtesy of Harper Collins via Netgalley.
Publisher's description: "Janie Gorman wants to be normal. The problem with that: she's not. She's smart and creative and a little bit funky. She's also an unwilling player in her parents' modern-hippy, let's-live-on-a-goat-farm experiment (regretfully, instigated by a younger, much more enthusiastic Janie). This, to put it simply, is not helping Janie reach that "normal target." She has to milk goats every day…and endure her mother's pseudo celebrity in the homemade-life, crunchy mom blogosphere. Goodbye the days of frozen lasagna and suburban living, hello crazy long bus ride to high school and total isolation--and hovering embarrassments of all kinds. The fresh baked bread is good…the threat of homemade jeans, not so much." 
Since the day Cat was attacked by one of her brother's friends she has closed herself off from family and friends. Being raised by an aunt who turned a blind eye to the attack and believing her brother saw it and did nothing has ruined their relationship and she has cut herself off from her best friend, Patrick and all her girlfriends. After Patrick is grossly and brutally attacked and is lying in the hospital in a coma, Cat becomes determined to find out who did this as she is convinced the police won't. 
At the start of Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt I almost put the book down. Doug Swieteck (a character from The Wednesday Wars) is beaten up by his brother for a signed Joe Pepitone baseball cap (the first thing Doug ever owned that was not a hand-me-down)and quietly admits to his other brother beating him up before he's drafted into the army and to his dad having "quick hands." However I kept going and proceeded to read the book in one day. Doug moves to a small town in the Catskill Mountains and has life changing experiences. He befriends a girl and a librarian/artist, gets a job, finds caring teachers and develops an appreciation of the art of John James Audobon. The librarian helps Doug understand Audobon and the plates of paintings of birds on display in the library. His job delivering groceries introduces him to the townspeople including a writer who owns one of the Audobon paintings sold out of the book in the library (Doug begins a mission to have all the plates returned).Doug's brother is accused of robbing a hardware store and the grocery store and Doug needs to deal with the changing attitudes of the townspeople and school staff as they assume he is guilty by association. There is so much going on here and Schmidt had me rooting for Doug throughout the book. There are twists and turns (spoilers I can't discuss) and you too will root for Doug. This is an amazing book and I love it. If you haven't read The Wednesday Wars read that one now as this one is not being published until April. Read as an ebook arc courtesy of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt via Netgalley.
Strange things are happening to Toby including being found naked in a dingo pen. When Reuben and Father Ramon try to convince him that he is a werewolf neither Toby nor his mom will believe it. However, when Toby is kidnapped by a group of people who abuse werewolves by making money off of them fighting and destroying others, Toby begins to believe. 
Publisher's book description : "Bridget Duke is the uncontested ruler of her school. The meanest girl with the biggest secret insecurities. And when new girl Anna Judge arrives, things start to fall apart for Bridget: friends don’t worship as attentively, teachers don’t fall for her wide-eyed “who me?” look, expulsion looms ahead and the one boy she’s always loved--Liam Ward--can barely even look at her anymore.