This is not one of those sappy love stories -- that I find myself reading more and more — that I keep posting about. I mean, of course there’s romance in it, duh, but it’s not the main focus, I don’t think. The concept of love is, but not the romantic interest in itself.
You see, this is a story about Isadora, who doesn’t really have a last name as she is the daughter of Isis and Osiris, gods of Egypt. Isis is the goddess of motherhood and life and Osiris, the god of the underworld, i.e. death and the afterlife. She gives us insight to not only the stories and backgrounds of the Egyptian gods and goddesses, but also tells her story with their personality added into the stories. We see Isis’ endless love and affection for her children and the people of the world but also her temper. We see how Osiris is not only Isadora’s dad, but also this unfeeling — or at least he doesn’t show them — god who rules, well, the underworld. We learn about Horus — or Whorus, whichever you prefer — and his idiot, drunk wife Hathor, and her creepy-ass brother, Anubis.
Isadora is desperate to leave her house and her mother’s incessant mothering (same, dude). She feels insignificant in the house and the room where so many of her mother’s children have lived in, where she is just passing through until the new child comes in, which happens every twenty years. And when her mother comes in one morning to reveal that she’s pregnant, Isadora’s world falls apart. I mean, she wanted to leave, absolutely, but she didn’t want her mother to replace her so quickly! She was supposed to have a few more years until she was replaced in her own home. She doesn’t want to care for her mother’s new little worshipper!
After a few days of suffering through her mother’s smothering, she finally sees an opportunity to leave. Isis was having some dreams that seemed to see Isadora in danger, and she knew how much weight her mother put into dreams. And so she saw the opportunity and took it. She started talking to her mom about leaving for her own safety, of course playing the card of the nervous child, when inside she was ecstatic! Her brother, Sirus, lives in San Diego, California in the USA, so so far away from Egypt and living in somebody else’s past and stories. She wanted her own and she was finally going to get it.
The only thing is, that in San Diego, it’s so cloudy that she can’t see the stars at night. She can’t see Orion, her constellation that has always brought her comfort.
In San Diego, she meets Tyler. This awkward, gangly, bubbly girl, who quickly becomes her best friend. She introduces her to Scott, her boyfriend… and Ry. Oh, Ry. This beautiful, beautiful greek boy — Isis hates greeks, score! The only problem is, that Isadora has sworn she’d never fall in love.
I loved this book. LOVED IT. Truly. The whole thing of adding to the whole history of the Egyptian gods and goddesses, I love it. She used the history already there, and manipulated it to make it fit, somehow, into modern society. I love it. I want an Orion in my life. I want to be able to know what it is I’m actually really good at and love it. Ayyayayyy.
Anyways, this book is absolutely recommended. READ IT.
I LOVE YOU ALL. I LOVE YOU ALL. I LOVE YOU ALL.
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