Lovestruck
No. of pages 352
Published: 2019
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There are 352 pages in this book.
It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.
This book was published in 2019 by North Star Editions .
Kate Watson is a young adult writer, wife, mother of three, and the tenth of thirteen children. Originally from Canada, she attended college in the States and holds a BA in Philosophy from Brigham Young University. A lover of travel, speaking in accents, and experiencing new cultures, she has also lived in Israel, Brazil, and the American South, and she now calls Arizona home.
"A humorous and endearing look at the throes of predestinated teenage love." --Kirkus Reviews
"[P]lenty of cheeky fun to be had here." --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
"Watson does a wonderful job exploring themes of fate, choice, and what it means to love someone." --Breeana Shields, author of Poison's Kiss
"Quirky, witty, and charming, this novel is brimming with heart--and it's sure to capture yours." --Joanna Ruth Meyer, author of Beneath the Haunting Sea and Echo North
"Equal parts adventure, fate-tastic love story, and mythological quest all rolled into one completely bingeable book." --Tiana Smith, author of Match Me if You Can
"With a pitch perfect voice and characters that feel real, Lovestruck explores the nuances of love, especially first love, and what it means to really care about someone." --Katie A. Nelson, author of The Duke of Bannerman Prep
"An immortal cupid-in-training falls in love with a human after she accidentally sticks herself with an arrow.Sixteen-year-old Kalixta has been skeptical of her cupid calling since she experienced the Thunderclap realizing, "in the end, the Fates will decide what happens, no matter what I do." She questions the marriage of her parents, Eros and Psyche, and the millennia-old patterns the gods are stuck in. However, when she becomes spellbound to Benicio, a bass-playing Mexican-American who was her original target, Kali enrolls in a mortal high school in Arizona while trying to decipher the riddle posed by the Oracle to regain her heart. With the help of her best friend, Deya (daughter of Aphrodite and an Amazonian river god), and Artemis, the goddess of the hunt herself, Kali must find a balance between the arrow's pull toward Ben and her friendship with her ex-boyfriend Hector (son of Apollo and Calliope). Watson (Shoot the Moon, 2018, etc.) creates a world where Greek mythological characters have Bond-worthy gadgets, can change their appearances at will, and are all-knowing when it comes to both Hellenic and contemporary pop culture. While acknowledging the existence of non-Greek gods, Watson gives the Greeks control of "most everything in the Western World" yet achieves diversity by incorporating people (and gods) of color into the story. A humorous and endearing look at the throes of predestined teenage love. (Fantasy. 14-18)" - Kirkus Reviews
"Mythical matchmaker in training Kali (short for Kalixta) has had little interest in her duties as an Erote, making people fall in love via well-aimed arrows, ever since the Thunderclap, a pairing assignment that went disastrously wrong. When the sixteen-year-old (in immortal years) accidentally pricks herself and falls in love with a mortal, shes even more angry at what she considers to be a pretty lousy destiny, and her fury trumps her fatalism as she decides to defy her supposed future; the Oracle tells her it is possible but shes got to fulfill three difficult tasks. Watson offers a deep dive into Greek mythology, drawing on a range of stories familiar and lesser known and casting a variety of gods, goddesses, and demigods as secondary characters, but Kalis irreverent narration makes this more of an entertaining riff than a lesson on Greek mythology. Kali herself is a firecracker, funny, bold, and defiant, but even she cant fill in some of the major holes in the plot, especially when the revelation at the end throws all the rules to the side and upends the entire premise. Theres still plenty of cheeky fun to be had here, and Kalis happy endinga life with a mortal love averted and a new romance with a fellow divine beingis well deserved." - KQG, The Bulletin Center of Children's Books
"Kali is a Cupid, but shes the furthest thing from a pudgy, diaper-wearing baby anyone could imagine (blame the Romans for that one). Shes the daughter of Eros and Psyche, the star-crossed couple of Greek myth. As the immortal child of the god of love, shes been drafted to make unlucky-in-love humans fall for each other, but her hearts not in the job; shed rather be a muse. That heart also belongs to Benicio, a mortal musician she was supposed to assign to a human girl, though she accidentally nicked herself with the arrow. Immortal matches arent reversible, so Kali is stuck in lovewith Ben and with her immortal best friend, Hector. Although her parents are surprisingly understanding about it, taking a mortal form to be with Ben makes Kali want to challenge her destiny more and more. Watson is a YA veteran (Shoot the Moon, 2018), but this fresh take on the Greek myths (hard to do, post-Riordan) is fun, funny, and thoughtprovoking. It will hook readers everywhere." - Stacey Comfort, Booklist