Star-Crossed - bookrastinating.com

trade paperback, 347 pages

English language

Published Nov. 14, 2019 by Crown Publishers.

ISBN:: 978-1-9848-2282-6

(2 reviews)

Sometimes even destiny needs a little bit of help.

When childhood sweethearts Justine (Sagittarius and serious skeptic) and Nick (Aquarius and true believer) bump into each other as adults, a life-changing love affair seems inevitable. To Justine, anyway. Especially when she learns Nick is an astrological devotee whose decisions are guided by the stars and, more specifically, by the horoscopes in his favorite magazine. The same magazine Justine happens to write for. As Nick continues to not fall headlong in love with her, Justine decides to take Nick's horoscope--and fate itself--into her own hands. But, of course, Nick is not the only Aquarius making important choices according to what is written in the stars.

Charting the ripple effect of Justine's astrological meddling, Star-Crossed is a delicious, intelligent, and affecting love story about friendship, chance, and how we all navigate the kinds of choices that are hard to face alone.

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Sometimes even destiny needs a little bit of help.

When childhood sweethearts Justine (Sagittarius and serious skeptic) and Nick (Aquarius and true believer) bump into each other as adults, a life-changing love affair seems inevitable. To Justine, anyway. Especially when she learns Nick is an astrological devotee whose decisions are guided by the stars and, more specifically, by the horoscopes in his favorite magazine. The same magazine Justine happens to write for. As Nick continues to not fall headlong in love with her, Justine decides to take Nick's horoscope--and fate itself--into her own hands. But, of course, Nick is not the only Aquarius making important choices according to what is written in the stars.

Charting the ripple effect of Justine's astrological meddling, Star-Crossed is a delicious, intelligent, and affecting love story about friendship, chance, and how we all navigate the kinds of choices that are hard to face alone.

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Ashlee of Jupiter reviewed Star-Crossed by Minnie Darke

Review of 'Star-Crossed' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I really enjoyed this! I assumed the depth of astrology was solely going to stop at ‘star signs’ but was pleasantly surprised with the mention of things like rising signs and houses - I was initially a little annoyed as to why Justine, a Sagittarius, acted like such a Virgo, only for it to later be revealed that she had a Virgo ascendant

Now, my main gripe: Why were the horoscopes directed towards the characters sun signs, and not their rising signs? The ascendant sign sets up the placement of the houses. There was mention in one of Leo’s writings for Aquarius about Mars transiting 8th house, which would only be relevant if the writing was intended for Aquarius Risings - and it is my understanding that horoscopes should be interpreted using a person’s ascendant sign. So… that kind of bugged me, but maybe that’s my pedantic Virgo moon talking

debby_joyblue

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May 22, 2019