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High school romance is tough—even for a bona fide love goddess. Can Cupid succeed as a mortal matchmaker?
When Eros (aka Cupid) is expelled from Olympus for defying Zeus after falling in love with Orion, she is banished to what she believes to be hell. We call it New Jersey. If she ever wants to go back to the comforts of her old life, she will have to find love for three couples—without using her powers.
Eros, now calling herself True, immediately identifies her first project in Charlie and believes finding him love will be a piece of cake. Charlie is new at school and eager to break out of his old image of band geek, so it’s lucky for him when he falls in with the right crowd on his first day. But music is still his passion. That is, until he meets Katrina...
Katrina is floundering after the death of her father and takes refuge with a boy who, while not entirely supportive, will be there when she needs him, unlike her mother. Too bad True thinks any girl Charlie talks to is perfect for him. Can she get out of her own way and help Charlie and Katrina connect, or will she be stuck in New Jersey forever?
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Blending ancient mythology with contemporary romance, Scott (the He's So/She's So trilogy) offers a clever story about the difficulty of finding true love. After spending 3,000 years pining for her "soul mate" Orion, who had been turned into a constellation, Eros, Aphrodite's daughter (yes, daughter), manages to pull him from the sky. Their blissful reunion is short-lived. A displeased Zeus imprisons Orion and banishes Eros to present-day New Jersey; she can't return to Mount Olympus until she has matched three human couples without using her powers. Plenty of comedy follows as Eros and her mother adjust to the discomforts of Earth, including the unpleasant reality that human bodies require more upkeep than godly ones. Eros finds it difficult to play matchmaker as two human teens, Charlie and Katrina, get tangled in ill-fated relationships. Readers, especially those familiar with the underlying Greek myths, will relish the intermingling of classic figures and modern-day teens. The messy relationships will strike a familiar chord, and a cliffhanger twist will whet appetites for the next book in the True Love series. Ages 12 up.
