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| Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross |
Book title:
Divine Rivals
Author:
Rebecca Ross
Genre: YA
fantasy
Published: April
4, 2023
368 pages
My rating: 4.5/5
“I think we
all wear armor. I think those who don’t are fools, risking the pain of being
wounded by the sharp edges of the world, over and over again. But if I’ve
learned anything from those fools, it is that to be vulnerable is a strength
most of us fear. It takes courage to let down your armor, to welcome people to
see you as you are.”
Eighteen-year-old
Iris Winnow dreams of becoming a writer, but right now she needs to hold her
crumbling family together. With her brother fighting on behalf of gods on the
frontline and her mother turning to liquor, Iris strives to win a promotion as the
columnist at the Oath Gazette. At night, she writes letters to her
brother and slides them under a wardrobe door, where they vanish. But instead
of finding her brother, the letters end up in the hands of Iris’s rival at the
newspaper, handsome and cold Roman Kitt. When he anonymously writes back, a
magical connection ties their lives together.
Divine
Rivals is the first
book in Rebecca Ross’s duology Letters of Enchantment. This was a great,
fast-paced young adult fantasy. The book is set in a fantasy world where gods have awakened
from their long sleep and are again waging a war against each other, using
people and magical creatures as their soldiers. After a devastating incident,
Iris gets a job as a war correspondent and exposes the truth to her hometown's residents, who have thus far been unconcerned about the war raging
outside of their borough. She continues writing letters to her mysterious pen
pal, slowly falling for him, until Roman arrives at the war zone, and Iris’s
feelings become conflicted: who does she like more, the unknown letter writer
or her fiercest rival?
