Divine Rivals Divine Rivals

Publisher Description

When two young rival journalists find love through a magical connection, they must face the depths of hell, in a war among gods, to seal their fate forever.

After centuries of sleep, the gods are warring again. But eighteen-year-old Iris Winnow just wants to hold her family together. Her mother is suffering from addiction and her brother is missing from the front lines. Her best bet is to win the columnist promotion at the Oath Gazette.

To combat her worries, Iris writes letters to her brother and slips them beneath her wardrobe door, where they vanish—into the hands of Roman Kitt, her cold and handsome rival at the paper. When he anonymously writes Iris back, the two of them forge a connection that will follow Iris all the way to the front lines of battle: for her brother, the fate of mankind, and love.

Shadow and Bone meets Lore in Rebecca Ross's Divine Rivals, an epic enemies-to-lovers fantasy novel filled with hope and heartbreak, and the unparalleled power of love.

GENRE
Young Adult
RELEASED
2023
April 4
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
368
Pages
PUBLISHER
St. Martin's Publishing Group
SELLER
Macmillan
SIZE
4.4
MB
AUDIENCE
Grades 8-13

Customer Reviews

mnpick ,

4.5

Writing style is beautiful. Word choice, beautiful. Main characters, love them. Ending, wild.

HKrueg ,

Meh.

I just didn’t like this book. It was so slow and felt aimless at times. The end was the most enthusiastic and left me annoyingly curious of where author takes the duology. I can’t commit to book 2 though, so I may never know.

SLE1996 ,

Good Read!

Based purely on writing style, Rebecca Ross gets an absolute 5/5. Her writing style is poignant, striking, and literally breathtaking at times. There were moments that I had to reread time and time again where I felt my chest swell with the beauty of the words (cheesy, but true!).

However, plot-wise, I would give this book a 3/5. It is a cute romance story that straddles the line between young adult romance and adventure, but I found the fantasy themes to be necessary for only one aspect: the letters. Otherwise, this book could’ve been entirely without fantasy theme and likely had the same effect. For that reason, the world-building felt flat and lifeless to me, and I couldn’t quite picture it in my head.

Overall, I still enjoyed this book and will read some of Ross’ other works - she is a beautiful writer.

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