"This captivating production will leave listeners wanting more."- AudioFile
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.
A Macmillan Audio production from Wednesday Books.
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- ISBN: 9781250883575
- File size: 312071 KB
- Duration: 10:50:08
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Publisher's Weekly
February 6, 2023
In this affecting fantasy duology opener from Ross (the Elements of Cadence duology), 18-year-old Iris Winnow’s life is upended when long-slumbering gods wake and begin battling for control of the fictional land of Cambria, using human armies as proxies. After Iris’s brother, Forest, enlists to fight, and her mother is fired from her job for drinking while at work, Iris must quit school to help make ends meet. Her new writing position at local newspaper Oath Gazette doesn’t pay much, prompting Iris to campaign for a promotion. That won’t be easy, however, given the talent and connections of her 19-year-old rival, Roman Kitt. At night, Iris writes to Forest using an old typewriter and, since he has no mailing address, slips the letters under her wardrobe door, after which they mysteriously disappear. Iris hopes that Forest is somehow receiving her correspondence, but in truth, Roman is. Moved by her words, Roman responds under a pseudonym, triggering a chain of life-altering events. Ross elevates predictable plotting with inventive worldbuilding, nuanced characterizations, and prose by turns dreamy and atmospherically tense. The result is an ardent romance and a harrowing exploration of war’s horrors and heartbreaks. The protagonists cue as white. Ages 13–up. Agent: Suzie Townsend, New Leaf Literary & Media. -
AudioFile Magazine
Rebecca Norfolk and Alex Wingfield narrate the first in a fantasy series. As warring gods tear apart their world, young newspaper reporters Iris and Roman take their rivalry from the newsroom to the front. Iris slips letters to her missing brother into her closet, where they magically disappear. When she mysteriously receives a reply, a relationship develops between the two correspondents. Norfolk narrates the bulk of the story from Iris's point of view. Her emotional portrayal of the older teen captures Iris's myriad experiences; however, discerning ears may be distracted by some spots of uneven production quality. Wingfield's style is well suited to Roman's snippets of narration. This captivating production will leave listeners wanting more. A.L.S.M. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine
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