Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross

🎉My favourite book of 2024!

No god, no creature, no war can come between them.

When two young rival journalists find love through a magical connection, their fate depends on their facing the depths of hell… together.

After centuries of sleep, the gods are warring again…

All eighteen-year-old Iris Winnow wants to do is hold her family together. With a brother on the frontline forced to fight on behalf of the Gods now missing from the frontline and a mother drowning her sorrows, Iris’s best bet is winning the columnist promotion at the Oath Gazette.

But when Iris’s letters to her brother fall into the wrong hands – that of the handsome but cold Roman Kitt, her rival at the paper – an unlikely magical connection forms.

Expelled into the middle of a mystical war, magical typewriters in tow, can their bond withstand the fight for the fate of mankind and, most importantly, love?

Rating: 5/5 ⭐️
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Series: Letters of Enchantment [1/2]
Tropes: gods, rivals to lovers, historical, war, unique magic
Recommend?: YES!
Goodreads Choice Award Winner 2023 YA Fantasy

INFINITY STARS!!

This book has imprinted itself upon my soul. Altered my DNA. I wish to read it for the first time all over again. I don’t know how to explain it, but it made such an impression on me. Single-handedly the most romantic connection I’ve ever encountered.

This book has a unique feel to is as it feels like a historical fiction with a sprinkling of fantastical elements.

There is nothing I love more in a fantasy novel than meddling gods. When they aren’t just an abstract presence, but a character involved in the plot. We don’t get a lot of answers when it comes to the Gods in this book, but I’m hoping for even more in the second book.

This being my 100th book of the year also feels so satisfying as it’s most definitely earned the top book of 2024 spot for me.

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60784546-divine-rivals?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=UQvCOsnNHl&rank=1