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adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
The center of this quietly fraught and achingly earnest story is a love affair in letters, sent between magical typewriters by two ambitious rivals for the same newspaper position. I’ve heard it described as You’ve Got Mail meets Dramione, and while I definitely enjoyed both aspects, Iris and Roman truly have a love of their own, and I was rather dreamily swept away by this magical realist tale, the first in a duology set amidst a WWI-reminiscent war between two gods.
Content Warnings
Graphic: War
Moderate: Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Minor: Ableism, Sexual content