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A review by bringmybooks
Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-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? Yes
5.0
Thank you to Edelweiss, Wednesday Books, & Macmillan for the opportunity to read and review this book before it's publication date! This in no way affected my review, opinions are my own.
✨ 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗚 ✨ B̷O̷R̷R̷O̷W̷ B̷Y̷P̷A̷S̷S̷
If you combine the trilogy Daughter of Smoke & Bone, add in a dash of the email communication from You've Got Mail (but make it ENCHANTED TYPEWRITERS), throw in a 1920s vibe, and take the absolute best parts of an enemies to lovers trope, then you've got Divine Rivals. And you're gonna love it.
Having found my interest in this novel coming from her adult fantasy Elements of Cadence duology (A River Enchanted & A Fire Endless), I was a bit nervous to read this, not sure if the parts I loved so much about Cadence would translate to a YA book about dueling newspaper columnists during a war of the Gods - but I really could not have been more wrong!
I loved the characters, I loved the development of the plot, I loved the romance, I loved the atmosphere, I loved the plot, and I cannot WAIT to read the next one in 2024!
(As cliffhangers go, it's pretty brutal ... BUT in a way I'm excited, because having read this as an eBook, I'll get to do an audio reread of it before the sequel comes out and I've heard the audio is ... dare I say it? Divine.)
✨ 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗚 ✨ B̷O̷R̷R̷O̷W̷ B̷Y̷P̷A̷S̷S̷
If you combine the trilogy Daughter of Smoke & Bone, add in a dash of the email communication from You've Got Mail (but make it ENCHANTED TYPEWRITERS), throw in a 1920s vibe, and take the absolute best parts of an enemies to lovers trope, then you've got Divine Rivals. And you're gonna love it.
Having found my interest in this novel coming from her adult fantasy Elements of Cadence duology (A River Enchanted & A Fire Endless), I was a bit nervous to read this, not sure if the parts I loved so much about Cadence would translate to a YA book about dueling newspaper columnists during a war of the Gods - but I really could not have been more wrong!
I loved the characters, I loved the development of the plot, I loved the romance, I loved the atmosphere, I loved the plot, and I cannot WAIT to read the next one in 2024!
(As cliffhangers go, it's pretty brutal ... BUT in a way I'm excited, because having read this as an eBook, I'll get to do an audio reread of it before the sequel comes out and I've heard the audio is ... dare I say it? Divine.)
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Violence, War, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Medical content, Kidnapping, Classism, Grief, and Medical trauma
Minor: Sexual content