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.
When I started reading this story I felt that there were certain things that reminded me of An Enchanted River by this same author, but they have only been a little on the subject of gods, because later we began to know and live the day to day of Iris and Roman, a couple of fledgling journalists who are competing for a position at the newspaper where they work. This will make them rivals and that will make them mess with each other constantly.
But a war between the gods will make them wonder who they are and what they really want, especially who they want. Iris and Kitt have made me cry at very sad moments in their lives, and they are the kind of characters that deserve a happily ever after for all they will have to suffer and lose. The grief that each one carries and the way certain people use it to control them has made me very angry.
When this pair of journalists are hit by the war, they will leave us heartbroken and wanting to read the second book, because the author leaves us with a cliffhanger that will make it very difficult for us to wait to find out the end of the story of this pair of characters and the rest that won our hearts during this journey.
I couldn't be happier to have read this story where tragedy strikes without warning, love is built little by little and magic will have an important place in the journey of these lovely characters.
This was a very emotional, gripping and lovely book to read, and can’t recommend enough.
Rebecca Ross grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, where she soon became a voracious reader and longed to find a portal to Narnia. That quest eventually led her to the University of Georgia, where she graduated with her degree in English. Before she dared to take her writing seriously, she worked at a Colorado dude ranch, as a school librarian, and as a live-time captionist for a college. At the end of 2014, she had an epiphany where she saw herself as a seventy-year-old mortal who had never dedicated herself to writing, despite the fact that it had always been her first love. The image was striking–a regret in the making–and Rebecca began to follow her childhood aspiration of writing a novel and becoming published, as impossible as it sounded. Working a full-time job, she carved out the time to write on weekends, in the evenings, in the pre-dawn hours, and on lunch breaks. Page by page, a novel soon came together. It was a messy first attempt of a fantasy book, riddled with cliches and tropes, but a good trial run. On a cold January night in 2015, she began to write The Queen’s Rising after envisioning a young woman sitting in a sun-drenched library with a stern (but handsome) young man. Rebecca had no other choice but to devote herself to this scene, discovering the story, the characters, and the world as she wrote. Within 48 days, she had a first draft. Little did she know that Brienna’s story was destined to change her life. Rebecca is now the New York Times best selling and acclaimed author of fantasy novels for both teen and adult readers alike, and her works include Divine Rivals, The Queen’s Rising, The Queen’s Resistance, Sisters of Sword & Song, Dreams Lie Beneath, A River Enchanted, and A Fire Endless. Her books have been published in thirteen languages, reaching readers around the globe, and have received starred trade reviews. A coffee addict with a penchant for vintage typewriters, old postage stamps, and all things hand-lettered, she lives with her husband and a frisbee-addicted Australian Shepherd in the Appalachian foothills of Northeast Georgia, where she grows an abundance of weeds in her garden as well as wildflowers and new story ideas. Come say hello on Instagram @beccajross.
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