Divine Rivals
Two rival journalists write to each other through an enchanted typewriter without knowing who is on the other end, while a war between gods swallows the countryside. Old-fashioned in the best sense, and the letters are genuinely lovely. On the House's scale it rates 1 for spice (a door, closed), 5 for how much of the book is the romance, and 5 for craft. Readers who want rivals-to-lovers with no spice and prose worth slowing down for.
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How it rates
- Author
- Rebecca Ross
- Series
- Letters of Enchantment, book 1 of 2 · series complete
- Spice
- Spice 1 out of 5, A door, closed1/5 · A door, closed
- Romance
- 5/5
- Plot
- 4/5
- Worldbuilding
- 4/5
- Darkness
- 3/5
- Writing craft
- 5/5
- Burn
- Slow burn
- Point of view
- third person, dual
- Ending
- Happy ever after · cliffhanger
- Setting
- A war-torn country modelled on the 1920s
- Audience
- Young adult
- Pages
- 408
On the spice rating Closed door throughout. The intimacy is entirely in the correspondence. How the scale works.
Content warnings war, death, injury, alcoholism.
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