✨REVIEW✨ 

Hazel and James, Aubrey and Colette. Two love stories for the ages, both brought together and torn apart by World War I. And their stories are being told by none other than Aphrodite, the goddess of love, spinning their tales for - and showing how they intersect with - Ares, Apollo, and Hephaestus. 📚

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Oh my heart. This book! Beautiful and sad, funny and crushing. I loved both the romances, each couple is perfect for each other. I loved the Greek gods, each certain they knew the full story, each shown their worldview is incomplete. 📚

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So much is covered in LOVELY WAR. Not only the stuff you'd expect covered in a wartime historical fiction novel - love, loss, PTSD, friends and families and longing letters. But it also covers what it might have been like to be a Black American in the war. Aubrey's story is one I have never seen in fiction, though I have admittedly not read many novels set in this era. But LOVELY WAR lays it all out there. Not only is he fighting on the actual war front, but he's fighting within his own army, too. It's not sugarcoated, and it's not a subplot. 📚

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The Greek god framing did feel a bit awkward at times, but the way that thread ends made it worth it. Swoon. I'm already looking forward to rereading this book. 📚