The lovely war5/24/2023 “Do you know what it’s like,” she says, “to spend eternity embedded in every single love story – the fleeting and the true, the trivial and the everlasting? I am elbow deep in love, working in passion the way artists work in watercolors. Early on, the goddess utters a powerful statement challenging common portrayals of her as shallow and feckless: A gauntlet is thrown and the larger story unfolds as Aphrodite makes her case for the importance of love and the struggles she suffers from supporting it. Lovely War opens in 1942 with a surprise: three denizens of Mount Olympus – Aphrodite, Ares, and Hephaestus – meet in a hotel under less than auspicious circumstances. There is nothing to suggest fantasy from the cover, but rest assured there is something extra special in this narrative: a smart spin that makes the drama all that much more enjoyable. You have a young woman in period dress, a photo of WWI soldiers in the background, and a statue of the Eiffel Tower encircled with biplanes in the woman’s hands. Lovely War, Julie Berry ( Greenwillow 978-3-9, $18.99, 468pp, hc) March 2019.įrom the cover, Lovely War by Julie Berry appears to be the historical novel that it is.
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