With the gods fighting again after centuries of sleep, eighteen-year-old Iris Winnow just wants to keep her family safe. Her mother is fighting addiction, her brother has disappeared from the front lines, and Iris hopes a promotion as a columnist at the Oath Gazette will help. When Iris sparks up a magical correspondence with a stranger, she never imagined her secret pen pal would turn out to be Roman Kitt, her archrival at the paper. But she can't deny the connection she feels, even when Iris enlists to be a war correspondent on the front lines.

Rebecca Ross presents an adorably fun young adult fantasy duology that mixes Greek mythology and World War 1 that hooked me from the start. The enemies-to-lovers story was rather obvious yet still so rewarding. For the most part, Divine Rivals reads like a historical fiction book, so it took me a bit to get the feel of the fantasy world. The cliffhanger ending was so compelling that I immediately went out and bought the second audiobook, Ruthless Vows, which shifts much more into the fantasy side of the story.