A review by yanners
Lovely War by Julie Berry

3.0

I can finally understand how tormented Ares felt (at least when he was acting all grumpy and moody at the beginning). I can’t believe I actually entertained all those pages of instalove and supposed heartache because long-distance relationships where the guy has the tendency to not reply to the girl’s letters which creates misunderstandings that he has died but I guess that just means I have a stone for a heart. I was pinning my hopes on the fact that more people would die (preferably James or Aubrey) but of course death traipsed all over the place but there because it would be sacrilege if any of their love stories ended there.

The single redeeming element was how the ideas of war, love, music and death was interwoven into both couples’ story which made the whole thing slightly more tolerable. And of course, the really weird ending which culminated to a reciprocated romance between Hephaestus and Aphrodite which made me perk up slightly. 3 stars