📖Recommend for Grades 9 and up📖
by Julie Berry
It’s
1942, and a stylish couple makes their way into a hotel room where the Greek
God Hephaestus finds them. It turns out; the couple are Greek Gods as well,
Aphrodite and Ares, to be exact. Hephaestus is not happy to see his wife with
another man, but Aphrodite spends the night telling a story about how love and
war go together. The story is of four mortals, two couples, during World War I
and how each one meets and falls and in love. More importantly, how the war and
the gods played a role in their story.
An
enjoyable historical fiction a story within a story. Readers may or may not
understand what is going on with the gods and their time, but the story they
tell is lovely. Berry has crafted an intriguing story about four people during
the First World War and how it affects them individually and as a whole.
