![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Along the way, it suggests that while war and its devastation cycles through history, the forces of art and love remain steady, eternal, and life-sustaining. Berry’s evocative novel starts slow but gains steam as the stories flesh out. James and Aubrey witness horrors on and off the battlefield, and Hazel and Colette cling to each other during the best of times, such as when Hazel has the opportunity for a brief reunion with James, and the worst, as when Aubrey goes missing. ![]() She's a shy and talented pianist he's a newly minted soldier with dreams of becoming an architect. There, she meets Colette, who is still reeling from her wartime losses, and introduces her to Aubrey, who quickly steals Colette’s heart. Lovely War Julie Berry 4.24 48,540 ratings9,282 reviews Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Fiction (2019) It's 1917, and World War I is at its zenith when Hazel and James first catch sight of each other at a London party. After James reports to duty, Hazel follows, taking a wartime volunteer position in France. To show her husband, Hephaestus, the real meaning of love and its connection to war and art, Aphrodite (with the help of Apollo, Hades, and Ares) tells the emotion-packed WWI saga of two besotted couples drawn together by music and war: British pianist Hazel and soldier James African-American jazz musician Aubrey and Colette, a Belgian war orphan with a remarkable singing voice. Berry ( The Passion of Dolssa) brings to life wartime horrors and passions with commentary from Olympian gods in this love story filled with vivid historical detail. ![]()
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