{"id":11817,"date":"2020-03-31T10:47:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T15:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=11817"},"modified":"2020-03-31T15:54:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T20:54:19","slug":"lovely-war-is-a-good-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/11817","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Lovely War&#8217; is a good read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>by Mari Pizzini\u2013<\/strong> Spring Break, Corona-cation, or whatever you want to call the last few weeks has been pretty scary, but also pretty boring. However, as an English major I\u2019ve found this time to be pretty darn good for catching up on some \u201csummer\u201d reads. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2020\/03\/lovelywarphoto-400x400.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2020\/03\/lovelywarphoto-400x400.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2020\/03\/lovelywarphoto-200x200.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2020\/03\/lovelywarphoto.jpeg 488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Julie\nBerry\u2019s <em>Lovely War<\/em> has all the\ncomponents I am usually interested in: history of the first and second world\nwars, some type of romance, magic or the supernatural (in this case, mainly\nGreek mythology), and a chronological storyline.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bingo:\na pretty neatly packed book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When\nI started reading, I was honestly confused for the first three pages. The\nstoryline just wasn\u2019t what I was expecting, but I chose to give the book\nanother chance and continue reading. In my opinion, that was a great choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nepic, fast-and-furious love story was too quickly ended by the call to war, but\nthat allowed the story to morph into <em>two <\/em>love\nstories. The more the merrier, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aphrodite,\ngoddess of love, did her part while Ares, god of war, did his. The novel showed\nthe clash between these two opposite forces from two different perspectives: gods\nand mortals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As\nthe novel came to an end, Apollo, god of art, and Hades, god of the Underworld,\ncame to play their roles. PTSD, the importance of art and music, race and\nsocial structure, and the power of love and war meshed to build one pretty\nincredible story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\nwon\u2019t lie, there was a storyline that I was completely uninterested in until it\nmerged with its other half. For that story, I skimmed its chapters for the\nfirst 80 pages of the book. Otherwise, I was pretty enthralled with the novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall,\nI\u2019d give <em>Lovely War <\/em>8 of 10 piano\nkeys, and you\u2019ll just have to read the book to know what that means.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Mari Pizzini\u2013 Spring Break, Corona-cation, or whatever you want to call the last few weeks has been pretty scary, but also pretty boring. However, as an English major I\u2019ve found this time to be pretty darn good for catching up on some \u201csummer\u201d reads. Julie Berry\u2019s Lovely War has all the components I am&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":11818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11819,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11817\/revisions\/11819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}