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Love and War continues shortly after the first book Alex and Eliza .  Alex and Eliza newlyweds struggling to make ends meet. Eliza is dreaming of the day they can move out of her family home and start a family of their own and Alex is ready to go to end the war and make something of himself. While I enjoyed this book, it wasn't nearly as goof as the first and knowing that there will be a third and final book now, I believe that majority of this book could have been condensed and just added to the final book. I feel this series would have been better as a duology. That's just my feeling having read the second book, it might change once I have read the final book, but for now I feel like this book was mostly filler that could have been condensed. While the storyline dragged, I loved the characters as much as I did in book one. They still give me all the feels and although I am not married, I feel this book definitely portrayed a newlywed couple perfectly. Not...

This book was inspired by the Hamilton musical but the love story does not follow the route the musical took. I'm not American, nor do I pretend to know much about American politics but I do know that not a lot was known about Alex and Eliza's relationship so who is to say which version is closer to the truth. What I do know is that I loved this version. I have listened to the Hamilton soundtrack countless times and I love it a little more each time but it was still very easy for me to read this book as a historical romance and not compare it to the musical and have that effect my rating of this book. From their first interaction I was hooked. Getting to read from both their perspectives made it all that more enjoyable. My favourite love stories are definitely the ones where we get to read from both perspectives so I am glad that was the case with this book. Both Alex and Eliza's parts were fun to read and I have to admit I laughed out loud more than once w...