So This Is War

Meghan Quinn’s novel So This is War is a contemporary romance novel and the fifth and final installment in Quinn’s Vancouver Agitators series, which falls under the sports romance subgenre. The first-person points of view of the main characters, Levi Posey and Wylie Wood, trace the evolution of Levi and Wylie’s romance. When Wylie says she’s dropping out of graduate school to pursue art, her dad, Coach Will Wood of the Vancouver Agitators hockey team, forces her to work as his defenseman Levi’s personal assistant. Levi and Wylie are attracted to each other but can’t act on their desires because they’re beholden to Wylie’s dad. Their inability to pursue a relationship incites the narrative conflict and spurs the novel’s thematic explorations of the Power Dynamics in Relationships, Identity and Self-Discovery Through Love, and the Balance Between Personal and Professional Life.

This guide refers to the original 2024 Hot-Lanta Publishing paperback edition of the novel.

Content Warning: The source text and this guide describe sexual violence and exploitation.

Plot Summary

Twenty-one-year-old Wylie Wood meets her father Coach Will Wood’s defenseman Levi Posey at a hotel bar.