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Les Oiseaux du temps by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar
135 reviews
chris_reads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Graphic: Forced institutionalization, War, and Death
Moderate: Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Body horror
Minor: Suicide attempt, Torture, Animal death, Confinement, Genocide, and Murder
rwsmith's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
the story is told almost entirely through letters that two time traveling agents write each other. they start as rivals, and slowly lower their guards and begin to fall for each other, trying to keep their relationship a secret.
i love the implications given when the story is told through their letters this way. the letters are at once straightforward and poetic. the writing of the whole novel is beautiful - tactile and soft and pointed and mysterious at the same time.
i'll definitely be reading this again. 5/5. its only a 4-hour audiobook, only a couple hundred pages. if you have an afternoon, there's no reason not to pick it up.
Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Violence
Minor: Medical content, Grief, Genocide, Suicide, and Colonisation
ludmireads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and War
augustar14's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
Moderate: Violence, Vomit, Suicide attempt, War, and Grief
Minor: Stalking, Murder, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Blood, Gun violence, Genocide, Colonisation, Abandonment, and Death
pacifickat's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
-Red
This book is well crafted, brutal, and poetic. It also, for the most part, is not what I would have considered my kind of book, and I struggled to read past the first confusing chapters. I was not expecting the literary density and convoluted phrasing of the letters between the two main characters. It felt like work to focus and hold on to the plot. Epistolary works often require a bit of patience. But boy am I glad I stuck with it! This story has a great payoff, even if it leaves a lot unexplained in the worldbuilding and open for the reader to interpret and imagine.
Graphic: Violence, Body horror, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Torture
Moderate: Animal death, Grief, and Murder
Minor: Stalking and War
Poisoning, sexual innuendosoftgalaxy's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
The writing is decadent and poetic. I’m not going to lie and say that I completely understood the sci-fi elements, but it didn’t matter to be honest.
This book had me silently screaming. Sapphic enemies to lovers plus time-travel is just *chef’s kiss*.
I want to read this again and again. Highly recommend.
Graphic: Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Animal death, Body horror, Blood, and Violence
Moderate: War, Murder, and Torture
emzhay's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Confinement, Murder, and Suicide attempt
katilh's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
It seemed so interesting but unfortunately fell short, which made plot points confusing and kind of boring at times. I felt it only got really good as i started to ignore the confusion, but i'd have much prefered some more detail in that sense.
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death, and Body horror
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, War, and Suicide attempt
Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic
longicauda's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence
tearoyale's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Suicide attempt, War, Body horror, Blood, Violence, Gore, Murder, and Suicide
Moderate: Confinement and Grief