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katialena's review against another edition
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
quackenreleased's review against another edition
4.0
I don't even know where to begin with how much I enjoyed this book! The turns of phrase and call outs to many of my favorite things (Come on... Shakespeare -and- Eifel 65 in the same book? I'm immediately sold.) are all phenomenal.
The book's only downfall is that it is a little difficult to follow in the first dozen pages or so, but once you get the flow of what is happening its so good.
A deep an beautiful love story though time, space, and the multiverse that is at turns funny, sad, and absolutely wonderful.
The book's only downfall is that it is a little difficult to follow in the first dozen pages or so, but once you get the flow of what is happening its so good.
A deep an beautiful love story though time, space, and the multiverse that is at turns funny, sad, and absolutely wonderful.
niamhgill's review against another edition
4.0
oh to fall in love through letters throughout time
this was very good, the prose is beautiful and the writing feels like love personified. The issues I have with it is that you sort of don’t know what is happening outside of Red and Blue, especially in the first half, which makes sense but I think having some kind of world building about what the war is actually about may be helpful??
this was very good, the prose is beautiful and the writing feels like love personified. The issues I have with it is that you sort of don’t know what is happening outside of Red and Blue, especially in the first half, which makes sense but I think having some kind of world building about what the war is actually about may be helpful??
ruinedlanguage's review against another edition
5.0
This book has a ridiculously cool title, one of my favourite’s, and it somehow manages to live up to it.
The premise: rival time travel agents on different sides of a war. One of them is more of a bionic sci-fi robot type and the other is more of a nature/shape-shifter sort.
One thwarts the other when their success is guaranteed and leaves a letter in their wake. This is how it starts. The beginning of something almost certainly disastrous.
Parts of it were extremely confusing owing to both the writing style and the unique setting. The first few chapters in establishing the essentials proved highly repetitive despite the creative locations and varied time strands. These are the only flaws I can think of and they clearly didn’t impact my overall enjoyment.
My favourite thing about it was of course: the LETTERS!!! My heart was aglow reading them.
I love epistolary novels I love flowery writing and seemingly endless metaphors and I loved this.
It was a pleasure watching their correspondences grow and change, to see these developments reflected in how they signed off their writings. And it was a quote pulled from one of these very letters that inevitably got posted to Pinterest and brought about my reading of this:
“I love you. I love you. I love you. I’ll write it in waves. In skies. In my heart. You’ll never see, but you will know. I’ll be all the poets. I’ll kill them all and take each one’s place in turn, and every time love’s written in all the strands it will be to you.”
THAT’S ROMANCE BABEY.
If someone does not promise to kill thousands of poets across every iteration of time and space and assume their identities for the sole purpose of conveying their love of me, for me, I do not want them.
I cried at the end of this officially making this the first novel that has elicited such a response from me all year.
It definitely warrants multiple readings to understand its intricacies, a future Lee has that to look forward to.
Some fav quotes:
“To be soft, for me, is so often pretense and pretense does not come easily while writing to you.”
“All the stars are eyes here, always seeking, Red’s prophets rail against and indifferent universe, here, in Garden’s domain, all the vast worlds care.”
“Red swears at the sky. She calls Beings in which she does not believe to account. She wants there to be a God so she can curse her”
The premise: rival time travel agents on different sides of a war. One of them is more of a bionic sci-fi robot type and the other is more of a nature/shape-shifter sort.
One thwarts the other when their success is guaranteed and leaves a letter in their wake. This is how it starts. The beginning of something almost certainly disastrous.
Parts of it were extremely confusing owing to both the writing style and the unique setting. The first few chapters in establishing the essentials proved highly repetitive despite the creative locations and varied time strands. These are the only flaws I can think of and they clearly didn’t impact my overall enjoyment.
My favourite thing about it was of course: the LETTERS!!! My heart was aglow reading them.
I love epistolary novels I love flowery writing and seemingly endless metaphors and I loved this.
It was a pleasure watching their correspondences grow and change, to see these developments reflected in how they signed off their writings. And it was a quote pulled from one of these very letters that inevitably got posted to Pinterest and brought about my reading of this:
“I love you. I love you. I love you. I’ll write it in waves. In skies. In my heart. You’ll never see, but you will know. I’ll be all the poets. I’ll kill them all and take each one’s place in turn, and every time love’s written in all the strands it will be to you.”
THAT’S ROMANCE BABEY.
If someone does not promise to kill thousands of poets across every iteration of time and space and assume their identities for the sole purpose of conveying their love of me, for me, I do not want them.
I cried at the end of this officially making this the first novel that has elicited such a response from me all year.
It definitely warrants multiple readings to understand its intricacies, a future Lee has that to look forward to.
Some fav quotes:
“To be soft, for me, is so often pretense and pretense does not come easily while writing to you.”
“All the stars are eyes here, always seeking, Red’s prophets rail against and indifferent universe, here, in Garden’s domain, all the vast worlds care.”
“Red swears at the sky. She calls Beings in which she does not believe to account. She wants there to be a God so she can curse her”
hunterandrew's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Fucking hell. I didn’t think I was going to like this as much as everyone else did, and then FUCK it hit me like a truck. Absolutely devastatingly beautiful in its prose, so full of longing and yearning and hunger and it makes me want to cry. And then it folded back over on itself, such mastery. I love you I love you I love you.
chaoscharly's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
It is definitely a special book and reads more like poetry. The ending bumped up my rating as it was just beautiful and exactly what the story deserved.
k_hanvey's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
valerie_clabaugh's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
timvdalen's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
sad
fast-paced
- 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