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Así se pierde la guerra del tiempo by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar
145 reviews
suhair's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
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? No
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death and War
Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Gun violence, Grief, Stalking, and Alcohol
asafekindofhigh's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
hopeful
mysterious
fast-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
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Body horror, Death, Violence, Blood, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail
ye_li's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
reflective
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? N/A
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Violence, and Blood
Moderate: Animal death, Death, Torture, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Confinement
embersbooknook's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- 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? It's complicated
5.0
This book was a fucking masterpiece - I am nearly speechless. I thought I would read this book in a day, maybe two when I picked it up last weekend.
However, I found myself savoring it in bits and pieces this week.
Would I have read it so slowly had I not been so busy/tired? No. 😂
But it really allowed the book to sink in.
The prose and writing is so gorgeous and lush - poetic even. I used so many tabs marking beautiful passages.
Watching this love story unfold across time and space was a privilege to witness, and the twist at the end was so deliciously unexpected.
I would recommend this book to anyone - it is a wonderful adventure, and a moving love story. Mohtar and Gladstone masterfully wove an epic of ages - I only wish there was more to read!
Red and Blue were truly like dance partners, drawing us in and out of a tale that just leaves you savoring what is and also hungry for more.
Truly a breathtaking book - read it and thank me later!😉🤗
However, I found myself savoring it in bits and pieces this week.
Would I have read it so slowly had I not been so busy/tired? No. 😂
But it really allowed the book to sink in.
The prose and writing is so gorgeous and lush - poetic even. I used so many tabs marking beautiful passages.
Watching this love story unfold across time and space was a privilege to witness, and the twist at the end was so deliciously unexpected.
I would recommend this book to anyone - it is a wonderful adventure, and a moving love story. Mohtar and Gladstone masterfully wove an epic of ages - I only wish there was more to read!
Red and Blue were truly like dance partners, drawing us in and out of a tale that just leaves you savoring what is and also hungry for more.
Truly a breathtaking book - read it and thank me later!😉🤗
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Self harm, Blood, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail
The stuff mentioned is brief and not overly graphic. But it is there, so just including it - I didn’t find the book difficult to stomach, and I am a very sensitive reader.christinewonder's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
Content Warnings
Minor: Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Grief, War, and Injury/Injury detail
weigel_brianna's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- 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
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Suicide attempt and War
imoran's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
I am not okay - but I think, maybe, they are??
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Vomit and War
anni_o's review against another edition
medium-paced
- 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
5.0
I recommend you do not read what this is about before you start.
The style is poetic, beautiful but also a bit confusing at times. This did not hinder me from falling in love with both of them pretty much from the start. The romance hit me with a club from behind (i was the whacked seal), not because I was necessarily surprised by it, I am very familiar with enemies to lovers as a trope, but more because I was stunned how much INTO IT I was. My lesbian darlings, red in blue, blue in red, I- gods.
Anyway.
I adored reading this. Admit to needing the audiobook next to the book because I had difficulty concentrating, but that is probably just me (being non-native english speaking). The audiobook had GREAT voice actors tbh, very well-chosen.
I finished and I wanted to read it again. I cried. I gasped. I was giddy at some of the references.
I recommend if you read this to read it in one sitting, just completely engross yourself in it.
Loved the world, the two mains and how their way of interaction and how they write their letters showed so much about them.
Big recommendation from me, my kinda book, five stars straight up.
The style is poetic, beautiful but also a bit confusing at times. This did not hinder me from falling in love with both of them pretty much from the start. The romance hit me with a club from behind (i was the whacked seal), not because I was necessarily surprised by it, I am very familiar with enemies to lovers as a trope, but more because I was stunned how much INTO IT I was. My lesbian darlings, red in blue, blue in red, I- gods.
Anyway.
I adored reading this. Admit to needing the audiobook next to the book because I had difficulty concentrating, but that is probably just me (being non-native english speaking). The audiobook had GREAT voice actors tbh, very well-chosen.
I finished and I wanted to read it again. I cried. I gasped. I was giddy at some of the references.
I recommend if you read this to read it in one sitting, just completely engross yourself in it.
Loved the world, the two mains and how their way of interaction and how they write their letters showed so much about them.
Big recommendation from me, my kinda book, five stars straight up.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Grief, and Suicide attempt
Minor: Confinement
annamercado19's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- 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? It's complicated
5.0
Definitely one I look forward to rereading, to discovering new strands in how it all braids and unbraids. So incredibly captivating. I'm amazed at how I have been torn apart and put back together and both feel so encompassing at the same time.
At first, it was hard to follow the leaps through time. It felt scattered. But I think that's part of why the authors chose that, to make the letters be not just our focus, but the characters' as well. That was what wove them together. That is what felt most real to them and what they clung to.
I will likely update this review upon reread.
At first, it was hard to follow the leaps through time. It felt scattered. But I think that's part of why the authors chose that, to make the letters be not just our focus, but the characters' as well. That was what wove them together. That is what felt most real to them and what they clung to.
I will likely update this review upon reread.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Murder, and War
Moderate: Death, Torture, and Injury/Injury detail
peppypenguin's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
fast-paced
- 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? It's complicated
5.0
Beautiful writing and storytelling. It feels like a fever dream: you have a sense of the key concepts and how the characters and their relationship are developing. I could not, for my life, visualize the time-traveling and how it worked. That’s okay because the mechanics of the time traveling for each character and their factions serve more as a way to distinguish how they move about space and time and interact with the universe. It also forced me to take my time and digest the words on the page, and in turn the story.
This is great as a novella. Because there is so much poetic prose it helps to have the story told in fewer pages, making it move a bit faster.
The letters between the characters are very well planned. You get a sense of their voices, understand their worlds, and watch their relationship bloom. They feel so real, and have so much depth, and seeing how they fall for each other and leave messages across time, as well as how their paths cross throughout the story is fantastically done.
As a lover of science fiction, this hit the right spot. The time traveling and manipulation of events as it’s done by each side was really interesting! The two sides of the war (the different futures fighting to win) are really unique and so vastly different. I love how they are explained just enough to have real depth and thought put into them.
Red and Blue are wonderful characters. You never learn their real names, but that’s the point. They are opposite sides of the same coin, and to see how they start as pure enemies but eventually come together is beautiful. The genre and unique world of the book is used as a tool, masterfully so, to tell their story.
Lovers of romance and/or science fiction should give this a go.
This is great as a novella. Because there is so much poetic prose it helps to have the story told in fewer pages, making it move a bit faster.
The letters between the characters are very well planned. You get a sense of their voices, understand their worlds, and watch their relationship bloom. They feel so real, and have so much depth, and seeing how they fall for each other and leave messages across time, as well as how their paths cross throughout the story is fantastically done.
As a lover of science fiction, this hit the right spot. The time traveling and manipulation of events as it’s done by each side was really interesting! The two sides of the war (the different futures fighting to win) are really unique and so vastly different. I love how they are explained just enough to have real depth and thought put into them.
Red and Blue are wonderful characters. You never learn their real names, but that’s the point. They are opposite sides of the same coin, and to see how they start as pure enemies but eventually come together is beautiful. The genre and unique world of the book is used as a tool, masterfully so, to tell their story.
Lovers of romance and/or science fiction should give this a go.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Incest, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Torture