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This is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar
422 reviews
valerian_honeybee'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
5.0
Graphic: Xenophobia, Suicide, Gore, Suicide attempt, Animal death, Blood, Death, War, and Violence
Moderate: Body horror and Grief
Minor: Genocide
iloponis's review against another edition
4.0
for book club purposes i intend to go back and reread some parts, will update this review later
Graphic: War and Death
hazeleyeddreamer's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Obviously this is not to say that this isn't a good book or it's not worth reading. It's an amazing book. Very plentiful with topics for literary or academic discussion and just generally an insightful and well done book, the kind of book that makes me say "damn I'm never going to write something as good as this. How do you write like that?"
Moderate: War, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, Death, and Violence
Minor: Abandonment and Panic attacks/disorders
kitkathw871's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Blood, Death, and War
mbelle97's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Body horror
Moderate: War
kayanoelle's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.0
One of my favorite quotes: “Sometimes you have to hold a person, though they’ll mistake embrace for strangulation.”
As a non-native speaker, the language was pretty difficult for me in the beginning even though I read almost every book in English but you get used to it!
1) “Wait, am I the seeker?” (I wasn’t)
2) “Wait, did they hide a message in this book somewhere?” (They did)
3) Omg no way, she gave Blue her antibodies?! But that means she isn’t dead! Ohh, but Red had to think she was dead in order to go to these length to even give her the antibodies in the first place. Time traveling confuses me.
Moderate: Gore, Blood, Death, and War
abby_can_read'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
3.0
I heard good things on about this book on social media. For me, this book was alright. I spent the first part confused.
Graphic: Death, Violence, and War
Moderate: Torture, Body horror, and Blood
Minor: Confinement, Murder, and Animal death
austenite93's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: War, Torture, Violence, and Death
chemeducator's review against another edition
2.5
Graphic: War
bootrat'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? Yes
5.0
Graphic: War, Violence, and Death