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This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar

33 reviews

thecatconstellation's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful 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? No

4.75

What a gorgeous book! I loved the writing. I would be hard pressed to choose a favorite quote. The story was engaging and did a good job of “showing not telling”. If you are someone who needs all the information to enjoy a book, this isn’t for you. This is a snapshot within a larger story and we have to draw what information we can from our characters, but their relationship is the true focus of this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: War, Grief, Animal death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Confinement

Minor: Excrement, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

talonsontypewriters's review

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, War, Violence, Gore, Body horror, and Grief

Moderate: Animal death, Medical content, Stalking, Abandonment, Confinement, and Self harm

Minor: Child death, Vomit, Torture, Alcohol, and Sexual content

Insects, spiders. Illness.

pipkins973's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective fast-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit and Medical trauma

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Miscarriage

brnineworms's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

If you like this book (and I know a lot of people really do), don’t take my disappointment as an indication that you’re wrong to feel the way you do. I’m glad you enjoyed it, but I just didn’t.

Red and Blue make purple, and this prose sure is purple. Every. Single. Sentence. Is trying so hard to be poetic and deep. Metaphors are great and all but this is just too saturated with them to make any real sense. The characters and their relationship didn't feel especially substantive to me. I like the combination of spirituality and science fiction and there’s some neat imagery here and there, but for the most part I found This Is How You Lose the Time War to be a confusing mess and nothing more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Self harm

Moderate: Body horror, Grief, Murder, Suicide, War, Animal death, and Violence

Minor: Gore, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Confinement, Cursing, Drug use, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Stalking, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

lindseyhall44's review

adventurous

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Vomit, War, Murder, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Blood

li_reading's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad 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? No

5.0

"I like you to know, with my words in your mouth, the places and ways in which I think of you."

If you ever need a reason to believe in love again, read this book.

Alternatively, if you ever want to spend hours staring at the ceiling lamenting the fact you are not a lethal otherworldly being exchanging love letters threats with your equally lethal, equally otherworldly opponent... Read this book.

It is in and of itself a love letter to language. There is not a line within its pages I do not adore.
And, my proof:

I tab with navy if, and only if, a line makes me stop dead, makes me think "holy shit.", demands that I read it 10 times over before I can move on. I use them sparingly. I used 18. In a book with not so much as 200 pages.

Read this book and mourn the fact you will never again read a love letter this beautiful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, War, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Abandonment, Body horror, Medical content, Torture, and Vomit

hanne_'s review

adventurous emotional funny reflective 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Gore

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Death, Genocide, Grief, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Vomit

eligru's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

4.0

wow. How can such a short book contain so much? 
It has left me with the feeling that I should re-read it soon. Partly because I want to keep pondering over timelines and parallel dimensions (and all the other fascinating, smaller concepts that are introduced); but also because I kept getting quite confused and feel like I missed things. It took me a while to get used to the wording and structure of the book and I don't think the audiobook format helped. So, definitely one for a re-read, once I get my hands on a physical copy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Torture

Minor: Vomit, Murder, Genocide, and Abandonment

1undercover's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-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? No

5.0

I am in love with this book. This book rocked me gently into love while also being set in an intriguing and complicated world. Reading this book was like taking a warm bath in the quiet and dark. I would like to own it I think so I can lend it to others like a secret.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Violence, Vomit, Torture, and Suicide attempt

missanniewhimsy's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful inspiring mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, and Blood