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A review by aliviasbookshelf
This is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar
5.0
“To die for madness is to die for something.”
I don’t think there is a single word or series of words I could use to describe my love for This is How you Lose the Time War. I received this book on Sunday from a secret Santa, and decided I may as well read it. Within the first ten pages I knew this book would be in my top five ever, and by the halfway point, it was my favorite book I have ever had the pleasure of reading.
This is how you lose the time war is a lyrical and poetic journey across time, as experienced by two opposing forces that find a love in the midst of their battle. Through cleverly hidden letters and witty words, they create a love story that cannot be pinned down to one time. It has no beginning and no end, it just is. And it is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever read.
The pacing of this book is beautiful, and it’s short enough to read in one sitting, it doesn’t get slow at all. The authors create fantastic and strong characterization and don’t spend too much time dwelling on the complexities of the science, leaving that to be absorbed by the readers instead.
The whole book is exactly what the scifi genre needed, a poetic, sapphic and feminist love story.
I don’t think there is a single word or series of words I could use to describe my love for This is How you Lose the Time War. I received this book on Sunday from a secret Santa, and decided I may as well read it. Within the first ten pages I knew this book would be in my top five ever, and by the halfway point, it was my favorite book I have ever had the pleasure of reading.
This is how you lose the time war is a lyrical and poetic journey across time, as experienced by two opposing forces that find a love in the midst of their battle. Through cleverly hidden letters and witty words, they create a love story that cannot be pinned down to one time. It has no beginning and no end, it just is. And it is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever read.
The pacing of this book is beautiful, and it’s short enough to read in one sitting, it doesn’t get slow at all. The authors create fantastic and strong characterization and don’t spend too much time dwelling on the complexities of the science, leaving that to be absorbed by the readers instead.
The whole book is exactly what the scifi genre needed, a poetic, sapphic and feminist love story.