A review by brisingr
This is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar

5.0

oh, this.... THIS is how you fucking write a story!!!!!!!!!!!!! i cannot tell you how entirely up my alley this book was: from its length, to its genre (sci-fi!!!) and its main themes (letters! time travel!) and it's beautiful, painful, incredible gorgeous prose and the characters that you can't help but follow through strands of time and love each version.

how smart. how beautiful. how wonderful. i'm so grateful for this story. how to explain this is exactly how i want every single thing i read to be? dreamy and unknowing, but so full of heart - i don't need to understand, i just need to feel and love, and understanding will follow regardless. ah!!!!!!!!! Ah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!