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

5.0

Well, I found it - my favorite book of the year, and just in time. A time-travel romance between two women fighting on opposite sides of a war spanning the entire multiverse. This book can’t be described properly; it has to be read. It’s classified under science fiction, but it’s poetry and romance and everything else as well. The writing has some of the most lyrical prose I’ve read in a while, much more poem than novel. The emotion within it gave me the intense, bittersweet feelings I’ve craved in a novel for so long. This isn’t like anything I’ve read, and all I can say is that it’s beautiful. Everything about it is beautiful - the relationship between Red and Blue, the world of the Agency and Garden, the incredible ending that I never saw coming, yet on a reread can be noticed. Read this, please. It’s not that long, and it’s amazing.