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

emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

 This is how you lose the time war 4/5 Subtracted one star only because it sometimes was nonsensical and the prose became too pretentious. But anyway, I have collected a bunch of quotes that I wont forget anytime soon, I enjoyed the
love and angts between Red and Blue and a few  technological concepts regarding how the people from the Agency are "built" and and I also found some timetravelling concepts interesting. I think this will send me into a time travel reading phase
cuz I also read Dark matter (didnt like it much) and I wanna read Wrong PLace Wrong Time.

I don't care that I didn't get much worldbuilding and plot because that was not the point of the book.
You can cleary tell the authors had fell fun writing this, and I felt it.

Here are some quotes (skip if you wanna go blind):
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Red:
"I'd walk a swath of rot through your verdancy, no matter how light I try to step."

"Adventure works in any strand—it calls to those who care more for living than for their lives."

"...our glorious crystal future shines so bright I gotta wear shades, as the prophets say."

"You are yourself, and so remain, as I remain,
Yours, 
Red"
 

Blue: 
 
"In order to recall my words you must seek my presence in your thoughts."

"And then we'd be at each other's throats even more. Oh, petal. You say like its a bad thing."

"My viny-hivey elfworld, as you say, versus your techy-mechy dystopia"

"...a desire to br apart, sometimes, to understand who I am without the rest."
"To be alone in a crowd, apart and belonging, to have distance between what I see and what I am."

"Socrates! I wonder if we knew any of the same ones."

"I fall to paper and quill because there is no time, now, to do anything else--and it is luxury, in its own way, to do this.
It's everything I wanted from an enemy. I wish you could hear me clap.
Bravo, my pomegrante. Well done. Nine out of ten."