antijeffbozo_love2read 's review for:

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

4.75

adventurous hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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I mostly wish it was longer!! But yeahh it wouldn't have really worked if it was. The world building is so intriguing I kinda wish we got to learn more as I was left with a few unanswered questions (major spoilers!!!!:)

(like why does Red from the future (the seeker) follow Red to places/times where letters weren't exchanged? Also how did Blue know Red's real name?

I was so invested and interested the whole time though it was a super fun read (although I definitely needed peace and quiet to be able to comprehend some of that language lol)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Stalking, Murder, Colonisation, Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Vomit

Nothing horribly gorey but there's still talk/moderate descriptions of lots of violence