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A review by kayanoelle
This is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.0
Very dramatic, very confusing, very poetic, very lovely, very gory, very funny. Quite a few revelations, the occasional 💡-moment. A single tear rolled down my cheek towards the end there. Maybe that’s because it’s 2 a.m. but hey, I stayed up this late to finish the book so it has to be good. It was good. The last 50 or so pages really tied everything together!
One of my favorite quotes: “Sometimes you have to hold a person, though they’ll mistake embrace for strangulation.”
As a non-native speaker, the language was pretty difficult for me in the beginning even though I read almost every book in English but you get used to it!
A few things I said out loud while reading this book:
1) “Wait, am I the seeker?” (I wasn’t)
2) “Wait, did they hide a message in this book somewhere?” (They did)
3) Omg no way, she gave Blue her antibodies?! But that means she isn’t dead! Ohh, but Red had to think she was dead in order to go to these length to even give her the antibodies in the first place. Time traveling confuses me.
One of my favorite quotes: “Sometimes you have to hold a person, though they’ll mistake embrace for strangulation.”
As a non-native speaker, the language was pretty difficult for me in the beginning even though I read almost every book in English but you get used to it!
1) “Wait, am I the seeker?” (I wasn’t)
2) “Wait, did they hide a message in this book somewhere?” (They did)
3) Omg no way, she gave Blue her antibodies?! But that means she isn’t dead! Ohh, but Red had to think she was dead in order to go to these length to even give her the antibodies in the first place. Time traveling confuses me.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Gore, Blood, Death, and War