kelly_chan 's review for:

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar
5.0
adventurous funny mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Almost anything I could say would be a spoiler, but I definitely recommend it for fans of heavy, literary historical drama, and also the Loki tv series.  This novella skips around over many millennia, so it's more enjoyable the more interested you already are in history and literature, as there are lots of references that would slow you down to research from scratch.  I don't recommend this book for anyone who, for example, doesn't already have some idea of or interest in who Socrates was