amandas_reading_nook 's review for:

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

3.5

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I think I would have liked this book more if it had been longer. I'm sure plenty of readers have arguments for why it works better as a novella, but I wanted more of an explanation of how the two different agencies came to be and how all the different time travel worked. There was plenty of beautiful prose about what it means to be obsessively in love, but weirdly enough, I didn't feel that deep of a connection between Red and Blue.