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This is How You Lose the Time War
by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
That hurt beautifully.
I have not been so intrigued or so impacted by a book in a way that makes me feel empty after reading in so long and it just hurts so GOOD I can’t.
I cannot begin to even fathom how perfectly romantic the writing of this book is, how it’s as perfectly confusing as it needs to be and reveals things in all the right ways at all the right times. I LOVED how half the story was told through letters, the development of which showed the development of feelings between Red and Blue across SO MANY YEARS oh my god I cannot imagine reading this as the actual slow burn that it was in a bigger book or through a SERIES it would’ve broken me. (though it would have solved a few pacing issues)
I loved Red and Blue, the little we’re actually told of their characters by themselves but can still infer and love so much 😭 Their divided worlds and sides of a war but them still being two sides of the same coin and practically the same among their differences was so perfect. The lowkey cannibalistic way they express their love and insatiable yearning for each other was lowkey toxic yuri but they are just so imperfectly perfect for each other that I know that exactly how it’s meant to be 😭
And I was rather pleasantly surprised by how the time travel was handled,the Interstellar-ness of it and how it WORKED and stuck with me in a a way that it never did in Interstellar or Harry Potter (maybe I’m biased by lesbians but who’s to say 😍) The lead up and execution of Blue’s (temporary) death was just so tragically perfect; I knew the second she mentioned Romeo and Juliet it was gonna go downhill 😭Then Red’s crashout following it and her BEING THE SEEKER and giving up everything to bring Blue back at the end finally was just absolutely picture perfect I cannot even describe it.
I can’t believe I haven’t read this until now. Will definitely be buying and rereading because this book is definitely SO readable I need to find all the foreshadowing and subtext clues I missed from being confused the whole time 😭 the standard for lesbian scifi has been officially raised and I’m here for it
I have not been so intrigued or so impacted by a book in a way that makes me feel empty after reading in so long and it just hurts so GOOD I can’t.
I cannot begin to even fathom how perfectly romantic the writing of this book is, how it’s as perfectly confusing as it needs to be and reveals things in all the right ways at all the right times. I LOVED how half the story was told through letters, the development of which showed the development of feelings between Red and Blue across SO MANY YEARS oh my god I cannot imagine reading this as the actual slow burn that it was in a bigger book or through a SERIES it would’ve broken me. (though it would have solved a few pacing issues)
I loved Red and Blue, the little we’re actually told of their characters by themselves but can still infer and love so much 😭 Their divided worlds and sides of a war but them still being two sides of the same coin and practically the same among their differences was so perfect. The lowkey cannibalistic way they express their love and insatiable yearning for each other was lowkey toxic yuri but they are just so imperfectly perfect for each other that I know that exactly how it’s meant to be 😭
And I was rather pleasantly surprised by how the time travel was handled,
I can’t believe I haven’t read this until now. Will definitely be buying and rereading because this book is definitely SO readable I need to find all the foreshadowing and subtext clues I missed from being confused the whole time 😭 the standard for lesbian scifi has been officially raised and I’m here for it
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Suicide, Violence, War
Moderate: Torture, Blood, Suicide attempt
Minor: Animal death