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A review by sipping_tea_with_ghosts
This is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar
3.0
Short and sweet.
If you like the idea of a series of love letters between two competitive time traveling gals, then this book might be for you. There are little bits of worldbuilding and fun concepts about Atlantis-esque societies and perfected futures, but it's nothing especially detailed. You're here for the relationship and little jabs between the two main characters more than anything. I personally don't find that love to be the most convincing, feeling like a relationship of happenstance, but its entertaining and melodramatic in prose, which can be more important.
Factions and antagonists are mostly one-note or lacking in screen time, so if the borderline minimalist approach doesn't appeal, you might be better off looking elsewhere. The scenes with those tertiary aspects will likely be the thing you remember the least.
If we do get more from this world and this dynamic duo though...I'll be looking forward to it.
If you like the idea of a series of love letters between two competitive time traveling gals, then this book might be for you. There are little bits of worldbuilding and fun concepts about Atlantis-esque societies and perfected futures, but it's nothing especially detailed. You're here for the relationship and little jabs between the two main characters more than anything. I personally don't find that love to be the most convincing, feeling like a relationship of happenstance, but its entertaining and melodramatic in prose, which can be more important.
Factions and antagonists are mostly one-note or lacking in screen time, so if the borderline minimalist approach doesn't appeal, you might be better off looking elsewhere. The scenes with those tertiary aspects will likely be the thing you remember the least.
If we do get more from this world and this dynamic duo though...I'll be looking forward to it.