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This Is How You Lose the Time War
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* HUGO AWARD WINNER: BEST NOVELLA * NEBULA AND LOCUS AWARDS WINNER: BEST NOVELLA * "[An] exquisitely crafted tale...Part epistolary romance, part mind-blowing science fiction adventure, this dazzling story unfolds bit by bit, revealing layers of meaning as it plays with cause and effect, wildly imaginative technologies, and increasingly intricate wordplay...This short novel warrants multiple readings to fully unlock its complexities." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) From award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone comes an enthralling, romantic novel spanning time and space about two time-traveling rivals who fall in love and must change the past to ensure their future. Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandment finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, becomes something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would mean the death of each of them. There's still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win. That's how war works, right? Cowritten by two beloved and award-winning sci-fi writers, This Is How You Lose the Time War is an epic love story spanning time and space.Show more
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This one was just not for me. Had to force myself through it (coming close to DNFing). The conceit is interesting - two agents on opposing sides of a (time) war fall in love, but the love doesn’t really feel earned and we don’t know the characters well enough to be vested. I was able to guess the identity of the seeker quite early. This one just didn’t thrill me.
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To be completely upfront, I didn’t enjoy this book. I think there’s a fine line between language that is genuinely poetic and throwing a lot of words down on a page to mimic this; to me, this was the latter. The language felt overly complicated and lacked purpose - a lot of it added very little to the plot, and I’m still not 100% on what the plot actually was. A thesaurus might be handy in reading this book. If you’re really into language then this is probably a brilliant book for you. It just made me feel confused and a bit stupid not understanding it. This might have been saved by the characters or plot but I didn’t warm to either. Not the book for me but I’m sure others would enjoy. The saving grace for me was that it was short, otherwise I would not have stuck with it.
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