Loved itThis is a beautiful love story, but I'm calling it whimsical because it plays with the concept of time travel in a way that doesn't feel like you're watching a Christopher Nolan movie that you don't really understand.
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This is How You Lose the Time War (2019)
Others: Mostly positive Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in this thrilling and romantic book from award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. In the ashes of a dying world, Red finds a letter marked “Burn before reading. Signed, Blue.” So begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents in a war that stretches through the vast reaches of time and space. Red belongs to the Agency, a post-singularity technotopia. Blue belongs to Garden, a single vast consciousness embedded in all organic matter. Their pasts are bloody and their futures mutually exclusive. They have nothing in common—save that they’re the best, and they’re alone. Now what began as a battlefield boast grows into a dangerous game, one both Red and Blue are determined to win. Because winning’s what you do in war. Isn’t it? A tour de force collaboration from two powerhouse writers that spans the whole of time and space.
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Not a fanI unfortunately did not like that book. I know a lot of people love it. I love that so many people love it. I personally just had a hard time with it.
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Loved itThere's a lot of things here that I love. In the Dreamhouse, I rose into the sea, My Heart is a Chainsaw, How You Lose the Time War, I Who have never known men, walking practice, to be taught if fortunate.
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Loved itThis book is the most beautiful like musing on love I have ever read. This is philosophy in fiction. It is stunning.
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Loved itThis is the same author who wrote This is how you lose the time war. One of the co-authors of that book which I also really loved.
Loved itAnd this was written by the same author who wrote This Is How You Lose the Time War, which was one of my favorite sci-fi releases I read last year.
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Not a fanI didn't read that much of it, to be honest. For this, it was the writing style that absolutely put me off. I could not make it through the sentences.
Loved itif you go to the dictionary and Search up the word yearning you will find the ISBN number for this book it's so gorgeously written it's very lyrical and poetic
Loved itit is so beautifully written and so romantic there's so much longing and love in this book
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MixedI really like this the Poetry of this two diverging timelines one mechanical one carbon you know who's going to be ascendant and then they're at War and then like there's a love story between the two and they leave each other notes in the most amazing inventive ways but I thought for me the Poetry got a little I it was overwritten almost
Not a fanthis is how you lose at the time War I am sorry I think I should have just give it a rest the concept in love with the execution get out the embarrassment of which is I think should have dnf'd
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Loved itAnd I read it and I really liked it. It made me feel things. I like the going back and forth between like letters, the epistolary style.
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Loved itthis was such an interesting book i didn't know what to expect from it but i thoroughly enjoyed it but it was just so beautiful really enjoyed the writing
Loved itthis is the weird time-travel Romeo and Juliet female romance book that I will be hyping forever
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