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A review by elle_reads
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar
1.0
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BOOK REVIEW
[This Is How You Lose the Time War] Red and Blue form a relationship through letters in the midst of time’s fraying braid.
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WHAT I LIKED
Cyborgs and mythical nature-lovers jumping through time to secure their alliance’s outcome? Sounds AWESOME! I loved the concept of time in Amal El-Mohter and Max Gladstone’s work. Their commentary on humanity through different historical or mythical moments was my favorite aspect of this book. I particularly loved the idea of Atlantis in the time war.
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WHAT I DIDN’T LIKE
Sad to say…I skimmed through most of this book. The entire book is written in that prequel voice where everything is too epic and you’re just waiting for the main characters you will grow to love to eventually make an entrance. Except they never did. I didn’t find the writing necessarily poetic either. It was stagnate throughout the entire work.
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The main characters Red and Blue are vastly different beings with different upbringings, different bodies, different powers, but they have THE EXACT SAME VOICE. There were small moments where I could tell one moment was supposed to be a particularly “Blue” moment, but it never went far enough. I don’t even have a good picture of the main characters in my head. I know one is a cyborg with a connection to her team’s group consciousness, but I don’t know what the other one is? A future human? A plant? An elf? I really have no idea even after rereading it to try and find out. All in all, this seemed like a barebones skeleton of a plot without any interesting and fully conceptualized meat.
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This Is How You Lose the Time War (by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone) ⚡️1/5
BOOK REVIEW
[This Is How You Lose the Time War] Red and Blue form a relationship through letters in the midst of time’s fraying braid.
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WHAT I LIKED
Cyborgs and mythical nature-lovers jumping through time to secure their alliance’s outcome? Sounds AWESOME! I loved the concept of time in Amal El-Mohter and Max Gladstone’s work. Their commentary on humanity through different historical or mythical moments was my favorite aspect of this book. I particularly loved the idea of Atlantis in the time war.
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WHAT I DIDN’T LIKE
Sad to say…I skimmed through most of this book. The entire book is written in that prequel voice where everything is too epic and you’re just waiting for the main characters you will grow to love to eventually make an entrance. Except they never did. I didn’t find the writing necessarily poetic either. It was stagnate throughout the entire work.
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The main characters Red and Blue are vastly different beings with different upbringings, different bodies, different powers, but they have THE EXACT SAME VOICE. There were small moments where I could tell one moment was supposed to be a particularly “Blue” moment, but it never went far enough. I don’t even have a good picture of the main characters in my head. I know one is a cyborg with a connection to her team’s group consciousness, but I don’t know what the other one is? A future human? A plant? An elf? I really have no idea even after rereading it to try and find out. All in all, this seemed like a barebones skeleton of a plot without any interesting and fully conceptualized meat.
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This Is How You Lose the Time War (by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone) ⚡️1/5