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A review by mchester24
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar
4.0
What a whirlwind. I was so excited upon picking up this book for the first time, and by the end of my first session felt confused and uncertain that I loved what I had read. But the next morning felt myself unable to stop thinking about the story, realizing it had gotten to me and I was so eager to continue. Ripping through it ultimately, I found it quite compelling and ripe to want to reread right away!
The language was so beautifully strung together and that made this read such a treat. When I sometimes felt myself a bit off track and not able to visualize how this story would look in, say, film, the flowery and emotional prose did the heavy lifting that made me want to keep reading just one more chapter.
I came in expecting the sci-fi-ness to do the heavy lifting, but the futuristic, post singularity war really was just a backdrop to the love story, the commentary on war and why we’re here, and the expansive and even at times laugh out loud funny exploration of these two post human characters.
What fun and unexpected of a read this was!
The language was so beautifully strung together and that made this read such a treat. When I sometimes felt myself a bit off track and not able to visualize how this story would look in, say, film, the flowery and emotional prose did the heavy lifting that made me want to keep reading just one more chapter.
I came in expecting the sci-fi-ness to do the heavy lifting, but the futuristic, post singularity war really was just a backdrop to the love story, the commentary on war and why we’re here, and the expansive and even at times laugh out loud funny exploration of these two post human characters.
What fun and unexpected of a read this was!