August 2022 review of This is how you lose a time war
This is how you lose the time war
Written by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
About from Goodreads.com
Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant 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, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.
Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There's still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war.
Review
Nature VS. Tech. I absolutely love this Idea I am an extreme Plant mom and nature enthusiast (even though I rarely go outside due to my vertigo and Some of my meds causing sun sensitivity). Blue is the operative for the Garden which is of course the nature side. Red is the operative for The Agency which is the Tech side.
I have never read a book by two different authors so I was super nervous about reading one. The main reason I was so nervous is because what if the writers don’t have writing styles that flow together? I was pleasantly surprised that they did flow pretty well together. I am thinking one of the author’s wrote for Blue and the other for Red.
The things I enjoyed were;how slowly over the course of the book you could see the woman fall in love. I thought it was extremely sweet how each of them kept changing the name for each other that corresponded with their color.
The thing I disliked is I didn’t understand what a “strand” is. I don’t think the book ever explained what a strand was, if it did I completely missed it. Since I was having an issue understanding what it was I ended up looking it up and afterwards I felt stupid because it made so much sense. Another thing I didn’t like is that some parts of the book were tedious and kind of boring.
Enjoyed
How the author’s writing flowed together
Nature VS Tech
How they had sweet nicknames for each other corresponding with each other’s color
Disliked
Never explained what a “strand” was (ended up looking it up)
Some parts were tedious and boring
Quotes I love
How many boards would the Mongols hoard if the Mongol horde got bored? -Blue
Summer settles like a bee on clover—golden, busy, here then gone. -Blue
“Like your victory, love spreads back through time”. - Red
3 /5 ⭐️
Info
Trigger warning- Animal Killing, Mention of rape, suicide, Torture, Self-harm, Violence, Gore
Spice level- / 5 🌶
Numbers of pages- 209
Publish date-July 2019
Awards-Hugo Award for best novella (2020), Nebula Award for Best Novella (2019),British Science Fiction Association for Best Shorter Fiction (2019), Locus Award for Best Novella (2019),Fantasy and Speculative fiction(Ray Bradbury Prize) (2020),Prix Aurora Award for Best Short Fiction (2020), Shirley Jackson Award Nominee for Best Novella(2019), and much much more
Genres- Sci-fi, Romance, LGBTQ+, Time Travel, Novella, fantasy
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