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This is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar

13 reviews

spookily's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Violence, Grief, War, and Suicide

Moderate: Animal death, Medical content, Confinement, Murder, Torture, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Gun violence, Vomit, Alcohol, Cursing, Abandonment, Gaslighting, and Child death

peggy_racham's review

4.75

A war across time and space, love across the same. Two agents and lovers. 
I loved reading this book, falling in love with the characters as they're falling in love with eachother. The descriptions of love as a hunger, as violent, profane but beautiful and full of life. And its lesbians

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Genocide, Blood, Body horror, War, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Death

amre23's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Genocide, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Grief, War, Death, Murder, Animal death, Body horror, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Medical content, Stalking, Forced institutionalization, Animal cruelty, Gun violence, and Confinement

Minor: Vomit, Colonisation, and Suicide

lynxpardinus's review

adventurous emotional mysterious tense

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and War

Moderate: Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Stalking, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Body horror, Colonisation, Gun violence, Medical content, Murder, Pedophilia, Torture, and Vomit

Minor: Excrement, Toxic relationship, and Sexual content

Not sure how exactly to trigger tag someone kissing their lover's childhood self but that part was weird and I didn't like it.

flowingleaves's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

A fantastic book. The style is very poetic and emotional, and I at several points had to put the book down because I was crying too hard to continue reading. A magnificent piece of writing with a very interesting world, sympathetic characters, and a truly brilliant ending. Highly recommend!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Body horror, Torture, and War

Minor: Confinement and Gun violence

cemeterygay's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

The biggest highlight of this book is the prose. The book efficiently tells the bulk of the story and the romance as a series of letters that quickly become love letter set to an ongoing war throughout time. The tragedy and romance of this story just come through so clearly and in such a beautifully heart wrenching way. The letters are honestly the highlight of this book. You really feel for both protagonists as what starts as a cat and mouse game quickly becomes a love story that seems doomed to end consumed in flames by a war that is much older and larger than either of our protagonists. It is one of my favorite sci-fi reads and I cannot recommend it enough.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, War, Gore, Self harm, Gun violence, Violence, Torture, and Murder

Minor: Rape and Suicide

Additional CW: attempted murder, imprisonment, poisoning

karambit's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Confinement, Murder, Animal death, and War

Minor: Alcohol, Genocide, Self harm, Abandonment, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture

amortristis's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

If you like this book (and I know a lot of people really do), don’t take my disappointment as an indication that you’re wrong to feel the way you do. I’m glad you enjoyed it, but I just didn’t.

Red and Blue make purple, and this prose sure is purple. Every. Single. Sentence. Is trying so hard to be poetic and deep. Metaphors are great and all but this is just too saturated with them to make any real sense. The characters and their relationship didn't feel especially substantive to me. I like the combination of spirituality and science fiction and there’s some neat imagery here and there, but for the most part I found This Is How You Lose the Time War to be a confusing mess and nothing more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Self harm

Moderate: Body horror, Grief, Murder, Suicide, War, Animal death, and Violence

Minor: Gore, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Confinement, Cursing, Drug use, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Stalking, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

iggydoane's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Picked this up after seeing it float around the internet a bit, and it made for a wonderful afternoon. I read this in one day and two sittings, unable to put it back down after about the halfway mark. 

A good book if you prefer character driven media and don't mind being given only a small glimpse into the structure of the world created around the two heroines. I enjoyed that, because although I found the world interesting I was very eager to get to the next letter, the next interaction. I can see, however, if you are the kind of person that likes to know everything about a setting, or prefers lore-heavy books, how that might be a downside for you.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Death, and Gun violence

lindseyhall44's review against another edition

adventurous

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Vomit, Murder, Gun violence, Blood, Animal death, and Animal cruelty