A review by kiiitasticbooks
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar

5.0

 

It’s difficult to explain why I loved This Is How You Lose The Time War as much as I did.

This is mostly because This Is How You Lose The Time War is a difficult book to explain. In the beginning, readers will be confused by what is going on. Someone on a battlefield finds a letter? They burn it, then move on?

But the further you get into This Is How You Lose The Time War, the easier it is to understand what is going on. The story evolves as you read, and by the time you get to the final pages of the book, you’ll have a completely different viewpoint of the first few pages.

One of my favorite things about This Is How You Lose The Time War is the romanticism of each letter. Our two main characters, Red and Blue, have been on opposite sides of a war. They’ve seen each other in passing, but neither really knows about each other until the day Blue writes Red a letter stating her interest. From here, we get to see their story play out and learn just how involved in each others’ lives Red and Blue have been without them knowing.

Like I said, it’s difficult to put into words my love for this book, solely because I know too much now. But I’d recommend that anyone who hasn’t read this book yet to pick it up!