This Is How You Lose the Time War

This Is How You Lose the Time War

2019 • 223 pages

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Average rating3.9

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There are points of this book that was truly 5 stars for me.
And there were points that really felt flat and I just wanted to give 2 stars.

The writing style is so beautiful, and the end was so well done. 5 stars for sure.
The Sci fi was exactly my taste! The main story line about how you need to change just a tiny bit of thing to make a huge impact in the future is spot on. (on a side note, Asimov did something similar in “The end of Eternity”, but instead of being a war between 2 organizations, it was just one trying to prevent humanity to end)

The romance felt super rushed for my taste (I know, I know, this is a novella). They went from enemies to lovers in a span of just a few letters.
I also felt that Red and Blue had both the same voice and I couldn't distinguish one from another.

It also felt like a collection of time travel short story intertwine with love letters. It became repetitive real fast.

So if you get all the stars, add 5 here, remove 2 there, it will be 3 stars (:

July 28, 2022