This Is How You Lose the Time War

a friend recommended it to me and if it is as good as they say i can’t wait to read it ♥️♥️

You like sci-fi right? If you also like overly flamboyant gushing love letters between two strangers you're never given any reason to care for, then have at it. Otherwise win the time war for yourself by doing something else. Written as an exchange between two time-traveling agents, Red and Blue, on two opposing sides of a war that spans eternity, in prose that is fittingly Purple. Highly abstract and open ended, this will be an enjoyable diversion for people with the time to dedicate to less conventional science fiction.

Op tijd geleverd en in goede staat, dankjewel.

Reading this book, sometimes I didn't know what was happening, sometimes I laughed and smiled, but I also sobbed a lot. This book is so beautiful, I have no words. I'll read it again for sure!

Like many people, I first heard about this book when legitimate and professional news readers had to repeatedly say the username "Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood" on TV and over radio. I remember finding the whole thing utterly hilarious back then, and mentally added the book to my 'to read' list. It was actually much later that a close friend mentioned the book again as something she thought I would like that I actually went out and bought a copy to read. I wish I hadn't waited so long honestly, because I think this might now be one of my absolute favourite books. The story is a scifi, written in the epistolary style between two agents of rival factions in a time war. It starts with them taunting one another, then the language begins to soften, and it's done so artfully that sometimes you don't notice and have to go back a letter and read it again to see the subtle changes in language. It's so poetically written as well, truly lyrical by the end, and the idea and themes are so clever and well executed throughout, I feel like I'm going to re-read this book hundreds of times and still fall in love with it all over again. I've got to admit, usually when I write book reviews I tend not to worry too much about spoilers, simply because I tend to read books that have been out for a few years already. This time I'm being deliberately vague though, because I really think this book is better if you go into it with no expectations. It takes so many twists and turns in the narrative and the ending honestly broke me - I genuinely sobbed all through the last forty pages, I'm not kidding. It's a true enemies to lovers sapphic romance, written in the most dazzling way, with so much poignant yearning dripping from the pages that it destroyed me and healed me over and over again as I read it. It's not a big book, by the way. I think it took me four or so hours to read? I would recommend this book to anyone really, but especially people who enjoy clever narration and beautiful wordplay. I'm excited to read it again!

This book was perfect and beautifully written. It's one of the most romantic books I've ever read, it had fun literary references that satisfied my english lit brain, and the plot and world building was gripping and amazingly done. This is a short book but there is so much packed into it, it felt like it was much longer. Despite this, my only complaint is that I want more, sooo much more.