REVIEW: This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Dear Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone,

One look at this 209-page time-travel novel’s blurb and I had to preorder it, so I’m reproducing that blurb here:

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Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading.

And 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.

Except discovery of their bond would be dea...