This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone is an epistolary novel, with opposing time-traveling rival agents attempting to win a war. Also, they gradually fall in love.
The fun of this book, for me, was in my appreciation of the prose style, and in piecing together the scraps of worldbuilding to differentiate the two sides and the two agents, Red and Blue. the book is also a commentary on correspondence, particularly the type of correspondence that is timely (heh) and ...
Published on February 19, 2025 05:00