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What I loved:
The writing is poetic and beautiful; there were interesting images; I was rooting for the characters; it was a very intriguing world.
What I didn't love:
The narrator. I think. I listened to the audio version and I had a hard time connecting with the voice of the narrator. She was almost monotone. I don't know. She did do very well at capturing the intimate tone of the love letters. Maybe she was perfect and I just struggled connecting with the story?
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The writing is poetic and beautiful; there were interesting images; I was rooting for the characters; it was a very intriguing world.
What I didn't love:
The narrator. I think. I listened to the audio version and I had a hard time connecting with the voice of the narrator. She was almost monotone. I don't know. She did do very well at capturing the intimate tone of the love letters. Maybe she was perfect and I just struggled connecting with the story?
I feel very much like I don't t ...more
My goodness this book. I created a shelf for books to reread just for this one, as it'll take a few revisits to properly nail it down, and yet it's one of the more striking books I've read in a long time.
It's centered around two rival agents in a war through time and space (awesome) and their letters. This book can read like poetry and is some of the smartest writing I've read. My only complaint is it can be a tad overdone but it's all good. I had to read this book in small doses, but short chap ...more
It's centered around two rival agents in a war through time and space (awesome) and their letters. This book can read like poetry and is some of the smartest writing I've read. My only complaint is it can be a tad overdone but it's all good. I had to read this book in small doses, but short chap ...more
I have read a lot of books this year, and this is my favourite. It is poetic, unique, painful, strange, and a lot of other things all wrapped up in one relatively short, beautiful book. I really loved this one.
Dec 21, 2024
Gauri
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review of another edition
Shelves:
short-story-novella,
sff-romance
Confusing and overwhelming but interesting and delicious (?) nonetheless. I love the idea of this book (and the execution). It is truly a book one cannot explain, only experience. It feels like a creative writing exercise (polished thoroughly and which I very much enjoyed). More poetry than prose, less structured more abstract. To claim it's sci-fi is to set wrong expectations. To claim it is a romance is also to set it to fail. It is a love story set against a sci-fi background but it is NOT a
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Apr 16, 2020
Sera
marked it as to-read
Apr 23, 2020
♥Xeni♥
marked it as to-read
Jul 20, 2020
Nayab
marked it as to-read
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review of another edition
Shelves:
bookriot-read-hard-challenge
Aug 01, 2020
Kam
marked it as to-read
Sep 05, 2020
Adelia
marked it as to-read
Nov 13, 2020
Joanna
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Nov 23, 2020
Cobwebs-Iced-Across-SpaceTime
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Jan 16, 2021
Caroline
marked it as to-read
