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This Is How You Lose the Time War
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April 30, 2020
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How You Lose the Time War
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What Members Thought

Andre
Oct 23, 2023 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
This is a beautiful love story of tumultuous connection through vibrant worlds and times both well known and yet to come. It is speculative fiction yet a take as old as life.

It was leant to me because the previous owner didn’t get it and gave up a few chapters in. I was hooked by page three and knew it to be my flavor of delicious chaos
L. Lawson
Feb 08, 2020 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
4.5. eBook.

This book, man, for the first 29 pages, I fucking hated it. It began with the purplest prose I have seen in FOREVER. I literally almost put it down for good.

But then I hit page 30 and everything clicked. The prose was still purple through and, to be honest, detracted a bit from the story overall, but once I saw what the authors were doing with this star-crossed lovers and enemies in time thing, I was way in.

This novella is urgent and powerful and, by the end, edge-of-your-seat. It’s
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Jessica
Jan 27, 2024 rated it it was amazing
“I love you. I love you. I love you. I'll write it in waves. In skies. In my heart. You'll never see, but you will know. I'll be all the poets, I'll kill them all and take each one's place in turn, and every time love's written in all the strands it will be to you.”

I am a sucker for a well written love letter, and This is How You Lose the Time War has many. This is the a love story between soldiers on opposite sides of a time war that neither seems close to winning.

It's more romance than it is
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