Book Review | This Is How You Lose the Time War | Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

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Over-Hyped

Would I recommend - NO

Overall - 2.3⭐️

Character - 2⭐️

Setting - 4⭐️

Writing - 2⭐️ 

Plot - 3⭐️

Themes - 3⭐️

Emotions - 1⭐️

Enjoyment - 1⭐️

  • How did this book fall on my radar? I don’t remember adding it.

  • What the hell did I just read? What was the point?

  • Warning… this book is not meant to be binged.

  • I would only recommend it to the Lit Fic reader, because this is a Lit Fic book wearing a science fiction costume.

  • The only saving grace was the weaving of timelines. I enjoyed seeing the ripple effects through history.

  • I needed to understand the world more. Why were the two sides fighting? What were these things (for lack of a better understanding)? Why did they want to control the past? Where did they come from? How did they learn to jump multiverses?

  • A love story spanning Multiverses

  • What was the point of the love story?

  • The stylized writing ruined it all? That’s my final answer.

  • This is where my serious nature can ruin things for me. I need answers. Groundwork. None of that is offered in the story. People hang onto the relationship between Blue and Red, but that wasn’t enough for me.

  • No original enough for me.

  • The reveals are easy to piece together. 

  • I walked away with nothing but an empty shell. 

  • Lit Fic lacks the depth of emotions we see in the other genres. Show me a literary fiction book that made you really cry solely with the words, and not because you had to work for it? I’m ready to be proven wrong.

  • But what was really the point of all of this? What was I supposed to walk away with? 

  • I read some of the book club questions at the end of my copy… they were as pointless as the book? Lacked meaning.

Happy Reading.

Love,

Kait