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lightreads) wrote2019-09-30 10:39 am
lightreads) wrote2019-09-30 10:39 am
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This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar
This Is How You Lose the Time War
3/5. Novella of an epistolary romance between lady time travel agents of warring powers who try to edit each other's rise out of the timeline.
This is full of things I like – not just lesbians, but epistolary lesbians! Epistolary is my jam. It's honestly embarrassing how much I've written it myself. Anyway, the letters here are lovely, but the style of the whole thing is just so *gestures* so . . . styling. So we-write-letters-and-embed-them-in-seeds-for-the-other-to-sensually-consume-in-a-meaningful-fashion. Don't get me wrong, it's well executed style, all working towards a goal of engendering hunger (it's a metaphor, you guys) in people whose notions of self and of satisfaction have been eroded. And of course there are time travel shenanigans. But the stylism is just . . . so. So very. And it kept me from really engaging with this on an emotional level.
3/5. Novella of an epistolary romance between lady time travel agents of warring powers who try to edit each other's rise out of the timeline.
This is full of things I like – not just lesbians, but epistolary lesbians! Epistolary is my jam. It's honestly embarrassing how much I've written it myself. Anyway, the letters here are lovely, but the style of the whole thing is just so *gestures* so . . . styling. So we-write-letters-and-embed-them-in-seeds-for-the-other-to-sensually-consume-in-a-meaningful-fashion. Don't get me wrong, it's well executed style, all working towards a goal of engendering hunger (it's a metaphor, you guys) in people whose notions of self and of satisfaction have been eroded. And of course there are time travel shenanigans. But the stylism is just . . . so. So very. And it kept me from really engaging with this on an emotional level.