This Is How You Lose the Time War

This Is How You Lose the Time War

2019 • 223 pages

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Average rating3.9

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This was a book where I had very little idea of what was happening for the first 75% and then loved the book after reaching the end and seeing how all the pieces come together. Even when you're not sure what's going on, the writing is so beautiful and visually stimulating that you're happy to stick around for the ride. 

“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 you.”“Hunger - Red - to sate a hunger or to stoke it, to feel hunger as a furnace, to trace it's edges like teeth - is this a thing you, singly, know? Have you ever had a hunger that whetted itself on what you fed it, sharpened so keen and bright that it might split you open, break a new thing out?” 

January 10, 2024