This Is How You Lose the Time War

A beautifully written book with subtle complexities, glorious prose with clever time-travel and a warming story of falling in love. If enemies-to-lovers is a trope you like, this pulls it off in a totally uncliched way with a deep Sapphic love borne on letters across time and space.

I can see how this might polarise some opinions and I held off reading it for so long because I was worried I might fall into the dislike camp - not so! I've heard this book accused of being too complicated and boring people but I couldn't disagree more. It is perfectly balanced and brilliantly executed; I found myself hungry to read the next chapter every time I got to the end of the previous. Clever, then, that ‘hunger' is a theme Blue and Red explore in their missives to each other.