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As the Prophets Say, “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

March 19, 2020 by Emmalita 4 Comments

I cannot explain this book. It is an enemies to lovers story divorced from time, place and humanity while also steeped in all three. Red and Blue are operatives in opposites sides of a time war. I don’t have any idea who the sides are or why they fight. I don’t know what’s at stake. There is no good guy or bad guy. None of that matters though. What does matter are the letters Blue and Red exchange. Initially it’s two enemies taunting each other […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Romance, Science Fiction Tagged With: Amal El-Mohtar, Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone, Cynthia Farrell, Emily Woo Zeller, Max Gladstone, Scribd, this is how you lose the time war

Emmalita's CBR12 Review No:21 · Genres: Audiobooks, Romance, Science Fiction · Tags: Amal El-Mohtar, Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone, Cynthia Farrell, Emily Woo Zeller, Max Gladstone, Scribd, this is how you lose the time war ·
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“Her pen had a heart inside, and the nib was a wound in a vein”

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

January 14, 2020 by Carriejay 1 Comment

On a battlefield on a dying world, Red, an agent for the Agency, finds a letter that reads ‘Burn before reading’. So begins a correspondence with Blue, an agent from the Garden, a rival agency. Both factions are fighting a war within and for time, controlling various strands and pulling threads. Undoing what once had been, creating other stories from nothing. That first letter is all boast and bravado, and so is Red’s response, but as the correspondence continues they share more of themselves with […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone, time travel

Carriejay's CBR12 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone, time travel ·
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