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This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Motar and Max Gladstone
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* HUGO AWARD WINNER: BEST NOVELLA * NEBULA AND LOCUS AWARDS WINNER: BEST NOVELLA *
Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandment finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading.
Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, becomes something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.
Except the discovery of their bond would mean the death of each of them. There’s still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win. That’s how war works, right?
Cowritten by two beloved and award-winning sci-fi writers, This Is How You Lose the Time War is an epic love story spanning time and space.
MY REVIEW
This F-F science fiction romance follows the complicated pen-pal communication between two time agents. They were competitive before they started “talking”; and writing to each other, while hiding it from their hive-mind supervisors, takes that competitive nature to the next level.
In jobs where equals don’t exist, and “deep cover” can last for a generation, communication of something outside of work doesn’t exist. The slow burn of falling in love through words is a wonderful thing.
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