I wish I had enjoyed this book, as the fanfare around it was delicious and fun, and the authors seem by all intents and purposes like good people who deserve good things. Alas! It was not the book for me.
For me, ‘This is How You Lose the Time War’ is a love story that vaguely dabbles and wanders in a sci-fi landscape. The descriptions are lovely, I will completely agree to that, but after the 6th or so time where I lost track of what they were even talking about in that sea of nature-inspired metaphors, I lost interest.
The setting for this book is barely existent. There is a time war, sure. There are two sides at war, yeah I got that. What’s it about? How does it work? Are there different universes, or just different times? And how do all the times affect each other? No clue, not a thought, not for us to consider.
I prefer my sci-fi romances to be action packed, character infested, dramatic fanfares through space that you can almost taste on the tip of your thought. This book had an interesting plot clincher (a war that’s been going on for so long no one knows why or what for and the main players have literally transcended real existence into being space ether) but it didn’t really explore much of that, and as such I didn’t particular enjoy it, even if I liked that one the characters got called “Blue-da-ba-dee”, my favourite cocktail drink.
I wish I had enjoyed this book, as the fanfare around it was delicious and fun, and the authors seem by all intents and purposes like good people who deserve good things. Alas! It was not the book for me.
For me, ‘This is How You Lose the Time War’ is a love story that vaguely dabbles and wanders in a sci-fi landscape. The descriptions are lovely, I will completely agree to that, but after the 6th or so time where I lost track of what they were even talking about in that sea of nature-inspired metaphors, I lost interest.
The setting for this book is barely existent. There is a time war, sure. There are two sides at war, yeah I got that. What’s it about? How does it work? Are there different universes, or just different times? And how do all the times affect each other? No clue, not a thought, not for us to consider.
I prefer my sci-fi romances to be action packed, character infested, dramatic fanfares through space that you can almost taste on the tip of your thought. This book had an interesting plot clincher (a war that’s been going on for so long no one knows why or what for and the main players have literally transcended real existence into being space ether) but it didn’t really explore much of that, and as such I didn’t particular enjoy it, even if I liked that one the characters got called “Blue-da-ba-dee”, my favourite cocktail drink.