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

August 1, 2021 by faintingviolet 2 Comments

I was intimidated by this book, which feels like a strange thing to say about a book that measures no more than 7 inches tall and less than 200 pages. But I was. A book that inspires so many positive, nay gushing, reviews that also seems to leave the reviewer at a loss for how to describe the book (see please reviews by Aquillia, andtheIToldYouSos, carriejay, and emmalita as a place to start) had me putting it on and taking it off my to read […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Amal El-Mohtar, Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone, cbr13bingo, epistolary novel, faintingviolet, Max Gladstone, queer romance, read harder challenge, rec'd, Romance, spy novel, Suspense, this is how you lose the time war, time travel, two hander

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:36 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Amal El-Mohtar, Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone, cbr13bingo, epistolary novel, faintingviolet, Max Gladstone, queer romance, read harder challenge, rec'd, Romance, spy novel, Suspense, this is how you lose the time war, time travel, two hander ·
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