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A review by silvae
This Is How You Lose The Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar
5.0
This book gave me a headache for quite a while - in a good way, mostly.
I'd been eyeing it for quite some time, as the premise seemed to call out for me as if it had been written with me in mind. I gave the ebook a shot and couldn't quite get into it, and so I waited week upon week for the audiobook to become available. Lo and behold, what seemed like the world's shortest audiobook was in my holds and I dove right in. As with the ebook, I found myself slowly moving through the first few chapters, unsure if this was actually the book for me, but the more I allowed myself to listen to the characters, the more I enjoyed listening to them egging each other on, their tone slowly shifting from taunting to flirtatious. I preffered the letters segments to the plot segments, though these showed the capabilities of the two authors in terms of building a compelling setting for the two characters to move around in.
Reading the physical edition might have helped with my comprehension of the story as a whole, but dang, the two narrators did a fine job setting the tone of the story. I wish their voices had been a bit more distinct so that I could tell the two figures apart, but that may just be on me!
I'd been eyeing it for quite some time, as the premise seemed to call out for me as if it had been written with me in mind. I gave the ebook a shot and couldn't quite get into it, and so I waited week upon week for the audiobook to become available. Lo and behold, what seemed like the world's shortest audiobook was in my holds and I dove right in. As with the ebook, I found myself slowly moving through the first few chapters, unsure if this was actually the book for me, but the more I allowed myself to listen to the characters, the more I enjoyed listening to them egging each other on, their tone slowly shifting from taunting to flirtatious. I preffered the letters segments to the plot segments, though these showed the capabilities of the two authors in terms of building a compelling setting for the two characters to move around in.
Reading the physical edition might have helped with my comprehension of the story as a whole, but dang, the two narrators did a fine job setting the tone of the story. I wish their voices had been a bit more distinct so that I could tell the two figures apart, but that may just be on me!