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!