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One Day All This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.5
adventurous challenging funny fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

 If your affianced isn't trying to kill you in a causality war and erase you from time - is it even love? I mean talk about a courtship for the ages. A time travelling homicidal psychopath meets a time traveling homicidal psychopath. Let the romance begin.

I cackled like a witch in Anhk Morpork! It started slow but let me tell you when we got to the crux of it I was listing a whole lot of Historical and Present-Day Bastard's names hoping they'd get drafted into the anti-arranged marriage war on a farm at the not-so-end-of-time.

Yeah...okay i loved it.
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Plot and Pacing: -1 I was starting to mildly lose interest before Smantha and Wendel showed up. Bloody Twees from the future.
Characters Zoe! Hands down. Way to turn EVERYTHING on it's head. Aces dear founderess. Aces.
Favourite Scene: that epic every-murderer-for-themselves skirmish in a muddy field
Favorite quote :
Stalin and Hitler is cheating,” I say.
“I don’t see why. Achilles is cheating, he never even existed.”
“Says the woman with three Jack the Rippers.”
“Eh.” She shrugs. “You go to get a Jack the Ripper and he turns out to be some effete aristocrat who only really has the guts to butcher helpless women. So you go to a different shard and find another version, and he’s even worse and… before you know it you’re up to your neck in Rippers and they’re all a bit crap, really

(Zoe and The Founder on The War if The Bastards)
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