This Is How You Lose the Time War is a wildly creative romance that careens across space and time. The opening prose was some of the greatest I've ever read, and I savored the strange technologies and worlds the characters use and fight for. Yet midway through the novel I'd grown a little tired of the brief, episodic chapters that switched between the two leads. This interrupted the flow of my reading, but may be more appreciated by readers who want to read in short bursts. This is a unique, well-plotted work worth spending time with.