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This is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar
3.0

Initially I rated this a 3-star upon finishing it. As I've sat longer before coming back to review it, I've bumped it down to a 2-star.

Truthfully, I don't even know what the fuck I read. I don't know if I'm just illiterate, dense, or what the problem is but I literally read like 100-some pages and didn't have a fucking clue what it was talking about. 

You're following the perspective of Red and Blue who work for different time traveling agencies and they fall in love through writing letters to one another in magical and unique ways. The letters are pretty self-explanatory, and the two soon find themselves falling in love. The chapters in between the letters have literally zero-context and I don't understand what was happening or why. 

There was like one twist that happens near the end and I'm like, oh, wow, ok, cool..then I literally just wanted to finish it. I just wanted it to be done so I could sell it and move on with my life. 

So yeah, read if you want.