I was not prepared for how lyrical and epic these love letters were going to be. Just, guh, some of them gave me that weak in the knees, feel it in your chest, kind of legend making feelings.

This is How You Lose the Time War is the story of Red and Blue, rival agents on opposing sides of the war between the technology based Agency and the biologically based Garden. Blue first sees Red across a battlefield and leaves a daring letter taunt for her, Red responds in a similar fashion. They both know if they are discovered to be communicating with enemy agents they’ll be done for, but they’re both compelled by the other. Across time and space the letters become less taunts and more of a shared life in the midst of an eternal war.

This is the book that we picked for the July Meeting of Reading Rainbow Queer Book Club and I cannot wait to talk about it with our members. I found it a little bit hard to start reading since you’re just thrown into the narrative without explanation, but if you can get past that (and I promise it’s worth it) the story just delivers. I want to re-read this one, and I don’t often do that. So, like Bigolas said, just grab a copy and read it!!