Trying to give it a 2.5 but StoryGraph is glitching.
It was a nice, easy read, but I didn’t enjoy it as much as the other books in the series. The classic third act breakup was too much for me this time. Max does not deserve Olivia.
Also, I realize this book was written before many people became aware of the issues tourists are causing in Hawaii, but don’t vacation in Hawaii when Native Hawaiians are asking tourists to stay away.

Beautifully written and so well read. 

I enjoyed this book more than the first in the series. It would have been five stars, but the overly gendered descriptions annoyed me (“male determination,” “his mouth looking fresh and male,”  “manwhore,” etc) Also would have loved to see Fox make some other women friends, or at least a mention of that in the epilogue. But despite those annoyances, I really liked Hannah and the chemistry was incredible. 

This was a fun read, but I wish it would have branched a bit more from the original. That, or reference Austen less. It was a little unbelievable to have Darsee talk about Darcy or Alys quote Pride & Prejudice without anyone in the story catching the similarities.

Not as much of a romance as I’d hoped for. The characters were interesting and the settings were incredible, but some of the writing felt forced. I wish more of the conflicts between family members and the cultural and social issues discussed would have been shown more than mostly told. Colorism, sexism, and more were well explained, but it felt almost preachy and jolted me out of the story. The same was true for other plots for me as well, like Niki and her sister. I wish there were more flashbacks sooner, or at least discussions of specific past events that made Niki lash out the way she did. Instead, those examples felt crammed into the ending with Nikis revelations.

How to describe this book? It's sci-fi, it's a romance, it's sapphic, it rightful went viral on #BookTwitter, it's told through letters. I think it's easiest to say that the plot is less important than the emotions, and this book made me feel so many things! While I couldn't always visualize what was happening, I didn't really mind because the writing was so beautiful. The world building was set aside in favor of focusing on the character development. This wasn't what I expected when I picked the book up, but I think it paid off. Other books that I've read told through letters can leave characters two dimensional, and I struggled to care about those characters. 
This Is How You Lose the Time War presented the opposite - I didn't mind what happened in the plot, I was so invested in how the characters were feeling. 

An eternal romance I could believe in. Loving, tender, and ever surprising. Such a beautiful ending.