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This Is How You Lose the Time War
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March 1, 2020
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March 31, 2020

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André Caniato
I find myself wanting to like this book desperately, but I don't know what to think. Don't get me wrong: This Is How You Lose the Time War has beautiful prose and romance, fascinating worldbuilding and a satisfactory ending, but ultimately I don't think it agrees with my brain or the way I read stuff. ...more
Lanko
Jul 11, 2022 rated it really liked it
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I didn't get the romantic part at all but I loved the concept, specially how alien the two protagonists could feel at times.

Blue being part of Garden, and herself such a weird being, specially it's so plant related. Sometimes she's even a six legged wolf. Red seemed more cyborg, and wished she had felt as alien as Blue.

But the thing that really held me was how they were able to transmit their messages. That was very creative, and felt really alien. Storing letters or their contents in parts of
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Paulo Vinicius Figueiredo dos Santos
Quando dizemos que o amor pode vencer todos os obstáculos, pode parecer água com açúcar. Ou clichê. Mas, um sentimento como esse que deixa nosso coração faminto pode nos levar a realizar feitos inacreditáveis. Mesmo uma guerra que acontece há muitos anos pode ser afetada quando dois corações desejam um ao outro. E esse vai ser o tema de É assim que se perde a guerra no tempo onde Amal El-Mohtar e Max Gladstone escrevem poesia na forma de literatura. Daquelas que a gente lê, suspira e aprecia. Ap ...more
Raquel V
Mar 09, 2020 rated it really liked it
I'm not sure it is intended to, but I would definitely classify this as "New Weird SciFi". Very poetic and incredibly nonsensical in the beginning, this book almost lost me early on. But since it's so short, I kept at it and was rewarded. When the main characters began to interact, some sort of magic happened. Although I had no clue what was going on half of the time, I started caring about them, rooting for them, and became invested in the story. The ending is beautiful and as poetic and nonsen ...more
Veronica
Sep 07, 2019 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Mar 17, 2020 rated it really liked it
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Rafael Lohmann
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