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This Is How You Lose the Time War
- An epic time-travelling love story, winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novella
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell, Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
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Summary
Winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novella, the Reddit Stabby Award for Best Novella AND The British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novella
Two time-travelling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters - and fall in love in this thrilling and romantic book from award-winning authors Amal-El Mohtar and Max Gladstone.
Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading.
Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.
Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There's still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war. That's how war works. Right?
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- Laura
- 26-10-19
Totally confusing.
Really struggled through this. Felt like I had no clue what was going on for large parts of it. The narrators did there best to keep it interesting but far too convoluted and pretentious for my liking.
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- Mrs Cathy
- 22-04-20
Revelatory
Poetry meets prose, hardcore sci-fi. I have never read anything like it and for that I give it top marks. It was masterful, the language was beautiful.
The narrators were perfect.
8 people found this helpful
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- DeadNotSleeping
- 09-11-19
Too boring to hold my attention
"Two time-travelling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters" - it shouldn't be possible to make this story boring, and yet somehow it is. I tried my best but after a while the overly wordy and vague narrative just couldn't hold my attention anymore. The narrators are quite good and sort of soothing in a way but that wasn't what I wanted from this purchase.
7 people found this helpful
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- D. Davidson
- 17-06-20
This how you win the hearts of readers.
Loved this, it lured me in, then swept me away. The universe of this book is intriguing and the rhythm of the prose, as performed by the excellent narrator, was perfect.
5 people found this helpful
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- Anonymous User
- 28-01-21
A most excellent book
This is the most beautiful book I've ever read and listened to (and I usually don't do romance). But do not try to understand what's happening: The real story is the relationship between the two protoganists.
I'm surprised it worked so well as an audiobook. Even if you read it before I recommend this version, because I think it adds to the story (even though I think the written version is a tiny bit better).
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- Neurodiverse queer survior
- 08-12-20
delicious
saphic time travelling love...
shame about all the graphic violence.
but concept and delicious prose kept me going.
3 people found this helpful
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- Jenamylou
- 12-05-20
Stunning and compelling
The love story everyone should hear and feel. Alive with humour, passion and just a touch of snark.
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- Stevan
- 15-03-20
brilliant
the prose are excellent and the story gripping I can't recommend it enough. it's great
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- Michela
- 12-01-20
Back and forth through time and characters
It was a bit confusing at the beginning and in some other points, as I was listening to the audiobook, to discern which of either protagonists was which and what were the stakes. The story starts in the middle of action and doesn't stop to explain, you get pieces of information about the situation and the characters from the narrators' own words to each other and slowly get to connect the dots. A fascinating story, in which the connection between enemies through time and space and war, in the attempt to outsmart each other, creates a bond that changes everything, back to the beginning of their lives.
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- mr a thomson
- 14-01-21
What a gorgeous book
At first I wasn't sure what I was listening to, as I was confused by the time traveling, and the back and forth between the characters. After a few chapters though I was captured by the evolving conversation, that was both poetic and fantastical. I absolutely love this book and reccomend it to anyone who enjoys an alternative love story.
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-11-22
Fantastic!
Absolutely loved it! It drew me in from the first moment and didn't let me go until the very end.
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- Peter Jordanov
- 02-02-22
Well Written and Well Performed
The format of the book and the approach to the production into an audiobook yielded a great audiobook experience.
Very simple yet very ingenious they to voice the letters read by one character with the same actor as the sender.
Overall it's a short and sweet romance story.
A "Sci-Fi Romeo and Juliet spy novella"
I'd recommend it even to people qho don't fancy themselves Sci-Fi fans
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- Tom Dawkins
- 04-07-21
This one is hard to review...
This is a unique book that verges on poetry. It's mystical, confusing, melodic. I'm not sure I like it all that much, but then I think that's what I like about it. It's left me uncertain.