If you’ve been on Book Twitter over the past few weeks, you’ll know that an account called Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood tweeted about a book called This is How You Lose the Time War. The tweet blew up, so much that there are now cosplays involving people holding up huge mockups of the book. This became, for me, a case of wanting to jump on the bandwagon, especially since I’d seen this book on a few lists by this point and made a mental note to get to it someday. The tweet came as a final push.
I finished this book at 2 AM and every cell of my body was screaming in frustration. It still is as I try to write this review. And if you ask me what the book is about, I’ll probably be able to tell you. In bits, pieces, and fragments, perhaps, like the book itself is, but I can. What I cannot wrap my head around is how the book is written.
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