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?'
By Damla
“I love you and I love you and I love you, on battlefields, in shadows, in fading ink, on cold ice splashed with the blood of seals. In the rings of trees. In the wreckage of a planet crumbling to space. In bubbling water. In bee stings and dragonfly wings, in stars.”
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This Is How You Lose The Time War is a war-time love story like I have never ever read before.
What we have here is a war for power, for dominance; that much is familiar. But this war, the time war, is unlike any other. This war is fought only in little moments in the past and in the future, traveling back and forth, setting up the chess pieces, and knocking them down, pulling on one thread, creating a tiny foothold while destroying another. And the agents in charge of these tactics… Well, they are connected to each other more than even they can imagine.
A cold, calculating beginning that had me in a choke-hold at the very start evolved into something so unique, so poetic yet so distant and bittersweet, that I knew this book was going to be memorable for a long, long time for me. What is surprising is that this book was written by two authors, each giving a separate voice to their character while also feeling very cohesive. I was in awe of the style all the way though, and this has definitely become a favorite.
