El Mohtar, Amal and Gladstone, Max - This Is How You Lose the Time War

Tue, 26 May 2026 14:04:25 -0400

Rating: 3/5 Worth reading
Pages: 254

I’ve enjoyed Max Gladstone’s books, but the title and cover of this one put me off for a long time.

Now I’ve read it, and I suppose it was worth reading, but only barely. For me, anyway.

I’ll give it that the writing of the letters between the two protagonists is nearly poetry, but this is a time travel story with a plot that makes little to no sense. I don’t think the authors actually intended to write a perfectly logical time travel story, but it still annoys me too much to really enjoy the story.

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El Mohtar, Amal and Gladstone, Max - This Is How You Lose the Time War