
This Is How You Lose the Time War
★★★★★Read Nov 2, 2020
Well that was a hell of a good read. It took me awhile to get into it; the prose is very intense and flowery. But then that's deliberate, and referred to internally in the text, and once you plow through that is's quite beautiful. The plot is very oblique too but really it doesn't matter. I never thought a romantic novel of letters between two lovers could also be a hard sci-fi time travel story. Pretty phenomenal accomplishment. Very much liked this book.
Goodreads readers give it 3.82★, from 376,453 ratings. I gave it 4★, +0.2, where I'm usually −0.9: I liked it more than most.
Readers call it Science Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Queer, LGBT, Time Travel, Lesbian.
Won Hugo Award 2020, Nebula Award 2019, Locus Award 2020, British Science Fiction Association Award 2019 and 4 more.
Also nominated for Shirley Jackson Award 2020, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award 2020, Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2020, The Kitschies 2019 and 2 more.