Chungledown Bim started reading This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange …
Oh this is ... florid
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This one is short, but such a slog. Both protagonists seem utterly insufferable & I wish them upon each other. The writing is smug & overblown as a 14-year-old who got the fedora they wanted for Christmas. M'edgelord.
I'd have quit this shit, life's too short, BUT THEN my favourite thing in the world
🌈✨️ gay yearning ✨️🌈
"Or: Blue (she lets herself think that name once in a two-mooned month) read her letter and recoiled. Red wrote too much too fast. Her pen had a heart inside, and the nib was a wound in a vein. She stained the page with herself. She sometimes forgets what she wrote, save that it was true, and the writing hurt."
So now I have to finish. If I can. I hate it
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Finished, review: bookwyrm.social/user/Chungledown_Bim/review/2024041#anchor-2024041