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cyrano"This Is How You Lose the Time War" by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
(Note the spotting of the rare five star rating.)
This book tore me open, and crawled inside me like I was a human Tauntaun. I ugly cried through the last two-thirds of the book, which I couldn't go to bed until I had finished. So many feels. I believe these are all of them, in fact. I can't guarantee it'll hit anybody else like it hit me. But if you're looking for a scifi Romeo and Juliet epistolary gothic romance that is in love with language and words, then sib you've just hit the jackpot. This story storms through time, all the way in one direction, all the way back the other, and then returns to the middle for the end. It's an amazingly personal story told on an epic scale canvas. Read it out loud, to yourself or somebody else. Feel the words slip around your tongue, brush against your teeth. It's a tactile experience and a literary experience.
(Note the spotting of the rare five star rating.)
This book tore me open, and crawled inside me like I was a human Tauntaun. I ugly cried through the last two-thirds of the book, which I couldn't go to bed until I had finished. So many feels. I believe these are all of them, in fact. I can't guarantee it'll hit anybody else like it hit me. But if you're looking for a scifi Romeo and Juliet epistolary gothic romance that is in love with language and words, then sib you've just hit the jackpot. This story storms through time, all the way in one direction, all the way back the other, and then returns to the middle for the end. It's an amazingly personal story told on an epic scale canvas. Read it out loud, to yourself or somebody else. Feel the words slip around your tongue, brush against your teeth. It's a tactile experience and a literary experience.