This Is How You Lose the Time War

How it reads

This Is How You Lose the Time War is science fiction (epistolary time-travel romance, specifically), and its dominant mood is romantic. The relationship is the engine of the story. The pace is moderate — neither a page-turner nor a slow burn — so it holds up whether you read it in long sittings or short ones.

It's set in several locations, in the future, told through letters, documents or mixed forms. Its central concerns are love, identity and war. In weight it's heavy and literary — denser, more serious, and more demanding of you.

It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending resolves happily. At 209 pages it's a quick read. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.