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Just a sad girl reading sad books.

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Margaret Killjoy: The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice (Paperback, Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness)

It's Samhain and Danielle and her friends are laying low in the wilderness of Idaho, …

A moving interlude for fans of the Danielle Cain series that leaves you wanting more

I'm going to be honest, this one is for the fans. The short novella is divided into the telling of three short stories about the dead friends of Danielle's scooby gang, characters who were important to the events of Freedom, Iowa that the reader never never got a chance to know. As an enthusiastic fan of the series, I found this insight and world building to be rewarding and its overall message well-received. I would highly recommend it to other fans of the series. But for those who aren't already fans, this is probably not the place where you want to start. For that, I would strongly and enthusiastically recommend The Lamb Will Slaughter The Lion (2017).

That said, as much I appreciated these additional stories, I do hope that we will get at least one more full story in the Danielle Cain series, because if anything this book …

Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone: This Is How You Lose the Time War (Hardcover, 2019, Simon and Schuster)

Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange …

I finished reading this a while ago, and I really liked it. Been meaning to write a review, but I've been procrastinating because I have some complicated thoughts about it.

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Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone: This Is How You Lose the Time War (Hardcover, 2019, Simon and Schuster)

Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange …

This book is like Lex for time travelers. If like, I dunno, Lex was actually good and people responded to each other with long poetic, intimate letters.

Even though the book is relatively short, it's taking me a long time to read because after each letter, I want to stop and digest it for a while, like after getting a long message from a dear friend.

Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone: This Is How You Lose the Time War (Hardcover, 2019, Simon and Schuster)

Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange …

"Further," Blue adds, stepping lightly towards the box, making to lift it into the heavy bag next to it, "Ontario sucks. As the prophets say."

This Is How You Lose the Time War by , (Page 27)

I mean, the prophets aren't wrong.

Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone: This Is How You Lose the Time War (Hardcover, 2019, Simon and Schuster)

Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange …

I'm only on the third chapter and I'm already loving this.

Time agents on opposite sides a temporal war who become engaged in a lesbian romance. Each of them from a future that mutually excludes the other's very existence. Their very ability to meet (and presumably touch) a paradox only made possible by the tension of the uncertainty over which future will come to exist.

Thus far, a full half of the novella has been the correspondence the two agents have left for each other across time and space while they carry out their missions.