Each week one of us reads a book and tells the other person about it. This is how you lose the Time War by Amal El-Matar and Max Gladstone. The hard thing about this book for us is we are always like, tell me the world.
This is a twist on a time travel story where the relationship between two enemies-turned-frenemies-turned-lovers takes center stage, leaving the actual mechanics of the time travel and all the world-building mostly unexplained. The dual authorship—each author wrote the chapters for one of the two characters—adds another interesting wrinkle.
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