Ex Libris Kirkland

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Illustrator Max Gladstone
First Written 2020
Genre Scifi
Origin US
Publisher Saga
ISBN-10 1534430997
ISBN-13 978-1534430990
My Copy paperback. Note that it's a 2-author deal, Gladstone and El-Mohtar take alternate chapters, presumably? But Gladstone is marked here as the illustrator just so I've got the record.
First Read January 04, 2022

This is How You Lose the Time War



Alternating chapters from two authors that sound way too similar. Field agents for rival civilizations bop in and out of time to work their intricate operations, but mostly to leave each other love notes. Felt... more generic than I expected? I think I was looking for slightly more world building than 'c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate' references without any more context.

Noted on January 4, 2022


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