This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

A love story written in hunger and colors. In science fiction poetry. Set in time known, unknown, and remade. This book is beautiful and difficult and so very everything. It is flavors and sounds. Nature and machine.

I’m swept away by this story about Red and Blue, two agents on the opposite sides of a time war. Their letters to each other first begin as taunts and then turn into something more, something beyond time but still held within a seed.

This book has made me feel undone and then stitched back together in Red and Blue thread. -Ford