This Is How You Lose the Time War

I found this one of the most difficult books I've ever read. The prose is sumptuous but so distracting I couldn't follow the razor thin plot, the voices are nearly indistinguishable, and the love affair is unbelievable. It's only a novella, about two hundred pages, but it took me about three days to read. You can't read it quickly because you might miss something amidst all the flowery word choices. It's an epistolary story, with letters being written between two people. I somehow was expecting a better book considering the high average ratings it has on different review websites, including Worlds Without End. And somehow, it won both the Hugo and Nebula for Novella. I just didn't really get it, no matter how many times I read the summary description of the story.

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