{"id":3364,"date":"2021-11-29T08:50:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T23:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=3364"},"modified":"2021-11-29T08:50:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T23:50:56","slug":"books-this-is-how-you-lose-the-time-war-by-amal-el-mohtar-and-max-gladstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=3364","title":{"rendered":"Books: This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here is a book that I really enjoyed. The story of two agents battling against each other through time &#8211; with plenty of world building and epic letter writing. This isn\u2019t a particularly long book, but it is chock full of detail, and still I wanted more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We visit places and get tantalizing glimpses of lives lived and battles lost, and hidden amongst these scenes are communications subtle and nearly invisible except to the intended targets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I liked how this book handled time travel &#8211; not as a gimmick but an essential part of the characters\u2019 lives. The mysteries are well placed and satisfyingly revealed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After reading the book I was ready to read it again and catch more details, and I almost wish that the authors would spend more time digging deeper into the worlds they created. This book could easily be expanded into an longer epic-scale novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of my favorite books this year &#8211; and one I\u2019ll come back to in the future. Next I\u2019m reading The Collector by John Fowles. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a book that I really enjoyed. The story of two agents battling against each other through time &#8211; with plenty of world building and epic letter writing. This isn\u2019t a particularly long book, but it is chock full of detail, and still I wanted more. We visit places and get tantalizing glimpses of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-3364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOpl7-Sg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}