Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in this thrilling and romantic book from award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.
In the ashes of a dying world, Red finds a letter marked “Burn before reading. Signed, Blue.”
So begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents in a war that stretches through the vast reaches of time and space.
Red belongs to the Agency, a post-singularity technotopia. Blue belongs to Garden, a single vast consciousness embedded in all organic matter. Their pasts are bloody and their futures mutually exclusive. They have nothing in common—save that they’re the best, and they’re alone.
Now what began as a battlefield boast grows into a dangerous game, one both Red and Blue are determined to win. Because winning’s what you do in war. Isn’t it?
A tour de force collaboration from two powerhouse writers that spans the whole of time and space.
In the ashes of a dying world, Red finds a letter marked “Burn before reading. Signed, Blue.”
So begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents in a war that stretches through the vast reaches of time and space.
Red belongs to the Agency, a post-singularity technotopia. Blue belongs to Garden, a single vast consciousness embedded in all organic matter. Their pasts are bloody and their futures mutually exclusive. They have nothing in common—save that they’re the best, and they’re alone.
Now what began as a battlefield boast grows into a dangerous game, one both Red and Blue are determined to win. Because winning’s what you do in war. Isn’t it?
A tour de force collaboration from two powerhouse writers that spans the whole of time and space.
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bennett_the_ceo
(Grade: D) To the authors' credit, this collaborative novella manages to craft a unified voice. It's too bad their literary experiment equates to a heap of overly poetic nonsense. There's an intentional lack of world-building, plus no attempt at orientating the reader, which serves to create frustration on each page. The epistolary chapters at least give the two main characters some recognizable voice, though their romance materializes from nothing and just becomes another vessel for the authors' wordplay.
(Grade: D) To the authors' credit, this collaborative novella manages to craft a unified voice. It's too bad their literary experiment equates to a heap of overly poetic nonsense. There's an intentional lack of world-building, plus no attempt at orientating the reader, which serves to create frustration on each page. The epistolary chapters at least give the two main characters some recognizable voice, though their romance materializes from nothing and just becomes another vessel for the authors' wordplay.(Rated on May 22, 2020)
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panoramix (Grade: B) So, I'm not a fan of romance, and I'm so very very weary of time travel stories, yet this one was a new kind of delightful. Very nearly five stars.
(Rated on Jun 2, 2020)
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lala (Grade: C) uhhh liked the letter bits, did not like the prose bits, liked the ending.
(Rated on Jun 16, 2020)
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izzy (Grade: B) I feel like I’m not smart enough for this book. The prose was beautiful and I want to reread it not in audio form to have more thoughts.
(Rated on Jun 17, 2020)
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PygmyPuff Reads (Grade: B) Brava, my pomegranate. Well done. Nine out of ten. (4/5 stars
(Rated on Jun 17, 2020)
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