 Hi, I'm Kate, and this is Bitesize Book Review. Today I will be reviewing This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Matar and Max Gladstone. This is a science fiction novella, so red and blue work against each other in different factions in the Time War. They are agents, assassins, very violent. They are rivals, and they begin to start exchanging letters, initially mocking each other and baiting each other a little bit. But through their correspondence, they begin to slowly fall in love across time, space, and enemy lines. I really liked the epistolary format, the letters themselves were absolutely beautiful. And I also really enjoyed seeing the situation that the reader was in when they read the letter beforehand, so sort of a bit of prose, a bit of epistolary sort of thing going on. I loved our two main characters. Red and blue were very distinctive people, and I liked that their factions were very distinctive in that they were coming to This Time War, and their relationship with very obvious, different, specifically aestheticized perspectives that I thought was very cool. I loved watching them grow and change as well, because it was absolutely gorgeous. And the writing as a vehicle for them was beautiful. It was lyrical and poetic, very evocative and vivid, and I absolutely loved it. What I didn't like so much was the narrator. I listened to this on audiobook, and I don't think I would recommend that. I wasn't very jazzed by the narrator's performance, and it just left a few things wanting for me. I think I would have preferred to read this in print. Ultimately, I gave this 4 out of 5 stars. I would recommend this for anyone who's looking for a queer romance that is short but manages to really pack a punch, and I would recommend it for people who like character-driven science fiction. That's all I've got for you today. Thank you for watching, and I'll see you next time.