In the beginning of May there was a Twitter post by Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood, who runs a Trigun fan Twitter page. It was short and succinct. A picture of a book This is How You Lose the Time War and the order to read the book. Don’t question it, just get it and read it. It was short, only 200 pages. Just read it.
Within a few days, his tweet went viral and the book that was published in 2019 suddenly became a best seller once again.
I gave into the hype but it took a few days. I will say, I saw the tweet before it blew up and was intrigued. How to get someone to read a book. Tell them nothing about it except it’s short and they absolutely must read it. But even then, I waited. Sci-fi isn’t usually a must-read genre for me so it has to be something good to get me to pick it up. Then the other tweet began. People retweeting the original tweet or replying to it talking about how they read it back in 2019 and fell in love with it. People saying how good the book it, how well written and just amazing it was.
So, I hopped over to my local library a week later and requested it. There was a list.
A week after that, I got it and it took me another week to finally pick it up and start reading it.
Friends. I finished this book in a day.
Holy Crap!
Bigolas Dickolas was right.
The book is short, 200 pages and it’s the story of two enemies, Red and Blue. Red fights for the Agency and Blue fights for the Garden. They were both specifically trained to do what they do, and they are both the best. And that, my friends, is where our story begins.
I don’t want to spoil it for anyone because I feel that everyone should go into this book completely free of expectations. It’s best if you open the cover and go into this story blind. They both identify as women and the story is theirs and theirs completely.
I want to buy this book. I want to buy several copies of this book and give them out to people and shout from the rooftops to read this book. The descriptions of both characters without actually ever describing what either agent truly looks like, and the storytelling that effortlessly weaves its tale is beautiful. It’s tragic. It’s effervescent.
Really. Go read this book. It’s at the front of all the booksellers now, not even hard to find. I’m angry I didn’t know about this book when it was first published.
I jumped over other books because I was just this excited about posting my review of this book. This is the perfect summer day reading my friends, and perfect for the month of June.
So get out there, grab some sun, get your favorite drink, and curl up with a good book.
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