Femslash February Challenge: Day 10
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flo_neljaDay 10 of female-centered stories with canon wlws!
This is how you lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Length: It's a novella, won the Hugo and the Nebula in novella categories, so less than 40000 words.
Happy ending or not? Yes!
Who is the wlw? The two main characters, Blue and Red.
Is there other representation? The time travel happens in all kinds of important points in history, and it's refreshing to see relatively few of them are about white history. For the main characters, we don't have any description.
Warnings? Some murder, a lot of it by the main characters.
What about the plot? Two time travellers from two rival factions in the future, trying to make as many timelines as possible become their ideal future.
They start to send each other letters when they cross paths and spoil each other's plans, gloating becomes interest, becomes friendship, becomes love.
How good it is? It's very, very well written, especially the letters.
The worldbuilding is very gradual and the factions quite abstract, at first we don't really understand what's happening, and it can be a bit frustrating.
But the birth of their feelings is anything but abstract, and for me who loves the enemies to lovers trope, it was a perfect little story.
Length: It's a novella, won the Hugo and the Nebula in novella categories, so less than 40000 words.
Happy ending or not? Yes!
Who is the wlw? The two main characters, Blue and Red.
Is there other representation? The time travel happens in all kinds of important points in history, and it's refreshing to see relatively few of them are about white history. For the main characters, we don't have any description.
Warnings? Some murder, a lot of it by the main characters.
What about the plot? Two time travellers from two rival factions in the future, trying to make as many timelines as possible become their ideal future.
They start to send each other letters when they cross paths and spoil each other's plans, gloating becomes interest, becomes friendship, becomes love.
How good it is? It's very, very well written, especially the letters.
The worldbuilding is very gradual and the factions quite abstract, at first we don't really understand what's happening, and it can be a bit frustrating.
But the birth of their feelings is anything but abstract, and for me who loves the enemies to lovers trope, it was a perfect little story.
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Date: 2021-02-16 10:56 pm (UTC)I thought I was going to enjoy this novella, because it sounded like exactly the sort of story I would like. (I love scifi, epistolary stories, enemies to lovers, time travel...) But I stopped reading about one-third of the way in for exactly this reason: The worldbuilding is very gradual and the factions quite abstract, at first we don't really understand what's happening, and it can be a bit frustrating.
Maybe I should give it another try!
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Date: 2021-02-17 07:47 am (UTC)