I'm really starting to dislike time travel stories, because this is pretty much how you have to tell them. They aren't "stories" because stories have beginnings, middles, and ends. Time travel stories have no end. So the description of how a time war would work is pretty right on. And it's good to have an accurate framework to hang your "story" (narrative, tale, whatever) on.
The book is a love story, unapologetically so. Some are reading this as LGBTQ+, but the relationship between Red and Blue is not in any way sexual--it is agapic, if anything. The love is fueled by the highly cryptic means by which they communicate--letters as patterns in feathers, burning paper, flavors, etc. The descriptions of the form the letters take is probably my favorite part of the book.
That said, in order to truly enjoy it you have to enjoy romance of this sort. While I value it, it doesn't excite me the way a good space opera does. It was an interesting read, and well executed, but in the end just OK for me.
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