Big Tome Energy Book Club May Pick - This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Join us at our next meeting for Big Tome Energy, Dear Reader's own fantasy book club. Each month, we will read a different fantasy, romantasy or science fiction book then meet at the bookstore to discuss over bites and bevvies with bookish friends! 

Meeting Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Meeting Time: 7pm

Book Selection: This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

About the Book

From award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone comes an enthralling, romantic novel spanning time and space about two time-traveling rivals who fall in love and must change the past to ensure their future.

Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandment finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading.

Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, becomes something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.

Except the discovery of their bond would mean the death of each of them. There's still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win. That's how war works, right?

Cowritten by two beloved and award-winning sci-fi writers, This Is How You Lose the Time War is an epic love story spanning time and space.