Another one that I read for book club that I would not have necessarily picked up otherwise. Honestly, I’m a bit conflicted with it. 

The novel is about two agents on opposite sides of the war. What may have started as an attempt to turn each other, eventually leads to a budding romance of a sort. Through their correspondences, they are truly free, truly themselves, and therefore it’s all the more alluring. Not only must they hide the letters to each other throughout time and space, they must also shield their minds from the leaders that would surely turn them in. 

The correspondences, as well as why they are feeling the way they are, are quite beautiful. The nature of needing more and finding it in the strangest place is perhaps a cliche, however it’s completely modified by them being fully crafted, time traveling soldiers. They visit strands of time (the description of which brought to mind the Marvel show Loki for me) stealing, kidnapping, killing, and pretty much whatever else is required of them. So them finding each other, and sharing these desires, is practically impossible. Yet it happened all the same. That’s what I really liked. 

What I struggled with, was the lack of everything else. While it wasn’t necessarily the fact that it was missing, it could be awfully confusing when little snippets were dropped. I wanted more. More description, more explanation, more scifi craziness. Without it, and it being so short, I found it to be kind of lacking. It just needed a bit more to glue it all together for me.