Two agents who help wage war throughout time, to ensure their futures come to fruition, begin exchanging letters.
Red and Blue are on different sides of a war that is being raged through all points in time. Red is from a technologically advanced future, she herself is part machine. While Blue is from a more nature based future where people are one with each other. They begin exchanging letters when Blue leaves a letter taunting Red at the sight of her loss. The book is structured chapter by chapter focusing on the letters that they send to one another. The letters they send are hardly ever though words on paper they are told through the flow of lava, the bark of a tree, tea-leaves, and the entrails of an animal. The book is written in an almost poetic style. The letters are never simple correspondence, they have layers that can be interpreted any number of ways. Red and Blue feel like they are from completely different universes, but have more similarities than we can first see. The book is the blossoming of their correspondence and an example of what can happen when enemies begin to talk to one another.
A beautiful, poetic science fiction novella that shows that soldiers on opposite sides of a war have more in common than what first meets the eye.
ISBN: 9781534431003
Publisher: Saga Press
Categories: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Time Travel
Page Count: 208
Publishing Date: July 16, 2019
I have heard of this book before but never really knew what it was about. Your review was really informative and makes me think I may enjoy it. I think it was awesome for you to mention the different ways their interactions between red and blue are incorporated into the story cause it made it more interesting.
ReplyDeleteWow, this was amazing! I loved your summary and description. I am 100% not a sci-fi person, but this review has made me want to read this book. It seems like the letters are integral to the story, so I really enjoy how you described how they are written.
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