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Red and Blue are time travelers working with the Agency and Garden respectively. They thread themselves through time, altering or influencing events in order to win the war. But what happens when these two agents begin a rivalry correspondence over space and time that eventually forms itself into something more?

Wow..

Is the first word I have for this book. It's so uniquely eloquent in its execution and so layered with context and subtext.

What really just stands out the most about this story, at its center, is the love story between these beings that are supposed to be enemies. The book uses the she pronoun for both Red and Blue over the course of the story, but I could really feel like they went beyond these labels and I think this comes through so well in the vastness of the many times that are visited and influenced by them in their varying forms.

It's supposed to be a relatively short read, but for me, it starts out pretty slow going. Slowly as readers become acquainted with the setting and the story, the characters and the conflicts facing them. Each chapter alternates between Red and Blue with an end cap to each of a letter cleverly left in some time for the other. As their familiarity with each other grows and their love, you see the balance from the different time threads change to that of the letters dominating the chapters and I loved how you could feel them becoming comfortable, becoming more to one another through letters alone.

It's heartrending in the idea of Red and Blue's separation not only often by time, but because they are on different sides of a war. There's a lot that can be interpreted in this book, and in various ways based upon the reader, but I felt like Blue represented nature and Red technology. And when taken in that context in this day and age that we will, the warring between continuing to develop technology, but understanding that in doing so oftentimes we sacrifice this planet we live on. You can really see the perspective of the war they have going on. I absolutely loved the subtly of it all. But please note, this is only one, my, interpretation of it all, there are so many possibilities that one could reach.

At the center is, can Red and Blue ever get to a place where they can be together cohesively?

So despite being a short read, it packs quite the punch and has some real beauty to it, yet it's not so philosophical that anyone should feel alienated from its overarching message / story. A really wonderful read.