Point of View

The point of view of This Is How You Lose the Time War shifts frequently. About half of the novel takes place in third-person narration. Every other chapter is from the perspective of Red or Blue, respectively. Half of each chapter tends to detail a specific mission they are undertaking to make things go a certain way for their society, and the other half is a letter that they read from the other from their first-person perspective. For example, a chapter may be about Red watching the sinking of Atlantis, until she finds a note from Blue embedded in an object, and then she reads the letter, which is presented to the reader in its entirety; then, the next chapter begins, and starts the process over again. The last several chapters (excepting the final one) are all third-person, and the novel ends with another letter...