The Time Traveler's Wife

Paperback, 518 pages

Published by Harvest / Harcourt, Inc..

ISBN:
978-0-9658186-7-4
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3 stars (1 review)

Audrey Niffenegger's innovative debut, The Time Traveler's Wife, is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity in his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences unpredictable, alternately harrowing and amusing. (source)

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Manipulative and compelling

3 stars

Let's be honest: this is NOT a good book. It is a bit shallow and manipulative as hell. Still, I could not give it less than three stars because I had a pretty good time reading it. By the end, I was sucked in into the story so much that I literally cried. It left me with the feeling I get after watching a 3-hour Hollywood love story on a sad, sunny Sunday afternoon. Sure, you COULD do something better with your time, but why should you?