The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

[yueni]

Title: The Time Traveler's Wife
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
Number of Pages: 560 pages
Genre: Romance/Science Fiction
Book Number/Goal: 2 of 16 for the year
My Rating: 4.5/5

Review: I really liked this book. The plot was confusing at first with time jumps, but as you get deeper into the book, you start to realise that there really is a method to this madness. Not only that, this book has what I look for (conciously or not) in all my books: character development. Although the language was simple, there was real emotion in it, and I loved to watch the changing point of views and imagine the young couple together change as they interact and deal with Henry's Chrono-Displacement problem. I highly recommend it.

Comments

[amanda_in_pajamas]

I really enjoyed it when I read it as well. I'm looking forward to the movie when it comes out. I don't think it will be nearly as good, but might be good in its own right.

I found the jumps to be disconcerting at first too. But, I had been forewarned, so I was keeping a time line in a notebook as I read. By the middle I thought it was much easier to keep track.

[yueni]

I hadn't really been warned much when I stole the book from a friend (=P it was a 2 night one day train ride, I was bored, he was asleep...), so I pretty much inferred the jumps from the title. It was a little disconcerting at first, but I got used to it pretty quickly, and you are right, it becomes easier to understand by the middle.