The Time Traveler's Wife in Overdue Podcast

Jan 14, 2017 Barrett Lafortune rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, audiobook

The Time Traveler's Wife is a romance story about Claire and Henry. Henry has a condition where he spontaneously time travels, usually to the past but sometimes to the future. He can't control his time travel episodes or where/when he goes to. The story plays with Claire and Henry's out-of-sync timelines and explores their relationship over several decades.

The time travel aspect of this book is well done and it creates an interesting story. However, when you have a character that can spontaneous ...more

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Mar 01, 2018 Lore rated it did not like it · review of another edition

I was expecting a sci-fi book (because time-travel) but it's not really sci-fi, or the elements around that particular subject in this book are not enough to be consider a science fiction book.
It's a "romance" book with a character that sometimes goes back and forward (mostly back) in time, within the period of time of his own life.

It could have been such an amazing book, the premise is wonderful, but it lacks depth. There's a lot of topics that could of been discuss here: eating disorders, dr ...more

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Aug 30, 2017 Lisa rated it liked it

I enjoyed more than half of this book, but ultimately it left me quite depressed. I will never read it again, and immediately after finishing it I regretted having read it in the first place. It was a very interesting read and the fragmentary style of multiple timelines was very enjoyable to piece together, but the plot itself left me frustrated and upset in the end.

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