The Time Traveler's Wife in Crazy Challenge Connection

Aug 24, 2011 Book Concierge rated it it was ok

Shelves: concierge, library

Henry DeTamble is a time traveler. He has no control over when or where he travels, and he can’t take anything with him, so he always arrives naked and without money, ID or food. The book chronicles Henry’s life and that of his wife, Clare Abshire … at least to early middle-age. How they met, when they met, who remembers whom, how they fall in love, and most importantly, how they deal with Henry’s condition.

Basically I was bored with this story. It jumps back and forth in time, and while I unde ...more

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Mar 03, 2009 Barbara ★ rated it it was ok

Shelves: x-set-in-usa-michigan, fiction, time-travel, read-2009, x-set-in-usa-illinois, debut

This is a romance novel of a different sort than I am accustomed to. Henry time travels and meets his current wife, Clare, when she is 6 years old and he is 34. The entire book is kinda like a his and her diary. There are incidents written from Clare's point of view and some from Henry's. It is very interesting but a really slow read with all the time traveling backwards and forewards and trying to keep track of where (and when) everyone is.

There really doesn't seem to be any point to the time ...more

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Jun 30, 2013 Nancy rated it liked it

I would give this 3 1/2 stars because I didn't hate it. It was just about 100 pages too long, which, for me, detracted from the whole book so that I felt it was getting unnecessary. I really loved the concept, and I loved having to think hard to get my head around the logic of it. I really enjoyed how Henry's life and those he was involved with was a chaos of cause and effect without ever really knowing which was which. Henry as a character grew on me a little, although I wasn't enormously fond ...more

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Mar 14, 2009 Marisa added it

Shelves: romance, fiction, read-for-second-time

I had a hard tim at the beginning of this book, but once I figured out the whole time travel and how it was written thing i really enjoyed this book. I would reccommend it to people. As long as you can stick it out through the beginning it is worth it.

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