The Time Traveler's Wife in The Complete Idiots Guide to the Ultimate Reading List

Apr 25, 2010 Lisa (Harmonybites) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: romance, popular-fiction, ebooks, ultimate-reading-list, fiction, literary-fiction, novels, science-fiction, fantasy, contemporary

Henry DeTamble has a "chrono-impairment." In the our near future, many will have this impediment, but when Henry is growing up and a young adult, he believes he's alone in his uncontrolled time traveling. Since he was five-years-old, he's spontaneously slipped out of his present time. Clare, who became his wife, has had visits from him since she was six-years-old. The narrative jumps from both their first person tales and weaves in and out of time, telling the story about how they met, fell in l ...more

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Sep 25, 2009 Yulia rated it really liked it

Shelves: romance, fantasy, time-travel

It was a nice book, not excellent but you'll probably remember it because the plot was unusual...
It was pretty realistic with all the difficulties the couple has, and sure there was romance but the level of the romance wasn't to my taste I guess, since for me it's more like drama..
And the part where they jump back and forward in time got on my nerves because in the end I didn't get what happened after what in a time line.. and those point of view jump didn't help either (though it was nice knowi ...more

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Aug 30, 2009 Rachel Dono rated it did not like it

I absolutely hated this book! There was no real connection throughout this book and was constintly disjointed.

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Dec 20, 2009 Tara rated it really liked it

I really liked the complexity of time traveling in this book that we really never understand. It was a very interesting read. The movie was good, but you have to read the book to get the whole scoop.

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Aug 12, 2009 Meredith Hall rated it it was amazing

Shelves: books-read-in-book-club

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Nov 04, 2009 Candace Petersen Martineau rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This book had beautiful imagery and was very well-written. The concept was very interesting as well. I deducted a star, though, for the sexual content that, I felt, was excessive.

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