Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

78 reviews

mbelle97's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

I'm so conflicted on this book. I thought the prose was often very beautiful, but I hated almost everything else about it LOL the age gap freaked me out even when she was 20 and he was 28, when she was a child and he was 30+ it felt soooooo gross. it was also just, long and kind of boring. I didn't really buy the chemistry between Henry and Clare, they have nothing in common besides how much they love to have sex. I figured out that

Henry was probably going to die

about halfway through and then spent the rest of the book just waiting for it to happen. Maybe it could have been more compelling if I cared about any of the characters at all, but as it `tood it was just a lot of nothing vignettes of the lives of uninteresting, privileged white people feeling sorry for themselves. Sigh. Feel like it could have been great. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Drug abuse, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Suicide, Blood, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

icy1's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Miscarriage, Suicide, Blood, Car accident, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Gore and Sexual content

khalilauren's review against another edition

Henry meets Clare for the first time when she’s 6 and he’s 40-something because he time traveled and doesn’t choose where or when in the past or future he goes to. So, she grows up meeting him multiple times and falls in love with him and they marry when she much older, but have sex for the first time when she is 18. It doesn’t say how old he is when that happens because she just is recounting it to someone else. It just kinda gives me the ick. She doesn’t want to date other people as a teenager - you get the impression she’s saving herself for him. He flirts with her while she’s a teen and he’s in his 40’s. It must gave me the ick. Ultimately looked up the spoiler synopsis for the end online and skipped reading the rest of the book even if I only had about 230 pages left. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Pedophilia

lizvai's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

So original and moving. I was hooked from the first page. Such a convincing love story and some beautiful characters. Adult/minor relationship was pretty weird and went unaddressed tho

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Suicide, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Terminal illness, and Alcohol

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

k_jean's review against another edition

The "love affair" was glorified grooming and it was too close to pedophilia for me. A 36 year old man touching the feet of a 13 year old who will later become his wife was unsettling. The author was sure to say nothing sexual happened until she was 18 and he was 40. ..

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Pedophilia

sadiech's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Body horror

breeyore's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Just finished this book and I already want to read it again. My emotions may never recover. Also I’m completely in love with Henry the time traveling punk rock librarian.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Suicide, Blood, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Infidelity, and Violence

plotsandplants's review

emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Miscarriage, Suicide, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Minor: Child death, Homophobia, Sexual violence, and Terminal illness

spousal death

radmartigan's review against another edition

I went into this book thinking it was a sweet Hallmark-esque story. It is anything but that. Granted I didn't finish it, but as soon as I got to the point where

two 15-year-old Henry's have sex with each other

it was too much. It was already too much

with the blatant grooming that Henry was doing to Clare

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

possum_teeth's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug use, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Medical content, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Minor: Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail