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littlebubblegum's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Suicide
alelumino's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
i can find no flaws in this book. it is simply magnificent & a whole different world to read. reading this book overtime was undescriable honestly, maybe nostaglic actually. u have to read it for urself and the ending of the book left me speechless to say the least.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death and Suicide
alldivviedup's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Miscarriage and Death of parent
Moderate: Suicide
Minor: Vomit
flowers_and_cows's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
The story of Clare and Henry was surprisingly easy to follow, even with all of Henry's time traveling. A great story, and the ending left me wanting and wishing that there was more.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Miscarriage, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Suicide, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent
ejoymiller11's review against another edition
emotional
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
I am not usually a tough critic, but I did not love this for several reasons.
1. This story (in my opinion) was told backwards, and would last the test of time better had it been told the other way around. Being about time travel, the story bounces around quite a bit. However, I would argue the story more closely follows Clare’s linear timeline. Before we actually get to know the two main characters as a couple, the first half of the book is about how Clare knew Henry as a child and teenager. We learn about Henry’s lustful thoughts about her even when she is underage, even when she is prepubescent, which made me very uncomfortable. In my opinion, had we learned about their adult relationship first by strictly following Henry’s timeline, and had Henry just straight up not had inappropriate thoughts about a CHILD, I think the relationship would seem less creepy (but let’s be honest, some of what happened would be creepy, inappropriate, and sick regardless).
2. About 200 pages of the 536 pages I read weren’t relevant. I don’t understand why certain scenes were necessary as they didn’t contribute to the plot, character development, or context of the story. The whole infidelity thing? For what.
3. INCONSISTENCIES. And inaccuracies. Some of this book just straight up didn’t make sense. I found myself wondering SO many times, “did the author do literally ANY research??” Yes, probably with certain art pieces and music mentioned in the story, but certainly not how pregnancy, miscarriage, birth, hypothermia, and other medical things work. Furthermore, so many times the book would mention something like “they decided to leave the kids at home!” And on the next page, “the kids were playing quietly in the corner.” Like did no one proofread this? I’m lost.
4. Sometimes it was really hard to understand who was speaking. The book bounces between Henry’s and Clare’s perspectives, but in sections of the dialogue there are long stretches with no indication of who is speaking. Several times I had to go back and reread to understand the context of what was happening and what the characters were feeling.
I felt like this was a great concept that was so poorly executed. This could be a fantastic, timeless love story, but it just fell flat for me. The writing combined with the characters who weren’t just flawed, but horrible people, ruined it for me.
1. This story (in my opinion) was told backwards, and would last the test of time better had it been told the other way around. Being about time travel, the story bounces around quite a bit. However, I would argue the story more closely follows Clare’s linear timeline. Before we actually get to know the two main characters as a couple, the first half of the book is about how Clare knew Henry as a child and teenager. We learn about Henry’s lustful thoughts about her even when she is underage, even when she is prepubescent, which made me very uncomfortable. In my opinion, had we learned about their adult relationship first by strictly following Henry’s timeline, and had Henry just straight up not had inappropriate thoughts about a CHILD, I think the relationship would seem less creepy (but let’s be honest, some of what happened would be creepy, inappropriate, and sick regardless).
2. About 200 pages of the 536 pages I read weren’t relevant. I don’t understand why certain scenes were necessary as they didn’t contribute to the plot, character development, or context of the story. The whole infidelity thing? For what.
3. INCONSISTENCIES. And inaccuracies. Some of this book just straight up didn’t make sense. I found myself wondering SO many times, “did the author do literally ANY research??” Yes, probably with certain art pieces and music mentioned in the story, but certainly not how pregnancy, miscarriage, birth, hypothermia, and other medical things work. Furthermore, so many times the book would mention something like “they decided to leave the kids at home!” And on the next page, “the kids were playing quietly in the corner.” Like did no one proofread this? I’m lost.
4. Sometimes it was really hard to understand who was speaking. The book bounces between Henry’s and Clare’s perspectives, but in sections of the dialogue there are long stretches with no indication of who is speaking. Several times I had to go back and reread to understand the context of what was happening and what the characters were feeling.
I felt like this was a great concept that was so poorly executed. This could be a fantastic, timeless love story, but it just fell flat for me. The writing combined with the characters who weren’t just flawed, but horrible people, ruined it for me.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Miscarriage, Suicide, and Car accident
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Chronic illness, Drug use, Infertility, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail
vannahcabana's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
3.5
The timeline of this book is all over the place since it’s about time-traveling. You really need to pay attention to the dates/ages given of the characters before reading the section. Otherwise, you’ll be completely lost! It is a fairly good read though!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content and Suicide
Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail
megzola's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
I really liked this book but I didn’t love it, the way it’s written is deeply interesting but it’s a little slow
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Death, Suicide, and Death of parent
crashiebang's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Miscarriage, Car accident, and Death of parent
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Gore, Suicide, and Grief
mrs_reading_runes's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
The Time Traveler’s Wife
By: Audrey Niffenegger
⭐️⭐️⭐️
Trigger Warnings⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️
Suicide
Pedophilia
Sex & Violence
Many have watched the movie and show.
This is the origin, this is NOT a love story as expected in my opinion its a tragedy.
Henry is a time traveler, that witnesses death and sadness at a young age. This creates his path of a life of drugs and alcohol.
Clare is 6 when she meets Henry who is already middle aged. This is Clare’s present and Henrys Past, Present and Future.
As they are already married in Henrys present with his belief he cannot change the pst and future he in a way grooms her to love him. First as a person and friend then romantically.
See she’s not given a choice but this is debatable. Henry is the first and only man she loves besides her father.
AT AGE 6!!
The story is confusing in the aspect of dates and times because how old is he in his present, the past and future as he time travels I eventually skipped over the dates.
You will meet Gomez, Henrys “best friend” he makes me sick.
This book really is about Clarethe girl with no free will, tortured by love and time.
I cried when I finished this read because it was exhausting. This is no happy ending it is all very sad.
Deep down in the plot,between each line of text there is a love story however if I didn’t LOVE the movie and the show, this book would have been 1 star or DNF which I have never done.
I appreciate the authors imagery and the development with so many moving parts but I am sad that the movie and show was better then the book. 😒
By: Audrey Niffenegger
⭐️⭐️⭐️
Trigger Warnings⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️
Suicide
Pedophilia
Sex & Violence
Many have watched the movie and show.
This is the origin, this is NOT a love story as expected in my opinion its a tragedy.
Henry is a time traveler, that witnesses death and sadness at a young age. This creates his path of a life of drugs and alcohol.
Clare is 6 when she meets Henry who is already middle aged. This is Clare’s present and Henrys Past, Present and Future.
As they are already married in Henrys present with his belief he cannot change the pst and future he in a way grooms her to love him. First as a person and friend then romantically.
See she’s not given a choice but this is debatable. Henry is the first and only man she loves besides her father.
AT AGE 6!!
The story is confusing in the aspect of dates and times because how old is he in his present, the past and future as he time travels I eventually skipped over the dates.
You will meet Gomez, Henrys “best friend” he makes me sick.
This book really is about Clarethe girl with no free will, tortured by love and time.
I cried when I finished this read because it was exhausting. This is no happy ending it is all very sad.
Deep down in the plot,between each line of text there is a love story however if I didn’t LOVE the movie and the show, this book would have been 1 star or DNF which I have never done.
I appreciate the authors imagery and the development with so many moving parts but I am sad that the movie and show was better then the book. 😒
Content Warnings
Graphic: Pedophilia and Suicide
Moderate: Miscarriage
Minor: Sexual violence
kbeva's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Sexual content
Minor: Suicide