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The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

59 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

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

natashadavidson's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

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

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

queermothman's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

Disappointed in how BORING a good chunk of this thing was.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Miscarriage, and Sexual content

Moderate: Ableism, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, and Racism

Minor: Car accident

danajoy's review against another edition

3.0

I've meant to read this for a while. I'm glad I finally did but i don't feel like I've been missing much.
I have some mixed feelings. The characters are flawed and often  unlikable. There are racial stereotypes, slur usage and the line of peodophila is walked very finely. 

The dedication between Clare and Henry is strange - it never feels completely uninfluenced so it's hard to call it love. She meets him as a child and knows he'll be her husband so she builds her mental future around him. When they meet in his lifetime shes had decades of time in the lead up to decide how she'll get him when they finally line up. 
It isn't romantic. It feels like grooming but the argument is that it's simply inevitable. 
They're super horny but i can't say I was overall wooed by their courtship. Henry time travels, Clare waits. That is the dynamic perpetually.

There is some injuries described much more graphically then I'd anticipate or appreciate in this style of book. I wasn't expecting it to be like that. 

Everything felt a bit doomed and tragic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Miscarriage, Blood, Car accident, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Infertility, Racial slurs, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Minor: Rape

idk_indigo's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.75

The fact that Henry and Claire met when she was 6 years old made me pretty uncomfortable throughout most of the novel; I found myself struggling to accept their relationship as, like, not weird and gross for pretty much most of the story. However, towards the end I was still feeling the reservation, however, I still empathized with the relationship. If that makes sense.

I found myself comparing this book to One Day by David Nicholls. Both are a sort of disastrously troubled romance and then both end in an inevitable tragedy. Both are absolutely heartwrenching, but I think the fact that you sort of know what's going to happen the whole book makes this one just so much more heartbreaking. Definitely less of the shock factor than with One Day, but I feel like, just, jeez wow. Especially because there's lowkey a moment where you're like omg maybe it won't happen but then you're like oh never mind it probably will... then okay shit yeah it most definitely will and the fact that it's just a matter of when is so devastating anyways ...

Anyways I am sad once again

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Miscarriage, Grief, and Car accident

Moderate: Sexual content, Medical trauma, Abortion, and Death of parent

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, and Pregnancy

lenorayoder's review against another edition

emotional

• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Better than I thought it would be, but not as good as I hoped it would be once I got into it. It's very interesting to read a fucked up relationship develop from the perspective of the people in it. They do love each other, but they're also overly dependent, unhealthy, and don't communicate well. They are the only people who understand each other, but it is because they have both engineered it to be so. On some level they both know the relationship is doomed, but they don't want to be without each other.

I found the way the author handled time travel interesting, especially the implications of Clare's

deja vu moments, and the sketch with the trimmed date

. The underlying terror that Henry almost constantly feels permeates the book, and one of the unvoiced stumbling blocks of their relationship is that Clare never really seems to understand that fear -

evidenced by the fact that she so desires to have a child that will likely have the same terrible condition

. The way Niffenegger's chosen to depict this story and time travel unfortunately means that the reader never really gets to sit with these characters, and by the end of the book I still felt like I didn't really know them, just their relationship. I wish the book was more narrow in scope, or gave us more insight into what Clare and Henry are like apart. The Time Traveler's Wife is a compelling title, but the book is not about Clare, it's entirely about Clare and Henry's relationship with everything else serving as set dressing. 

Overall enjoyed and would recommend. Sometimes the descriptions and references get a little self-indulgent and pretentious, but seeing this complex relationship evolve from the perspective of two incredibly biased narrators was always interesting and page-turning. Also,

fuck you Gomez. Cherisse, why the fuck did you marry that man, let alone have kids with him. Yikes

. I had to list so many content warnings and I didn't even get them all. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Minor: Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail