A review by maralisephoto
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

2.0

The lyricism of the writing was (miraculously) not diminished by the time-traveling element (I know. I KNOW). The main characters were intimate, caring, loving and in every way 3-dimensional. And yet the author insisted on short-cutting that relationship by often describing love-making as 'fucking' when clearly, that is not what these two were doing. Her use of profanity, in these instances, was insulting to my understanding of the beauty and mystery of two lives intermingling both spiritually and physically. It cheapens the experience to something that could have easily been done with a prostitute, and therefore is not true to the characters that the author painstakingly (and for the most part, successfully) creates.

And for this, the story failed to capture my intellect even if it held my attention.