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3.93 AVERAGE
3.93 AVERAGE
While I really, really, wanted to love this book because I'd heard so many great things about it, I just didn't. I had a difficult time feeling emotionally invested in the characters. I found Clare to be boring, detached, uninteresting, cold, and elitist. If the book was set in the late 1800's or early 1900's, I could have believed that the family would have a black woman named Mammie as their cook, but this was supposedly in the 1970's-1990's?!!
I also had a hard time believing that Henry, after years and years of womanizing, drinking, drugging, etc, drops all those behaviors for Clare just because she tells him they are supposed to get married. I never saw the passionate love story that others raved about.
I also had a hard time believing that Henry, after years and years of womanizing, drinking, drugging, etc, drops all those behaviors for Clare just because she tells him they are supposed to get married. I never saw the passionate love story that others raved about.
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I remember I bought my first copy of The Time Traveler’s Wife at Festival Walk, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong in a bookstore called Page One. It must have been 2008 or 2009, and I remember being all choked up by this epic story of love.
A couple of years later, I bought another copy in Dutch (no memories of when and where
A couple of years later, I bought another copy in Dutch (no memories of when and where
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Enjoyed the movie as a teen but, reading as an adult now their relationship just seems creepy. Couldn't get past the ick factor.
This book was amazing. The only only books that have affected me so strongly were the Harry Potter series. I couldn't get the story out of my head all day!
emotional
sad
medium-paced
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Why is it that all the books that I read at the minute seem to break my heart?
I just want to gobble Henry, Clare and Alba up and keep them all safe.
5 stars over and over again for heart break and tears.
Well done Audrey Niffenegger for reducing me to sobbing and tears in the middle of Costa at 8:30am.
I just want to gobble Henry, Clare and Alba up and keep them all safe.
5 stars over and over again for heart break and tears.
Well done Audrey Niffenegger for reducing me to sobbing and tears in the middle of Costa at 8:30am.