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

3.0

Yes, the story is beautiful, its about true love and waiting for each other. A romantic idea of ​​love that transcends the boundaries of time. I also really enjoyed this book, although I had to get into it at the beginning and that took a while. Fortunately, the book is a long one. But sometimes I found the whole concept a bit problematic. Okay, Henry visits his wife when she was a child and he knows how she will grow up etc. But as far as Clare knows she befriends a grown man as a child who suddenly appears naked to her. HE knows that she will later become his wife, but a random predator could also say that to seduce or kidnap a child. Or am I a pessimist taking in too much true crime? I also got a little nauseous that Henry (at that point in the story a grown man) thinks "is twelve too young?". Uhm, YES creep. Okay then he answers his own question that this is indeed the case, but that this idea is kind of normalized is really strange. Even under these time travel circumstances. But if you leave that whole problematic thing out, it's a nice book. At the beginning it takes some getting used to the timelines and you often have to think about what time it is and who is how old and what have they already experienced or not yet? But at a certain point you get used to it, you understand the timeline better and you immediately will read it faster.