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A review by lilith89ibz
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
2.0
I picked this up because I started watching the tv show adaptation and liked it, and the book is... much worse. Particularly the beginning. The way the reveals are written are quite anticlimactic, it's unnecessarily violent and depressing to a ridiculous degree () Just throw some more disgraces in to spice it up, why don't you. It's also occasionally crass for absolutely no reason.
Age gap relationships in adults are fine. Going out of your way as a writer to make the age gap as big as possible for any sort of sexual interaction when the younger person is as young as legally permissible is something you really don't have to do on purpose. I mean, they're characters. It's not hurting anyone. But why would you make it so weird for no reason.
The writing is fine. The characters are fine. They're really not that deep. The doomed but fated love is very melodramatic. The Odyssey reference felt like a reach. Don't get me started on the attempt at making sense of the time travel with... genetics. And finally, Carmen and Madama Butterfly are barely compatible, and people did use to sing them both (at least one of them badly) in the 70s, but Lulu? Girl, no.
Spoiler
Death by decapitation! And it wasn't enough that the 16-year-old got raped, she had to be beaten with a belt and burned with a cigarette! And Clare's mother dies from cancer! And not one, not two, but SEVEN miscarriages! And Ingrid had to shoot herself in front of Henry! And also feet amputation! Am I forgetting something?Age gap relationships in adults are fine. Going out of your way as a writer to make the age gap as big as possible for any sort of sexual interaction when the younger person is as young as legally permissible is something you really don't have to do on purpose. I mean, they're characters. It's not hurting anyone. But why would you make it so weird for no reason.
The writing is fine. The characters are fine. They're really not that deep. The doomed but fated love is very melodramatic. The Odyssey reference felt like a reach. Don't get me started on the attempt at making sense of the time travel with... genetics. And finally, Carmen and Madama Butterfly are barely compatible, and people did use to sing them both (at least one of them badly) in the 70s, but Lulu? Girl, no.