Carolyn B. (BookwormCMB) - , reviewed on 7/28/2008 + 3 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 3

I found the concept of the book -- a man who time travels and is able to visit his wife's past and get to know her before he knows her -- to be very intriguing. Intellectually, I really enjoyed the book and wrapping my head around the plot and the timeline, which was confusing at times. However, I had some real problems with the book as well. I found some of the content much too sexually explicit. And the fact that the adult Henry starts visiting the child Clare (so he can meet the woman/child who he will eventually meet and marry in the "present") is more than a little creepy. There were also a few plot problems. By the time Henry and Clare are together as a couple in the here and now, Clare has already known him since she was a child and could have prevented certain outcomes by telling him what she already knew. Mostly I was annoyed because by the time the book ended, it seemed that Niffenegger had forgotten some of the rules of time travel that she had set, and invented new ones, to suit her purposes of wrapping up the novel. Again, it was intriguing and a very interesting book, but frustrating and creepy/gross (at times), too.

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