The Time Travelers Wife

Author: Audrey Niffenegger





I read this book for two reasons. The first was that my daughter bought it for me for Christmas. The second was because I am interested in the time travel aspect of the story. It took me about 2 and a half weeks to read this story. I found it interesting that the main character traveled involuntarily through time. Without reason or control, the main character would be flashed away and sent to important or random times in the main characters life or lives of people he knew.





The story itself was a little too long. It revolved around the main character and his future wife. I thought it was going to end when the wife and the main character finally get together. But it continued into the two of them and their struggle to have a child. After that part of the story concludes it steps into more of the same until the demise of the main character. But becasue the main character traveled through time he continued to pop up even after he was dead. It was a strange story to follow. But very interesting twist in the aspect of time travel.

I found it frustrating that the main character believed that nothing could be changed. Even though he traveled through time and sometimes even spent time with himself at different ages, I thought he should be able to change something. It was a very frustrating part of the story. In retrospect, it would be a much more difficult story to follw otherwise. Since the character was unable to change things, some of the story became predictable.

There were a couple parts of this book that I would not let my children read. I thought that the story itself was harmless, but they threw in a couple of sex scenes that were pretty descriptive.

All in all, this book was too romantic for my liking. The time travel was interesting. And there were a couple parts of the story that I found exciting and unpredictable. I enjoyed the read, but would caution referring this book to a guy who likes action and violence.