The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

My review

Everyone has been raving about this book and my mother finally leant it to me, and I finally read it, and here I am not so pleased with Miss Niffenegger. Overall, the plot was unchanging, without any kind of momentum, and solely about marriage. Now, I have no problem with marriage, weddings, babies, ect...BUT I must admit that I am uninterested in that if there is nothing else to complicate it. Yes, I understand that the protagonist time-travels which makes their situation special, but it almost exacerbated the marriage-story because it meant that Clare (the wife) never had another choice. And speaking of Clare, who could have been the most interesting character in the book, was written like a china doll. She is an artist, she has red hair. She is worried a lot and wants a child. The author offers no depth, no character development, no hook to grab on to. Ultimately, I would describe this as a failed love story.


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