Ji FU reviewed The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Not very good
2 stars
I went into listening to this audiobook not really knowing a lot about it save its title and that it was popular enough to have been made into a movie.
This is not really a science fiction book at all, even though the title would lead you to believe. The Time Travel of the title is no Jules Verne character but a 21st century heart throb who has some kind of disease that forces him into other points in time without his ability to anything about. He can't take anything with him, so he always shows up naked, so he spends most of his time running and trying to find clothes. Somehow one of those naked adventures was to meet a 7 year old girl who would end up being his wife.
At the begining they author made it very clear that there are no multiverses, there is no possibility …
I went into listening to this audiobook not really knowing a lot about it save its title and that it was popular enough to have been made into a movie.
This is not really a science fiction book at all, even though the title would lead you to believe. The Time Travel of the title is no Jules Verne character but a 21st century heart throb who has some kind of disease that forces him into other points in time without his ability to anything about. He can't take anything with him, so he always shows up naked, so he spends most of his time running and trying to find clothes. Somehow one of those naked adventures was to meet a 7 year old girl who would end up being his wife.
At the begining they author made it very clear that there are no multiverses, there is no possibility of screwing up the past or the future, stuff just happens.
The worst part of it, however, is the overly descriptive passages about dead babies. Clair and Henry loose something like 5 different kids, eventually learning that they are time traveling out of Clair's womb without the needed connection to mom to survive. This is the main reason it took me months to finish it, because I kept having to turn it off due to how nauseated it made my stomach.