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I read this book two to three times up to now and am sure to pick it up again in the future.
Richard Garfinkle creates one huge metaphor for time travel and works with it to the last consequence.

Time travel is done by a chosen few tribes, who swim in the ocean of time, every movement they make creating a wave which in turn changes the world of normal people.
These changes are secondary to the travelers, change in the real world is constant, no one knows what the original history has once been. But every tribe tries to install it's own version of it, and so every tribe is in constant war with the other tribes.

The story and the writing are pretty speacial - most of the time you don't even think about the fact that you are reading about time travel. And I understand if not everyone can come to terms with this.

But I think that if you manage to engage in the story, you get a very creative and new look on the whole time travel-thing which is absolutely worth a try.