Review on: Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Rating: 5/5
Recommended
Time Traveler’s Wife is one of the most fascinating, dramatic, confusing, heart-wrenching, not-so-fairy-tale dream stories I’ve ever read. The book is filled with so much emotion, so much feelings, conflicting yet in-sync, happy yet dreadful, a book full of so many ironies that in some way just make sense.
Meet Henry, a time-traveler that is able to distort his time because of a rare genetic disease. Because of this disease, Henry has no control over when or where he time-travels. Because of this, and another problem – whenever he time travels he cannot bring anything with him so always appears naked wherever he arrives, Henry has learned to fend for himself and do whatever it takes for him to survive until he returns to his own time. One day, he meets Clare, who has known him for her entire life. His future self has constantly time traveled to her past, and here, they meet and eventually fall in love, both in the present and in the past.
The couple encounter so many problems from Henry’s constant disappearance, to eventually, their being unable to have children because of his genetic disorder which he has passed down to his not-yet-born embryo children. Add to that a world that cannot be altered, where the present and the past and the future are all but one existing reality, and where changing fate just doesn’t happen.
