This innovative debut is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: triggered by emotions and memories, his genetic clock resets and he finds himself misplaced in time. His disappearances are spontaneous and his experiences are unpredictable. Through Henry's time travel the couple attempt to live normal lives, but all of this is threatened by something neither can control.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Suprisingly Simple in its complexity
Comment: My book group selected this book. I didn't really know much about it going in.

I was quickly impressed by the way the author was able to take such a complicated plotline with characters interacting with each other at different ages throughout their lives and make it easy to follow.

It was a really different take on time travel than I had ever read before---not a scifi "go back and fix history" book, not about paradoxes and alternate universes--and I enjoyed the fresh view of the idea. This vision of time travel is much more believable to me.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: A great idea decently executed
Comment: I really liked parts of this book. The concept is great, the first section of the book was really good, and there were some really nice moments through out.
I also disliked some parts of this book. Its really sad, probably too sad. I actually almost stopped reading the book after the first part because I could tell that it was going to become really depressing. I put it down for a day but decided it would be worth finishing. I didn't regret my decision until the end, which was not at all pleasing. I was really not happy with the end. Two minor problems were ethnic stereotyping (it doesn't come off as racist but is sort of comical in a bad way) and an overabundance of sex.
I would probably recommend this book to others because I was really grabbed by it emotionally BUT I would be wary of doing so because there is a real possibility that a person wouldn't like this book at all.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: I'm am SOOO disappointed!
Comment: I can't say I had high expectations for this book, but I was looking forward to reading it. Unfortunately I can't count the times I nearly threw it against the wall in despair and almost gave up. I don't give up easily though, and continued to torture myself with finishing this awful book. I read quite a bit, and was sooo disappointed that this book ended up rising to the very top of my 'never recommend/never read again' list.

As some others have said, the characters were so out of well..'character' with their useage of the "f" word and even the "C" word. I was completely put off, and I'm no prude....However, nothing felt loving or romantic about this book AT ALL. I was under the impression that this was a love story that spands time,etc..But I only felt slightly sickened by the two main characters interactions. He always came off a tad bit pervy...and she seemed naive and manipulated....when she wasn't using the 'f' or 'c' word or having sex....which they had lots of. Too bad we never had a chance to see what the rest of their world may have been like. There were no romantic encounters....the most sentimental moments happened when Clare was a child...and even those were a bit ruined by the fact that Henry is NUDE a majority of the time. I couldn't quite figure out what the author was trying to get across. The premise of the story is a unique and interesting one, but the actual story was not worth reading. I felt it could have been written so much better. It's a shame.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Best Book I've read in a LONG time
Comment: I absolutely loved this book. I abandoned all of my responsibilities for two days so that I could read The Time Traveler's wife without stopping. I have now recommended it to everyone I know. It's a little confusing in the beginning, but a good confusing, because the author makes you want to keep reading to find out how everything will work out. You read bits and pieces of this man's great life at the times that he his experiencing them and it's very suspenseful. There is enough of both suspense and romance to appeal to all audiences.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: A Great book Ruined in the Last 10 Pages by Present Day Ending
Comment: SPOILERS: A totally disturbing, offensive, and unwarranted present day ending scene left me wondering where the hell was love in this story to start with.. Was love really there? A love story that had been building for at least 12 years (age 6-18) was spoiled in an instant (18.5), which ripples throughout the story until the finale, where again it is double spoiled in the last scene in the present. One wonders how much love was really there..

I was going to give this book a 5 as I very much enjoyed reading it. However, all was gone when I got to the last 10 pages. What I would have been left with was going to be a very memorable love story. Then in the last 10 pages, the story that has been building from page one collapses, and I see Clare for what she really is, an idiot - to avoid using much more colorful words ...


The main issue is that there was no devotion, and exactly after 6 months of Henry leaving Clare at 18, and then at his death, she is already with someone else.. and in between all of these years, that someone else who is an ugly character, is on the back burner in her mind.

I really tried to give it a chance. I reread the last 20 pages three times. I also listened to it on Audio CD, which is read very well. But I was always left with an overwhelming feeling of being cheated of my time and investment in the story. I felt I was lied to, without an excuse or proper setup.

I hated the Gomez character from the first time I read him. Thank you for ruining an other wise great read.

I am not one of those people who hate a book because of its ending. I also welcome tragic endings and don't cry for happy endings.

I am going back to Kin Grimwood's masterpiece, "Replay," which was spinning in my mind non-stop for days after I finished reading it. Replay was balanced and comprehensive. It brought me to tears. The Time Traveler's Wife, on the other hand, offended me.

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