A review by leer_amor
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

3.0

I feel very conflicted reviewing this book. There are a lot of parts of this book that I really liked, and the vibe was immaculate. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that there are some parts of this book that are wildly inappropriate. And that there’s some actual grooming in this book that is awful. This might be considered a spoiler so here’s your warning, this book is about a man named Henry who can time travel. He doesn’t have any control over when or where he travels to and when he time travels he always arrives naked. He often visits the childhood of his future wife Clare. So he’s basically having a relationship with her when she’s in her teens. And I know in the future they’re married but it just seems awful to me that he’s having this relationship with her when she’s younger. It quite literally is grooming. I think this book has not aged well. It was quite a success when it was first published and they made a movie or show about it, but the series was also canceled because of concerns of grooming. So yeah… I just think here are better time travel books out there… Interesting premise but poor execution. 
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