The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger Reviews

After seeing the advert for the film that the book I will now review is based on I was over the moon! Finally a storyline I felt passionate about, a romance with a real difference! The book I will now review is - "The time travellers wife by Audrey Niffenegger" The synopsis of the story is - This book is ...  Read the complete review

The Time Traveler's Wife is a romantic love story written by Audrey Niffenegger. The story is based around two central characters, Clare and Henry. Henry has a gene defect which enables him to time travel involuntarily, both into history and into his future. Clare is a normal young child when she first comes across Henry ...  Read the complete review

I decided to read this book after seeing it on "Richard and Judys" book club list a few years ago. It is not my usual genre but heard good reviews of it at the time so thought why not?........... Henry suffers from a genetic defect leaving him to suffer from involuntary bouts of time travel, which lead to sometimes funny, ...  Read the complete review

This book is my favourite book ever! The Time travellers wife is the story of Henry and Clare. Claire first met Henry was 6 and Henry was in his 40's, then when Clare was 20 she met Henry when he was 28 in real time, he did not know Clare. They go on to fall in love, with consequences. The story may have what some would call ...  Read the complete review

I read this book about a year ago and still it amazes me how the plot all fits together so superbly. This is a tale about a man who travels through time. He keeps meeting this child/woman. If you can imagine her life in real time, and his as a time traveller. Very touching moments from both sides. Very difficult to put ...  Read the complete review

A novel not for the fainthearted as it is an emotive exploration of unreserved love and inevitable endings. The story is a heady mixture of romance/time travel/ fantasy all cleverly interwoven into a series of meetings between the 2 main characters . The first time I read the novel I must confess I found the lack of chronological order ...  Read the complete review

Nothing short of brilliant. I am not normally one of those people who constantly complain about "what is lost" when a book is made into a film but I suppose I will shortly find out when I get to see the cinema. The plot is simple to write down but anything less than 10,000 words would be doing it a disservice. A man travels ...  Read the complete review

I had heard much about this book but not got round to reading it for a long time. Only recently wth the film hype did I give it a go and it was definately worth a read. I couldn't put it down once I started. At first it takes a little getting into as the plot is a little hard to follow but once you are used to the author's writing style ...  Read the complete review

I first read this book as it was part of my english literature course at college. I must say I really enjoyed it. It has now made it into my top 10 books. Niffeneggers writing style keeps you intrigued throughout. The only problem I did have was in the sections where 'Claire' would describe creating her art work, as I am not an artist ...  Read the complete review

My mother lent this to me from her "I swapped this at the second hand book box and thought you might like it" pile; so I wasn't expecting much. An amusing read before bedtime at the very most. However, after several VERY late nights I posted on Facebook that I had just cried my eyes out over this book and found that ALL my friends had ...  Read the complete review

I had heard great things about the Time Traveller's Wife and when I popped into Waterstone's and noticed it was in the three for two offer I thought I would give it a read, and was highly impressed. The book is based on the relationship of Claire and Henry who met when Claire is just 7 and Henry is 40. Henry is a time traveller and ...  Read the complete review

I read this book about a year ago and this year we started studying it for A-Level which was a big advantage! This is such an original and unique book, one in a million, a book of this level, sophistication and originality is a very rare read! The story focuses around the lives of two main characters, Henry and Claire. Henry is a ...  Read the complete review

When I saw the film of this book advertised a couple of weeks ago, I looked it up on imdb.com, a website which tells you about a film, it's characters etc. And I found it was a book, I had never heard of it before, and this isn't the kind of book I would pick up in a shop, or choose to read. I know people say not to judge a book by it's cover, but ...  Read the complete review

I read this book fairly recently after purching it about 18 months ago. I put off reading it for so long, because I kept starting it and found the style that it was written in off putting. It was written in first person present tense which I found difficult to contend with. Eventually I persevered and I am so glad that I did. The ...  Read the complete review

The Time Traveler's Wife has recently been made into a film (released today in fact!) but from the reviews I've read on imbd.com etc, it doesn't seem to be a patch on the book. To be honest I wasn't expecting anything different as this would be a very difficult book to transfer to film faithfully and avoid a high age rating. Apparently, like so ...  Read the complete review

I bought this book after browsing through other peoples book lists on a website, when recieving the book and reading the blurb i was honestly slightly put off, thinking that this book is a science-fiction novel. However i was grossly mistaken. This novel is highly original and is told from two characters points of view at different periods of time ...  Read the complete review

The first and most important thing to say about this book is that it is not a science fiction novel!! I have so many friends who have been put off by the mention of "time travel" but really The Time Traveller's Wife is an epic love story and one which really deserves its best-seller status. Audrey Niffenegger is a skilled writer and ...  Read the complete review

A General Synopsis: This is an exceptional debut novel about the love between Henry and Clare. They meet when Clare is 6 and Henry is already an adult in his 30's. They meet at various ages, but they never have the same age difference as Henry has a Chrono-Displacement Disorder that means his body clock often sends him backward and forward ...  Read the complete review

This book is spectacular and clever it really take a serious author with patience to plan this all out because the book drags you back and forth that it literally puts you in a whirlwind. I'm glad a lot of people have reviewed this because this book really does deserve a lot of praise and I'm glad there is a film being made of this, I can't wait ...  Read the complete review

Part brilliantly-plotted time travelling epic, part deeply affecting love story, Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveller's Wife is a stunning novel. Comparable to little that has gone before, this genre-spanning tale relates the story of Henry and Claire, two star-crossed lovers. Henry suffers from an extremely rare, initially nameless genetic ...  Read the complete review