Henry and Clare are entangled in each other's past, future, and present. Henry has a rare gift, he can time travel but his destination is always unknown to him. He never knows when or where it will happen. And so ends up spending his life in moments that seemed to be fragments in time. Can their love overcome this strenuous obstacle?
This book is so sad. I mean it has moments of happiness and that is great but I would put it along the lines of P. S. I Love You and almost dangerously teeter tottering towards Girl on the Train... meaning it's that kind of depressing. I mean nothing these characters do to try to make their lives work together seems to go through for them. It all seems to shatter to pieces every time they try. It is just such a tragic love story. I have to wonder who I feel the most pity for in this story. Do I feel more pity for Henry who is cursed with this gift to jump through time at unknown junctures where anything can happen to him? Or do I feel more pity for Clare who is seemingly doomed by Henry himself for him getting involved in her life before they actually "meet". In my opinion poor Clare was doomed from the very moment Henry showed up in the meadow. She was his from that time on and would never have any other. I guess Henry's gift became a curse on both of them. But I digress. Let's get to the writing shall we? I very much like the unique idea of time travel in this book. It hasn't truly been done in this manner before and for that I really do commend the author as it is a subject that is widely written about. I personally found the writing to be slow and boring especially in the beginning and made for a very difficult read to jump into (no pun intended). But eventually the story does pick up and the book does get better. I guess you just have to push through the beginning. Because of the nature of Henry's gift and the way the author chose to write about it there is a lot of repetitiveness in this book. And I will forgive the author for that because she did such a great job keeping things straight with dates and times and ages of the characters so that way the reader can read both Henry and Clare's stories in a comprehensive way. Everything in the book is very well put together so that we are reading a story instead of just fragments in the timeline. It is very difficult to write a good book about time travel. Considering the fact that we know next to nothing about it and can only theorize and conjecture what it would be like, imagination is key here and this book definitely has enough of that to make it a good read. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes a good fantasy, romance, or is interested in time travel in general.
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