The Time Traveler's Wife

This is the story of a the love of Henry, who involuntarily has to time travel between his past and future and the woman he love Clare. I really like time traveling books and The time traveler's wife wasn't a disappointment. The author keep moving forward the story even thou Henry goes back and forward in time in almost every chapter. The love story between Clare and Henry it's quite unique, and very compelling. You understand very well the story I just wish the author could have better developed all of the characters mention in this book especially Alba What she cure? What happen to her?. It keep me wondering what were of them. It's a tragic sad love story that will bring sadness, joy, love. I like the story.

Reader reviewed by McKenzie goolsby

the novel tells the stories of Henry DeTamble (born 1963), a librarian at the Newberry Library in Chicago, and his wife, Clare Abshire (born 1971), an artist who makes paper sculptures. Henry has a rare genetic disorder, which comes to be known as Chrono-Displacement, that causes him to involuntarily travel through time. When 20-year-old Clare meets 28-year-old Henry at the Newberry Library in 1991 at the opening of the novel, he has never seen her before, although she has known him most of her life

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Henry begins time traveling at the age of five, jumping forward and backward relative to his own timeline. When he leaves, where he goes, or how long his trips will last are all beyond his control. His destinations are tied to his subconscioushe most often travels to places and times related to his own history. Certain stimuli such as stress can trigger Henry's time traveling; he often goes jogging to keep calm and remain in the present. He also searches out pharmaceuticals in the future that may be able to help control his time traveling. He also seeks the advice of a geneticist, Dr. Kendrick. Henry cannot take anything with him into the future or the past; he always arrives naked and then struggles to find clothing, shelter and food. He amasses a number of survival skills including lock-picking, self defense and pickpocketing. Much of this he learns from older versions of himself.
Once their timelines converge "naturally" at the librarytheir first meeting in his chronologyHenry starts to travel to Clare's childhood and adolescence in South Haven, Michigan, beginning in 1977 when she is six years old. On one of his early visits (from her perspective), Henry gives her a list of the dates he will appear and she writes them in a diary so she will remember to provide him with clothes and food when he arrives. During another visit, he inadvertently reveals that they will be married in the future. Over time they develop a close relationship. At one point, Henry helps Clare frighten and humiliate a boy who abused her. Clare is last visited in her youth by Henry in 1989, on her eighteenth birthday,  which They are then separated for two years until their meeting at the library.Clare and Henry marry,However a version of Henry from the past visits Clare.she subsequently gives birth to a daughter, Alba. Alba is diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement as well but, unlike Henry, she has some control over her destinations when she time travels. Before she is born, Henry travels to the future and meets his ten-year-old daughter on a school field trip and learns that he died when she was five years old.

Reader reviewed by OIKZ

This novel wasn't published online or recommended by a friend or even on the library shelf in my school, but when I searched for several books that will definitely grab the attention of many young adult readers, I was stoked and glad that I had finally broke out of my comfort zone and read something that included a romantic element with a strange twist in the plot. The storyline that the author created was somewhat simplistic but very interesting. There are a lot of complications that arise from the midst of the relationship between the two main characters but they still manage to balance out their personal but distant lives. I really don't have to include a synopsis or a brief overview of the book because it's seriously everywhere. I definitely recommend this novel for young adults as well as older readers, you will be drawn to the charaters, plotline, and atmosphere of the story... Literally. So make sure to check it out!

Reader reviewed by Severa Drabczyk

The Time Traveler's Wife is about a man who can time travel unwillingly and at random. When he travels, he cannot bring anything with him such as,jewelry,shoes,clothes,etc. So he ends up naked in places in time. He cannot control when and where he goes and often finds himself in his past with his future wife.

This was truely a fantastic book. Pure genius and the perfect love story. She wrote it from both character's sides, the time traveler, Henry and his wife Clare. And that way I was able to see how Clare felt when Henry time traveled instead of just Henry and what he felt. I loved the fact that the characters were truely and deeply in love and that they would sacrifice anything to stay together, which sometimes lasted long and other times it was just minutes before he time traveled. Their love in the book was expressed in a way that I felt for them and hoped everything would go right for them in the end. It truely shows a real love and the problems that are faced with it. If you like love stories, this is the perfect one for you. It is beautiful and emotionally gripping, this is a book I will read over and over again.

Reader reviewed by Kelsey

A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger's cinematic storytelling that makes the novel's unconventional chronology so vibrantly triumphant.


This is the book I just recently finished. It was long and really good. I thought Clare and Henry were so real. At the end of the book I was really crying. This is probably the second book were I was actually crying and not just getting teary eyed but crying, the other book being A Summer To Die by Lois Lowry. I was thinking how impossible it would for me to survive after how it ended. I was thinking that I'd probably just be crying all day long. Then again Clare had something to look forward to, to bad she found that out about two months after her tragedy struck.

Reader reviewed by Mary

Two People in Love....

A Whole Lot of Time Traveling...

A Great Book...


Henry can time-travel. Throughout the day he'll find himself in random time periods. In one of those time traveling adventures he will meet Claire. And they will fall in love...


Well-written, beautiful and touching, it's a very good book that deserves to be and is widely read.