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Bysa (2 KP) rated The Time Traveler's Wife in Books

Sep 19, 2018  
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger | 2003 | Fiction & Poetry, Romance, Science Fiction/Fantasy
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8.2 (40 Ratings)
Book Rating
Either you love this story or you hate it. There seems to be no in between when I peruse other reviews.

I won't make this long. I will list my pros and cons and be done.

pro- I loved the originality. I've not read anything like this before.

pro- I enjoyed the cultured references to writers, poets, and artists peppered throughout.

pro- the characters were mostly endearing.

here comes the cons:

-the voices of the characters were very much the same. there was little distinction between Clare and Henry's dialogue. it was at times confusing to distinguish between the two.

-the relationship between the 2 characters was uncomfortable, at best, during Clare's younger years.

-some of Henry's personality traits made it difficult for me to believe or align some of his actions with. without going into too many specifics, it seemed in his everyday life, during periods of which he spent with Ingrid, his lifestyle and actions didn't seem to be super virtuous so I found it hard to believe he would so virtuously refuse Clare's advances as a teenager toward him, well because, frankly he seemed "whorish"...to each their own...

-parts of the story dragged on and probably could have been cut.

all in all I enjoyed the escape this book offered. it was a unique story that was written well and it kept my attention. it's fiction, so all things considered, I'd recommend it.
  
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Heather Cranmer (2721 KP) created a post

Dec 17, 2020  
Sneak a peek at the literary fiction novel RIVER, SING OUT by James Wade on my blog! This book sounds so good! (Check out that gorgeous cover too!)

https://alltheupsandowns.blogspot.com/2020/12/book-blitz-river-sing-out-by-james-wade.html

**BOOK SYNOPSIS**
“And through these ages untold, the river did act as the lifeblood of all those things alongside it.”
Jonah Hargrove is celebrating his thirteenth birthday by avoiding his abusive father, when a girl named River stumbles into his yard, injured and alone. The teenager has stolen thousands of dollars’ worth of meth from her murderous, drug-dealing boyfriend, but lost it somewhere in the Neches River bottoms during her escape. Jonah agrees to help her find and sell the drugs so she can flee East Texas.
Chasing after them is John Curtis, a local drug kingpin and dog fighter, as well as River’s boyfriend, the dangerous Dakota Cade.
Each person is keeping secrets from the others—deadly secrets that will be exposed in violent fashion as all are forced to come to terms with their choices, their circumstances, and their own definition of God.
With a colorful cast of supporting characters and an unflinching violence juxtaposed against lyrical prose, River, Sing Out dives deep into the sinister world of the East Texas river bottoms, where oppressive poverty is pitted against the need to believe in something greater than the self.