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Okay, a lot of people love this book. The jacket is covered in plaudits from The Observer, The Times, and The Guardian… if that still doesn’t convince you of its brilliance, the inside of the jacket (front AND back) contain more rave reviews ’startlingly original’, ‘inspirational’, ‘a rare book’, ‘unmissable’… I got up to page 18 and stopped. I found the dialogue completely unconvincing and contrived. I found the whole chrono-impairment thing laughable and the descriptions of Clare, ‘the wife’, were somehow trashy and shallow.

‘-this astoundingly beautiful amber-haired tall slim girl turns around and looks at me as though I am her personal Jesus.’ (The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger)

The Big Issue wrote that this book ‘will break your heart’.

Yep, especially when I think about how it cost $23.95

If you like romances then this is probably for you. I’m just not sure why it’s being lauded as something extraordinary when its so clearly very very ordinary.