Krysten’s Review

After all the hype, I was disappointed with this book. It was poorly edited, for one thing, and sometimes hard to follow. Time travel is a complicated thing, though, so that’s to be expected (and the author’s timeline was complicated AF, so I guess that deserves some props). Halfway through the book, I still didn’t feel connected to the characters, and it didn’t feel like there was much of a conflict. Okay, the guy spontaneously time travels. Yeah, that’s a problem, and so were all the miscarriages, but is that conflicting enough for 500 pages? Everything else in their lives was sunshine and roses: awesome house, tons of sex, apparently no money or job worries. I felt like there was a lot of pretentiousness thrown in (all the punk band references and untranslated French passages and the anti-whatever b.s. and the art and music snobs) along with a bunch of attempts at symbolism and metaphor that I just didn’t get. Or maybe I’m just not intellectual enough to get it. And please tell me: what was the point of Gomez? What was the point of Henry’s violent death? It wasn’t bad—just not what I expected, I guess.