A tough one this.
I'd been looking forward to reading this book for a while, waiting for a copy to come up in my local charity bookshop, but now I've read it, I'm torn between loving and loathing it.
The loving part is easy: good characters, nicely written, fast paced, and that lovely trick that time travel likes to pull off every now and again, the ability to create excuses for things that would never happen in real life.
Okay, so now the loathing: Claire sleeping with Gomez. WHAT!
We've been led to believe that a girl, who meets a man when she's just six years old and then waits her entire life, going through high school, university and all the other stuff you do when you're young free and single, without any sexual partners, only for her to fall into bed with a guy she's know for years, who happens to be married to her best friend. NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
Then Henry loses his feet to frostbite.
Where the hell did that come from?
I'd watched the film first, (not always a good idea) so it came as a bit of a shock, but losing your feet to frostbite in this day and age!
Maybe I'm wrong, but it just seemed like a lame (pardon the pun) way of debilitating the man when he could so easily have broken his legs, of maybe lost a leg in an accident. Something, anything but losing your feet to frostbite. Weird.
In conclusion, I did like this book and with a few provisos I would encourage others to read it, just don't expect a happy ending; in literary or story terms.
Okay, so now the loathing: Claire sleeping with Gomez. WHAT!
We've been led to believe that a girl, who meets a man when she's just six years old and then waits her entire life, going through high school, university and all the other stuff you do when you're young free and single, without any sexual partners, only for her to fall into bed with a guy she's know for years, who happens to be married to her best friend. NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
Then Henry loses his feet to frostbite.
Where the hell did that come from?
I'd watched the film first, (not always a good idea) so it came as a bit of a shock, but losing your feet to frostbite in this day and age!
Maybe I'm wrong, but it just seemed like a lame (pardon the pun) way of debilitating the man when he could so easily have broken his legs, of maybe lost a leg in an accident. Something, anything but losing your feet to frostbite. Weird.
In conclusion, I did like this book and with a few provisos I would encourage others to read it, just don't expect a happy ending; in literary or story terms.
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