Blog Book Review of The Time Traveler's Wife

The Time Traveler's Wife is a book I thoroughly enjoyed. I read a review entitled "Timeless Love" written by W.R. Greer. I completely agreed with everything the author said. One interesting point that the author did bring up was his or her criticism of the book. The fact that the author has criticism of the book doesn't surprise me, it's the part of the book he or she is critical of. Greer says

"My only complaint is that, whether a realistic depiction or not, love in this novel is something from which recovery never seems to happen."

What Greer means is that the love in this book is so incredibly powerful that it's impossible to recover from. While reading this book, I never stopped to think about this evaluation of the book. I was so immersed in loving the book and everything about it I never stepped back to think of some sort of criticism about any general theme within the book--such as the reoccuring love. Another thing I really loved about this review was that the author uses the best possible descriptions for the book and how Audrey Niffenegger, the author, wrote it. Such as this one quote,

"Ms. Niffenegger does an admirable job portraying their life together, and exploring a love built over a lifetime that courses deep through both of them."

Greer is extremely respectful towards Niffenegger and gives her the respect she really does deserve because the book is like some extremely difficult quilt that is so intricately sewn together that no one else would ever be able to remake something even close to similar. I'm not one to really read book reviews, but the review I just read was very well written.