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The Time Traveler's Wife
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Bem, vou escrever isto em inglês. Dá-me prática e mais pessoas podem ler a minha opinião se quiserem. :)I finished reading this book a while ago. It was my second book for this year and it was not exactly what I was expecting, which is not an entirely bad thing. I agree with you, T., that the main female character looked like a Mary Sue at first, but this feeling dissipated a bit as I continued reading the novel (Now, Alba had the beginnings of a far greater Mary Sue than Clare could ever be...) and I realized that, despite being beautiful and strong, she was also a fully fleshed character, with her problems, her fears, her emotions and her love, and I tend to only label one as a Mary Sue when they're totally bereft of an enjoyable three-dimentional personality. I enjoyed this book a great deal. Time travel *is* an aspect of the book but the novel is, ultimately, a love story that spans many years. It goes back and forth in time and it can be a bit confusing, especially at the end (I had to get used to the different points-of-view and the ages of the characters always changing, but after a while it just became part of the story). It's a love story, yes, though not your run-of-the-mill girl-meets-guy. It's a powerful, poignant testament to the power of love. Although Henry is the one who is always on the run when he travels to the past, who has to scrunge for clothes and food when he doesn't end up in the Meadow, Clare is the one who seems to suffer the most by staying behind and you feel that suffering, you feel her pain, but you also feel her strong love and her patience and her faith. The ending drags a bit, in my opinion. You know what's going to happen but it takes its sweet time coming through. And there's all those unexplained visits to Alba in the future that the Henry POVs in the past do not refer to (aside from the one where he meets Alba at 12, I think, before she is born in his time -- and it was exactly this chapter that put me in mind of a Mary Alba Sue...) but that we find have happened (there's even a list of dates). It does lacks a bit of an explanation regarding the whole time travel thing and how society viewed it. Did the doctor ever publish something about it? Was Henry ever known as someone with the Chrono disorder? How did everyone else see it? We never see much beyond their initial reaction and their belief in the whole thing (usually after Henry "pops out"). In the end, it seems everyone knows about it but there's never any real follow-up on how they know it, how they reacted, how society at-large reacted to someone who could travel through time. Was Henry the only one? Were there others? The story is extremely centered in Clare and Henry, yes, and though it does a great job portraying their relationship, no relationship is ever a closed system with no outside influences. In the end, though, if we forget the points above and suspend our disbelief for a moment, the novel is an incredible read and I really enjoyed it. It's a powerful book with strong characters who have to live with a complicated problem, but who preservere in the end, despite everything. I'm really glad I finally got to read this book. Yes, it's a bit on the fluffy side but it's not a trashy romance -- it's a good, original story, with fleshed out characters who go through life one step at a time, intending to come out the other side the better. Thank you so much for the loan, Blossom. I'll give you the book back the next time I see you. |
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