The Time Traveler's Wife

The time travel in the book works in odd ways, and it's a little hard to believe that the main character doesn't have at least a little control over it, he appears in convenient locations throughout the book which lets him bond with his wife during a time when she is way too young for him. Even if he appears in a general location near her was a coincidence, he already knows in the future that she is his wife and he seeks to meet up with her, and not avoid her.

The characters of this book are bland, and forgettable especially everyone besides the main characters Clare, and Henry. But even the stuff we find out about the main characters isn't sufficient to establish a strong bond between them and the reader. A lot of stuff you find out about them is pretty gross or shallow. They already seem to live quite comfortable lives, but the time-traveling also provides cheat codes for them (which they only use when the plot demands it). You don't get to hear a ton about their work life which you would assume would be affected by time travel at random times.

The scenario sorta seems like a setup for smut, the sex scenes we do get have quite silly descriptions, and sometimes even other scenes have an odd choice of words.

There are a lot of parts in the book where the author throws a ton of adjectives, and lists of references (one time even a very long grocery list). There are also a ton of parts where nothing of interest happens.

The main character expresses negative views toward adoption that do not make any sense—questionable romanticism of pregnancy.