spoken for

Rating: 9

I have to say that I really, really enjoyed this book. And, no, I have not seen the movie yet. I really wanted to read the book first.

I like that this book actually addresses a lot of the things that are overlooked in other time travel fictions such as my beloved Back to the Future. I mean, usually they are changing things in those stories and no one who would have experienced whatever-it-was in the past remembers it in the present or future. It just doesn’t make sense. But that is taken care of in this book.

I usually don’t like books that go back and forth between authors, or at least they’re usually harder for me to read like that for some reason, but this one wasn’t bad at all. Going back and forth between Henry and Clare was easy and is actually what made this story.

And if you have not read the book, STOP HERE because there will be a spoiler in about five seconds.

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One thing I am confused about, actually, the only thing I am confused about, concerns Henry’s death. So, we know about how he visits on the date that’s not written down (because it was his last so he couldn’t have known to give it to her) and he is shot by Mark by accident. When he’s actually experiencing it (ie it’s not from Clare’s perspective), he talks about his innards spilling out. He returns to the present and dies like that. Now, in the present, he’d lost his feet, right? So why is this not addressed in the past where he is dying? And why didn’t Clare see that he was hurt, let alone hurt so bad his insides are coming out? She sees him standing there with her father and brother and he waves to her and all that jazz before he returns to the present to die. But in the present he can’t walk or stand because he has no feet, so why can he stand there in the past after he’s been shot? Seriously, if you have any idea, hit that contact link page above (or in the sidebar, somewhere, or comment on my most recent entry if you can’t find the contact form) and tell me what you think. Really I wasn’t confused by any of the rest of it, just that.