"The Time Traveler's Wife" and Hitting Back...a HUGE no no!!

This is the second book I have read by Audrey Niffenegger and I must say she is quickly climbing the charts to one of my favorite authors. I read her other novel, "Her Fearful Symmetry," and loved, loved, loved it!

*WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD!*

This novel swaps back and forth betweeen Henry and Clare. Henry is the time traveler in the relationship and appears in a clearing in the meadow behind Clare's home when she is 6 years old. Essentially, she has known this man for almost her entire life. This novel keeps in time with Clare's age, and Henry exists in the present, however, he has a time travelling self that appears in the present, past, and future. This had me a bit confused in the beginning. I was having trouble understanding which Henry I was dealing with.

Throughout the novel, Clare always seems to be waiting. As a child she was waiting to grow up and be legal so she could date and eventually marry him (she already knew from "future" Henry that they were already married). She had to wait 2 years to meet him in real life. After marriage, she waited years and 7 miscarriages later to have a child with Henry (miscarriages mainly due to chromosomal issues with Henry's sperm I'm assuming). After they do have their first child, Henry dies when they're daughter Alba is 5. She waits in hope of seeing the time traveling Henry, but this waiting proves to be in vain because the only one who ever sees him is Alba.

(*Note this a draft saved from March. Baby news to follow!)