Jean-Paul’s rating: 3/5 stars

I have been horrible at writing book reviews. It has been so long that I’ve read these books that I can’t even begin to do a review justice. They are here mostly to remind myself that I read them.

This book is creepy. I know it’s supposed to be a love story or something like that, but it’s just creepy. 40 year old dude commits statutory rape on a 16 year old and then marries here when she’s an adult and he’s in his 30s. Yeah, time travel. Niffenegger kind of sort of broaches the whole consent thing, but mostly just to brush it aside. Much of the book takes place in Chicago, which I usually love, but it felt so forced. Different Chicago locations were constantly spat out like a name dropper trying to impress her new friends. I did enjoy looking up some of the places to see if/when they existed, though. This book made Sally cry, which is why I read it. Though, to be fair, it was on my list of books to read, but she quickly bumped it up the list. We were comparing books that made us cry. Mine was “A Prayer for Owen Meany”, which she still hasn’t read. This is the only way in which I am a better boyfriend/fiance/husband.