The Time Traveler's Daughter

2.5 really. I couldn't get much good of this book. Started off really well and I was looking forward to the story. When Catherine first arrives in 1851 and meets Sebastian they get on well instantly and I liked the way things were going. Then when they end up in 1831 Catherine changes almost straight......more

Had a good premise but I had some problems with the writing. There were a handful of anachronisms. An English man from 1851, for example, would not have said the word 'okay " , nor would he have understood the reference to the expression, "down the rabbit hole" as Alice in Wonderland had not been wr......more

I’m a sucker for time-travel fish-out-of-water speculative fiction. I tolerate the “Romance” because I know I’m not the primary market for bodice-ripper fiction. Even after Outlander, this gets a bit too explicit for my taste…. Tho it didn’t cause me to abandon the tale either.......more

I loved how Catherine's father set everything in place for his daughter. I enjoyed the back and forth traveling. I wish Sebastian we could have read about Sebastian's trip into the future. I felt as if Catherine was from the 1980s or 1990s or later. She did not view life as someone from 1929 would ha......more

Overall, I would give this book a 3.7. I listened to the audiobook version of this, and sometimes when I do that, I miss things versus when I am reading. There were times where I thought the plot was a little confusing because of the people and time they were in. Every chapter I kept asking, "Wait,......more