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The Time Travelers Wife is a Sci-Fi love story. But despite being short on action at times, I really enjoyed the book.

Sci-Fi love stories are hard to do well. To its advantage, The Time Travelers Wife is more Somewhere in Time than The Lake House. It's the story of Richard DeTamble, who involuntarily travels through time. He disappears at random times, and can be gone for a minute or a week. He can't control when he disappears, although it can be triggered by stress, flickering or strobing light, or being startled. He tends to visit places and people with whom he's familiar, so he visits himself in the past or in the future, visits his wife when she was only six years old, and even visits his unborn daughter when she's an adolescent.

It looks like Journeyman, a TV show I loved, borrowed heavily from this book's themes. In many ways, this book does it better. It's less about quests, and more about characters and relationships. But it's very well done, and I enjoyed the book a lot.