So, they made the book into a movie. And I really enjoy time travel movies, top of the list being The Butterfly Effect, Donnie Darko, and of course Back To The Future, in no particular order.
Still, it’s not the kind of book I would budget my limited time on. But I took enough trouble to download the audiobook.
So a man is born with a genetic disorder that makes him randomly pop out of the normal stream of time, arriving as naked as the Terminator. Thus he had to develop survival skills early, learning to steal and pick door locks to get clothing and food cos he doesn’t know how long he’ll be stuck.
Then he meets his future wife in the past. How creepy is a relationship between a middle-aged man and a pre-teen girl? So his future wife knows him years before he even meets her in real time. The entire relationship takes place like this, in and out of time. Fantasy romance. Plenty on the romance. Light on the fantasy.
The write basically used the time travel as a gimmick, and tried to engineer many unusual scenarios to tell the couple’s romance.
Slow moving tale. Early on it tried to be all Sophie’s World, discussing causality and pre-determination or some such lameness. The story climaxed at the same time the time-traveller popped his future wife’s cherry.
Downhill and boring after that. If that were even possible.
He dies in the end. There, that’s the gimmicky ending. I’ve just saved you hours of boredom.