RaveBookslutBut this is not a novel about time travel...Time travel is the quandary, the problem, the joy and the sorrow of the book, but the meat of the story is the love between Henry and Clare ... they temper the love story and test the truth of the dyad the composes the heart of the story. The darkest moments in the character's lives are where we most find them clinging to one another rather than being blown apart ... But what better testament to good writing is there than the ability to make characters so developed and true that even their imagined slights move us to tears?