"Being in a relationship with a time traveller requires a lot of patience, and to buy a good supply of diaries for many years to come. I read this, and liked it enormously, despite it's (few) flaws."
"A difference of 16 years in age can be overcome, but takes lot of working with, possibly a lifetime. This is too much working with when the whole relationship is complicated by escaping imprisonment."
"....while I decided to give historical fiction a rest and look to the future, where a lively teenager seeks holiuday romance, and finds instead a testing coming of age."
"Whatever may be said of her second novel, Niffenegger's first is enough to ensure her fame, and that's remarkable, as her area of skill was originally graphic novels...."
"The idea of life and love being complicated by sudden disapearences into other times or dimensions has of course been explored before, most famously by Kurt Vonnegut in his anti-war masterpiece."