** spoiler alert ** 
 I'm very conflicted about rating this book. I'm giving it 3 stars because I'm not sure if I liked it or not. I mean, I didn't hate it; I got to the end and I even somehow enjoyed the II part. I did enjoy the original plot but ,at the same time, I had several problems with its execution. 
 First of all, I found it hard to keep track of all Henry's travelling backwards and forwards in time. For the first part of the book I kept wondering how old were the characters or what day it was ; a long series of doubts kept arising and made me turn pages back and forth in order to find plausible answers. Moreover, the overabundance of unnecessary details provided by the author (probably in order to make the story more realistic) made me feel dizzy. I got lost among literary quotes, band names, food descriptions (I got sick of hearing the word "COFFEE") and so on.... Secondly, I failed to sympathize with the characters. Henry really annoyed me on several occasions. He's drug and alchool addicted and treats women awfully bad. Clare never evolves as a character throughout the story. She already knows her destiny and she can't change it. Not to mention Gomez! I couldn't stand him! 
 I DID enjoy the second part though. Less time-travelling and more human feelings made up for the dullness of part one. I did like the relationship between Henry, Clare and little Alba as a family. I liked the dramatic end, which was the only possible one. But I found the last quotation of Homer's "Odyssey" a bit too pretentious.