History YMMV / TheTimeTravelersWife

* {{Squick}}: Aside from the ScrewYourself above, the {{Squick}} that will stay with you is the reason given for why Clare has so many miscarriages. [[spoiler: [[FetusTerrible The fetuses]] time travel. When they get back to the present, [[NightmareFuel their aim tends to be off]].]]

** This is noted as a major problem of the film. The book can kind of get away with a naked adult man talking to his future wife as a young girl, but when you actually have to ''see'' it, the ickiness is unavoidable.

** Ingrid. Paired with FridgeLogic (if not FridgeHorror): why doesn't she get over Henry and always desperately hoped to marry him? It is revealed that Alba time-traveled to them when they still were a couple. While Henry in his twenties is totally oblivious who that weird, bare-footed kid who follows him around is, Ingrid is implied to figure it out. She must assume Alba is ''her'' and Henry's daughter in the future.

* NightmareFuel: The hunting that results in Henry's death is being done in an area where a very young Clare is near enough to see her future husband (but from years before appearing there to be shot at the end of his life... [[LogicBomb time travel is such a headache]]) talking with her father and brother. The implication that her brother is so irresponsible to shot at something he hasn't properly identified as a legitimate hunting target makes this troper cringe.

** Clare. Let's look at her life in detail, shall we? [[DysfunctionJunction VERY dysfunctional family and childhood]], at one point finding her mother after her suicide attempt. Having an unusual and confusing relationship with a man who is very rarely ever there. Teased all through her adolescence for never dating. The one time she DOES try to date someone, she ends up BEATEN, ''BURNED'', and physically and emotionally scarred. She has around twenty years of wedded bliss with Henry--which is STILL intercut with his constant comings and goings, and the repercussions of said comings and goings, the miscarriages (at more than one point [[spoiler: finding the fetuses outside her body]]), her wacky homelife and the death of her mother. And then, she has to deal with [[spoiler: her husband dying in her arms and living a life of single motherhood, never getting into another relationship again.]] Ow.

*** [[spoiler:In fairness to Henry, Claire had spent the past two years of her life actively trying to get Henry to take her virginity, to the point of hiding the clothes he wore while in her past.]]

** Clare. Let's look at her life in detail, shall we? [[DysfunctionJunction VERY dysfunctional family and childhood]], at one point finding her mother after her suicide attempt. Having an unusual and confusing relationship with a man who is very rarely ever there. Teased all through her adolescence for never dating. The one time she DOES try to date someone, she ends up BEATEN, ''BURNED'', and physically and emotionally scarred. She has around twenty years of wedded bliss with Henry- which is STILL intercut with his constant comings and goings, and the repercussions of said comings and goings, the miscarriages (at more than one point [[spoiler: finding the fetuses outside her body]]), her wacky homelife and the death of her mother. And then, she has to deal with [[spoiler: her husband dying in her arms and living a life of single motherhood, never getting into another relationship again.]] Ow.

* MarySue: Let's face it, Clare is.

* Ingrid. Paired with FridgeLogic (if not FridgeHorror): why doesn't she get over Henry and always desperately hoped to marry him? It is revealed that Alba time-traveled to them when they still were a couple. While Henry in his twenties is totally oblivious who that weird, bare-footed kid who follows him around is, Ingrid is implied to figure it out. She must assume Alba is ''her'' and Henry's daughter in the future.

* NightmareFuel: The whole premise of the novel, really, between its use of ForegoneConclusion, YouCantFightFate, and {{Squick}}. Dear God, the {{Squick}}. Enjoy the FridgeLogic.

** Clare. Let's look at her life in detail, shall we? [[DysfunctionJunction VERY dysfunctional family and childhood]], at one point finding her mother after her suicide attempt. Having an unusual and confusing relationship with a man who is very rarely ever there. Teased all through her adolescence for never dating. The one time she DOES try to date someone, she ends up BEATEN, ''BURNED'', and physically and emotionally scarred. She has around twenty years of wedded bliss with Henry- which is STILL intercut with his constant comings and goings, and the repercussions of said comings and goings, the miscarriages (at more than one point [[spoiler: finding the fetuses outside her body.]]), her wacky homelife and the death of her mother. And then, she has to deal with [[spoiler: her husband dying in her arms and living a life of single motherhood, never getting into another relationship again.]] Ow.

* {{Padding}}: the middle third of the book goes into a lot of detail about (1) Henry and Clare's sex life, and (2) Clare's family. You could skip 100 pages in the middle and lose very little in terms of actual plot.

* Padding: the middle third of the book goes into a lot of detail about (1) Henry and Clare's sex life, and (2) Clare's family. You could skip 100 pages in the middle and lose very little in terms of actual plot.