I was tagged by Hannah @ I Have Thoughts on Books. Thank you so much! This is going to be a rough one.
The Rules
- Thank the person who tagged you and create a pingback to the original author – Nel at Reactionary Tales.
- Share at least 5 (but more are welcome) romances that tugged your heart strings. They can be from books, movies, TV shows, manga; anything you can think of! They can be examples of sad tears, angry tears, happy tears or a combination of all three.
- Nominate 5 (or more) people to share their emotional traumas
- (Note: Try not to spoil the story for your readers in case they would like to check out these romances on their own)
When I think of soul-ripping, I just hear emotionally traumatizing. So here are the romances that hurt my soul on a deep level.
Simon and Eliana from The Empirium trilogy – I still can’t talk about the end of Kingsbane. Talk about confusing me and my heart. I don’t know if i’m betrayed or in love or just crazy?
Karou and Akiva from The Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy – We went up and down and back and forth with these two. Different sides of the war, back together, and then forced apart. I love them because actually found some weird way to get past things and grow.
Nina and Matthias from The Six of Crows duology – Most of these had me screaming HOW DARE YOU, but none more than these two. They are badass Romeo and Juliet and I cannot talk about the pain I went through with these two.
Dara and Nahri from The Daevabad trilogy – I know people have opinions about Dara’s past. Yeah, he was pretty horrible and I don’t deny that. But for whatever reason, I cannot get over him. I need this ship to go so badly and I may be the only one still on it.
Mare and Maven from The Red Queen series – Yeah, yeah, everyone loves Cal. I DO NOT. I want Maven to get his redemption. That hurt and I have re-written it all in my head. If you disagree, that’s cool, but I will be in the corner plugging my ears and living in my alternate reality.
Okay, time to put the pain on someone else. You can pick happy romances guys… I just was in an emo mood lol.
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Great answers! I really need to get back to The City of Brass. I have heard such great things but tried to read at altogether the wrong time.
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Yes, it is dense and complex so you really have to be in the right head space.
I hope you give it another chance and thanks so much for the tag!
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Oh god, Nina and Matthias caused me such pain! And I don’t even know what actually ends up happening to them since I’m still reading the Crooked Kingdom!
I just have my fingers crossed.
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Their whole history is just so intense!!! Good luck on the end!
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UGH I’m not over the end of Kingsbane!!
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I will NEVER get over that.
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Mare and Maven 😭😭 I can’ get over that one either. It’s the cruelest one I’ve ever read. Thanks for the tag!
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I just… ugh I know.
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Omg, Matthias & Nina’s story arc in SoC DESTROYED ME 😭 They deserved so much better!
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I will never get over it:
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I will never get over the ending of Kingsbane. My soul won’t recover ever
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It’s not something you recover from. We just have to live with that. Ugh.
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