🏷️ Angst
20 entries tagged with this trope
Ugly Love
Colleen Hoover · 2014
Miles doesn't do love. Tate doesn't do casual. They try anyway. The dual timeline slowly reveals why Miles is so broken and it will destroy you.
Happy Place
Emily Henry · 2023
Harriet and Wyn broke up six months ago. Nobody knows. Now they're stuck at their annual friends' trip pretending to still be together. Every fake touch, every shared bed, every almost-confession is agony.
Love and Other Words
Christina Lauren · 2018
Macy and Elliot were childhood best friends who fell in love through words. Something tore them apart. Now they've run into each other again. The dual timeline reveals what happened piece by piece.
Final Offer
Lauren Asher · 2022
Cal and Lana have history — a painful one. Now he's back in her lake house trying to buy it, and she's not selling. Two broken people who never stopped loving each other fighting over a house and their feelings.
Iron Flame
Rebecca Yarros · 2023
Everything Violet thought she knew was wrong. Xaden has been keeping secrets. The trust issues in this book are PAINFUL. But the dragons are cooler and the stakes are higher.
Onyx Storm
Rebecca Yarros · 2025
The war is here. Violet is pushed to her limits. The venin threat is worse than anyone imagined. Book 3 goes DARK.
Ruthless Vows
Rebecca Ross · 2024
Roman doesn't remember Iris. He's on the other side of the war now. She's writing letters he'll never read. The separation angst in this book is BRUTAL in the best way.
Normal People
Sally Rooney · 2018
Connell and Marianne orbit each other from school to university. They're together, then apart, then together, then apart. The miscommunication is painful because it's so real. Rooney writes love like a wound.
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara · 2015
Four friends in New York. Jude's past is slowly revealed. This book will break you in ways you didn't know you could break. It's devastating, controversial, and people either worship it or can't finish it. There is no in between.
Clean
olivieblake · 2016
War era. Draco and Hermione's affair while everything burns. Olivieblake (yes, the Atlas Six author) wrote this before getting published and it shows — the prose quality is publishable. Raw, messy, devastating.
The Right Thing to Do
LovesBitca8 · 2017
Post-war. A marriage law forces Hermione and Draco together. The second Rights and Wrongs fic, where the arranged marriage trope gets the depth it deserves. LovesBitca8's characterization is unmatched.
November 9
Colleen Hoover · 2015
Ben and Fallon meet on November 9th and agree to meet on the same date every year. No contact in between. Each chapter is a year. The twist at the end will make you flip back to page one.
Reminders of Him
Colleen Hoover · 2022
Kenna just got out of prison. She wants to see her daughter. The whole town hates her for what she did. Ledger is the only one willing to see past it. The most emotionally devastating CoHo — and that's saying something.
A Thousand Boy Kisses
Tillie Cole · 2016
Rune and Poppy promised each other a thousand kisses. Then Rune left for two years and Poppy stopped answering his calls. What happened? If you want to cry for four hours straight, this is your book.
Twisted Hate
Ana Huang · 2022
Josh and Jules literally cannot stand each other. The hate is real, the chemistry is hotter. When they give in, it's explosive. The enemies-to-lovers arc where both sides have genuine reasons for the hatred.
A Touch of Ruin
Scarlett St. Clair · 2020
Persephone and Hades' relationship is tested by the other Olympians, mortal interference, and Persephone's growing powers. The spice escalates. The angst escalates more.
When He Was Wicked
Julia Quinn · 2004
Michael has been in love with Francesca for years — while she was married to his cousin. After tragedy strikes, guilt and desire collide. The most emotionally complex Bridgerton. Real grief, real love.
Manacled
SenLinYu · 2018
The war is lost. Hermione is a prisoner, her memories gone. Draco Malfoy is assigned as her handler. What follows is one of the most devastating, beautifully written slow burns in all of fanfiction. This fic broke an entire fandom.
The Fallout
everythursday · 2010
Hermione learns about a failed Dumbledore-sanctioned scheme that aimed to create a secondary Order spy from Draco Malfoy. The aftermath of war forces them together in ways neither expected.
All the Young Dudes
MsKingBean89 · 2017
The Marauders era, told through Remus Lupin's eyes. This fic is so well-written that people forget it's not canon. Widely considered one of the greatest fanfics ever written. Bring tissues.