🏷️ Bittersweet
6 entries tagged with this trope
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V.E. Schwab · 2020
Addie makes a deal to live forever — but no one will ever remember her. For 300 years she's a ghost in her own life. Then someone remembers. The premise alone is devastating.
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V.E. Schwab · 2020
A woman makes a deal with the devil: immortality in exchange for being forgotten by everyone she meets. For 300 years no one remembers her. Then someone does.
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2021
Klara is an Artificial Friend waiting in a store to be chosen. Her observations about humans are both naive and devastating. Nobel Prize-winning author at peak form.
Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel · 2022
A 1912 exile in Canada, a 2020 author on book tour, a detective in a moon colony — all connected by an impossible moment. Mandel at her most luminous.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin · 2022
Two friends make video games together across three decades. It's about love, creativity, disability, identity, and the games we play with each other's hearts.
Such Selfish Prayers
andromeda3116 · 2008
A short, devastating post-canon piece about what could have been. Zuko and Katara chose duty over each other. The regret is quiet and overwhelming.