🏷️ Emotional Devastation
6 entries tagged with this trope
It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover · 2016
Lily thought she'd never end up like her mother. Then she meets Ryle — and Atlas comes back. This book will make you angry, sad, and hopeful all at once.
Verity
Colleen Hoover · 2018
Lowen finds a manuscript in Verity's office. It's horrifying. It's also impossible to stop reading. The ending will make you scream. This is CoHo at her darkest.
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.
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller · 2012
Patroclus tells the story of Achilles — from boyhood friendship to the Trojan War. You know how it ends. You read it anyway. And it DESTROYS you. The last page is one of the most devastating in literature.
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.
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.