Booktober Week 2: Books that made me cry

Booktober! Is it Monday? No! Is it Wednesday? No! Is it Friday? No! But is it still the second week of Booktober? Technically yes! So we will count that as a success.

We’re getting sad for Booktober: Week 2. Today we have Five Books that Made Me Cry Like a Baby

I would just like to clarify that I almost never cry during books or movies, so if they made me cry, they were hard-core. Also, crappy books don’t make me cry (unless they're so bad that I’m crying tears of agony)



The Fault in Our Stars
By John Green

Okay, so everyone saw this coming, but if I’m going to talk about books that made me cry, this one is automatically at the top of the list. I reread it, thinking “Oh, this time around I’ll be fine because I know what’s coming.” Nope, still cried. What’s worse is that I’ve read it multiple times, as in at least five times, and guess what happened every time? What was that Einstein quote? Oh yeah, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Yeah.



Looking For Alaska
By John Green

Basically, if John Green wrote it, and it’s sad, I’ll cry. I’d probably cry if he wrote a particularly bleak shopping list. I could sort of the the sad plot twist coming, but it still felt like getting hit in the emotional stomach. In this case the anticipation made it worse, and the fallout after said plot twist, was to raw and emotional.

Allegiant
By Veronica Roth

I mentioned in my last blog that the ending of Allegiant was spoiled for me by a particular  Tumblr user who I will not name. *AHEM* And while I did not appreciate a major plot twist being revealed, the fact that I knew what was coming did not stop me from feeling ALL THE SADS at two in the morning. It was so intensely written and accessible, that I felt everything the character felt. To anyone interested, the Sads are worse ridiculously late at night.





Mockingjay
By Suzanne Collins

While we’re on the subject of sad books at two in the morning, let’s talk about Mockingjay. I will admit, Mockingjay is not my favourite Hunger Games book, I personally feel that the plot goes down-hill as the series goes along, but, it is still well written, with shameless heart string-pulling and PRACTICALLY EVERYONE DIES, so I'm sure you can guess what I was doing at two in the morning. I think there’s a pattern emerging here…




Wallflower
By Holly-Jane Rahlens

Finally, the only book on this list that isn’t actually sad. I talked more in a previous post about the magic that is Wallflower, but it's so beautifully written and intense and just nice, that my brain said something along the lines of “I-love-this-book-so-much-and-it’s-so-good-and-nice-and-happy-and-emotional-and-I-feel-all-the-emotions-now-oh-no-cryingaah” and that was it for me






I realize now that this post makes me sound somewhat emotionally unstable, but hey, you know what? I’m not ashamed of crying, if books manage to make me cry, that means they’re really well written. (Unless, of course, I'm crying because the book is so painfully bad…)

So, the moral of the story is don’t be ashamed of crying, don’t read sad books at two in the morning, because that’s dumb –trust me, I’d know – and if you don’t mind a bit of a cry, then read these books, because they're good! Promise!