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This week I’m sharing the books that tore me apart while reading them. Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and Bookish and is hosted by The Artsy Reader Girl. 

I cry quite easily while reading, it’s something that has always happened. But today I’m sharing the books that have recently torn me apart. I don’t mean a little tear here and there. I mean kick to the gut and sob crying. Like always these are in no order. 

 

Great And Precious Things by Rebecca Yarros: Rebecca Yarros knows how to tear me into a million different pieces. I’m not lying here when I say I’ve nearly cried in every book I’ve read of hers. She knows how to hit me right in the guy. My review for this one will be up in the next week, but can I just say I adored it, but was I a baby. 

The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling by Wai Chim: I just finished this the other day and damn did it break me. But it was also powerful, beautiful and really good. It’s hard to read at times, I’m not going to lie, but it explores mental illness in families and what happens it breaks that bond | #LoveOzYA

 

The Last Time We Say Goodbye by Cynthia Hand: If you want to cry like a baby then this book is for you. I put off reading this one for such a long time because I knew that it was going to tear me apart. But I still wasn’t prepared for it all. I was a mess after finishing it, but it was also so beautiful. 

The Last Letter by Rebecca Yarros: What did I say about Rebecca Yarros tearing me to pieces. I think this one is one of the most emotional books that I have ever read. It literally hurt me to read it, but it’s also so fantastic. 

 

Letters to the Lost (Letters to the Lost #1) by Brigid Kemmerer: This is another author that knows how to make me cry and this one here was the worse. There is so much hurt in this book. But it’s done so well that you just fall right into the trap. Kemmerer knows how to write honest characters and this really shone throughout the book.

The Love That I Have by James Moloney: Anything set in World War II is always bound to make me cry. I don’t know that it is really, but this one tore me apart. Plus that ending! There is so much power in this book and it really gets to the reader – well it did to me. 

 

Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys: I have only read this book once and I don’t think I could do it again. This book left me a less, it tore me to pieces and I mean pieces. But it is also so beautiful and perfect and just what I am looking for. It’s one of my favourite books of all time. 

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller: I think you all know how I feel about this one here. It’s one of my favourite books of all time. It’s beautiful and heartbreaking and just so perfect. I knew what was going to happen the whole time. I knew it. But that didn’t stop me from sobbing like a baby. 

 

All the Rage by Courtney Summers: Anything by Country Summers tears out my heart. And this one really does do that. It’s a hard book to read and I’m not going to lie it’s not for everyone. It’s also such a powerful and important read. And I think you should definitely try. 

Queen of Air and Darkness (The Dark Artifices #3) by Cassandra Clare: There is no surprise that Cassandra Clare made this list. Queen of Air and Darkness absolutely killed me. There is so much at stake, so many things could have gone wrong or happen. I had no idea where it was going to go. 

 

 

And that is it! What are the books that tore you apart? Do we share anything that is the same? Let’s Chat!