You might like one called Remnants of Filth! Haven’t read it yet but heard it’s heartbreaking, and the genre tends to be more plot-focused with a romantic subplot. My personal fav is Ballad of Sword and Wine but it’s less emotionally harrowing and more politically driven.

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We Burned So Bright by TJ Klune!

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The lovely bones by Alice sebold

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Boy do I love some heartwrenching novels. I know a few… Historical fiction: They Went Left by Monica Hesse, As Long as the Lemon Tree Grows by Zoulfa Katouh, The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep by Allan Wolf Fiction: Don’t Cry for Me by Daniel Black, A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Dear Martin by Nic Stone, Deposing Nathan by Zack Smedley, We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson

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