Angsty Romance Books: A ConclusionĪnd so, we have reached the end of my love letter to 15 of the best angsty romance books. Instead, she becomes the palace’s medical consultant and develops an incurable case of love. But when the King’s Justice forces her hand, she sneaks into the palace on a whim, with the hopes of killing the king. After all, she is just an orphaned apothecary apprentice who steals medicine to distribute to the poor at night with her attractive friend Wes. Tessa Cade should have nothing to do with the royal family. Since his parents were assassinated, Prince Corrick has been the King’s Justice, the one in charge of keeping his brother King Harristan alive by delivering justice, no matter how bloody. Plague times are hard enough without the knowledge that your people want your big brother’s head on a platter. Some readers have always loved seeing angsty romance books where true love is different degrees of pain. While this is not the only experience of romantic angst in literature, it is wonderfully straightforward. In courtly love, a knight shows his devotion in the midst of this angst-ridden experience. Love is a wound to be cured, quite literally in the case of the knight’s thigh wound in Guigemar, it is painful and endless. The Lais of Marie De France contains poems or lais where she characterizes courtly love as a knight’s painful longing for an unavailable (often married) lady.
Where, oh where did this angst originate you might ask? One potential answer lies in French medieval literature and the tradition of courtly love. I am addressing this unconventional love letter to you today to attempt to explain why readers have always loved angsty romance books and offer up some delicious novels for your reading pleasure. I for one will cry and talk to my books, especially if my angsty characters are making varying degrees of bad choices. It is easy for us to become emotionally invested in angsty romance books because we feel their pain. Great love becomes even greater when readers like us latch onto the relationship. Sure, they might be operating a king crab boat, inspiring a revolution, launching a new celebrity gym, or running a kingdom, but at the end of the day, their relationship lives rent-free in their minds. No matter what is happening in their lives, thoughts of their partner take up residence in the back of their minds. You can follow her on Tiktok and contact her through her website.ĭear Reader: what makes angsty romance books truly exquisite is the presence of dread and longing in a relationship. She’s been writing about romance, fantasy, science fiction, and pop culture for quite a while, starting at Book Riot in 2020.
Nassor has a MA in English Literature from Georgetown University, where she looked at the way medieval and early modern literature reappear in fantasy books today. Nassor may spend more time with books, tea, and ceramic mugs than recommended by professionals but it hasn’t failed her so far.
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