A worthy read.

Emotions in a book

Some books left me drenched in tears, heart physically aching. Is that good?

A great book isn’t just something you read. It’s something that happens to you. It forces you to feel things you didn’t know you were capable of feeling, drags you into a world so real and raw that you can’t help but lose yourself in it. And when it’s done? Your heart is shattered. Your chest is tight. Your eyes are sore from crying. You curse the author, you yell at the page, you want to throw the book across the room—but you don’t. Because deep down, you know that’s exactly what makes it a good book. The best books don't speak, they echo in your heart.

If a book doesn’t make you feel that gut-punch, that devastation that keeps you up at night thinking, “I can’t believe that just happened,” then it hasn’t done its job. It’s not enough to just read a story. You need to live it. You need to get caught up in the characters’ lives so completely that when they hurt, you hurt. When they’re joyful, your heart bursts with them. And when they fall, you fall with them.

A good book makes you angry. Angry that the world can be so cruel, angry that the characters you’ve invested in are suffering, angry at the injustice of it all. It’s that raw, hot anger that wells up inside you, the kind of anger that makes you want to scream, to shake the book in frustration. You want to shout, Why is this happening? Why can’t it be different? But it’s not. And the beauty of it is, it doesn’t try to make it easy. It doesn’t try to tie things up in a neat little bow and tell you it’s all going to be okay. Because in life, it’s not always okay. Sometimes, it’s broken. Sometimes, it’s messy. Sometimes, you get left alone with the pieces and no way to put them back together.

But that’s the magic of it. That’s what makes the book worthy.

There are some books that left me clutching my heart in physical pain, unable to breathe, like ACOTAR, Artemis Fowl or the Ram Chandra series. I swore at the book, cursed the author, felt like flinging it across the room- yet I kept reading on. It was impossible to put it down, because god, I needed it to end well.

These are the kind of books that you'll remember forever. I know I still blush and get a gut-punch every time I think about Rhysand (from ACOTAR by Sarah J Maas), even though it has been a while since I finished it. I know that I still search Pinterest for related memes and posts, because I just need to relive that book over and over.

The greatest books don’t make you feel good. They make you feel everything else. They make you feel alive. They make you feel the kind of pain that you didn’t know you could survive. These heart-wrenching books are the true representatives of literature.

A book only lives when your heart beats in rhythm with its pages.

Honestly, if a book doesn’t break your heart, you haven’t found the right one yet. It needs to shatter your soul, make you feel things you never thought possible, and make you truly connect with it.

Because a worthy book hurts, heals, and stays.