Top 5 Angsty Romances

Happy Hump Day! This week’s topic is angsty romances. I honestly don’t read a lot of straight romance novels. I can think of two off the top of my head and I wouldn’t consider them ‘angsty’, so all my choices for this topic will likely be good books that aren’t categorized as ‘romance’ but have romantic sub-plots in them, I suppose. Well, here goes nothin’.

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I’d also like to warn against any potential spoilers for these books. Sometimes just naming a couple is a spoiler, so I recommend looking at the picture of the book I have next to the post before reading the post in case you want to avoid learning anything about that book.

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5. Marko and Alana from Saga

The series centers around these two and their fight to stay happily together. The whole plot revolves around it. It’s definitely angsty, haah.

 

 

 

 

4. Gavin and Karris from The Lightbringer series

This is a romance that is a long time coming. It’s not by any means the center of the plot but it’s in there in a way that you almost long for things to just work out. I’ve reached a point in the series where I’m very happy where things are… but I know something’s gonna happen. I just know it. D:

 

 

 

3. Alina and The Darkling from the Grisha trilogy

This is one of those ships that I shouldn’t like but I do. Like, I did the whole ‘look up a bunch of fanfiction on it’ after I finished the series. It’s so unhealthy but I’m weirdly obsessed with the Darkling. The interactions between these two are just so odddd.

 

 

 

2. Kyo and Tohru from Fruits Basket

This one is just plain adorable. I think it only qualifies as angsty because of how long it takes to come to fruition. But hey, it’s super cute and full of drama along the way, so woo.

 

 

 

1. Kaoru and Kenshin from Rurouni Kenshin

As much as Kaoru gets on my nerves, I think she’s a decent match for Kenshin. Kenshin’s past is full of awful things, which is a lot of the fuel for the angst in this series. And honestly the romance isn’t really apparent for the first… well, most of the series. But it’s like one of those things you know is there but the author doesn’t explicitly point out. I just love it. :”D

 

 

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And that’s it! Happy reading!