I just finished We Were Liars, and I was completely not expecting the plot twist at the end (which was amazingly written- don’t get me wrong!) and it messed with some dissociation issues I’ve been having lately, where I question what’s real and what’s not and what defines reality. It sent me into a pretty bad panic attack, which my fiancé helped pull me out of.
Most of the time I enjoy these kinds of philosophical thoughts, like with The Reader series I loved it, but I was also in the headspace for that kind of thought process at the time. But it’s very situation dependent, and being in the right headspace can change over the course of reading a book, obviously, so how do you handle books that you suddenly realize have put you in a bad spot?
And also, what books have done that to you- where you begin to question what’s real and what’s not? Both in good ways and in bad ways?
by ChaosofaMadHatter