Hi, I’m new to reddit so I may make a few mistakes here and there!
So I’m looking for books (all genre) with characters in a love-hate dynamic. Doesn’t matter if it is romantic, parental, fraternal etc relationship, but I prefer romantic ones.
Love-hate, anguish, yearning etc. Are what I want in the dynamic! Tragic ends are fine.
A few examples of what I’m looking for are:
* Jake and Brett from The Sun Also Rises.
* Basil’s love for Dorian from The Picture of Dorian Gray. The scene where he painfully confesses his love, and is subtly dejected.
* The Great Gatsby’s confession scene where Daisy finally confronts her affair to Tom at the hotel and tells him she never loved her. Tom then drops his rage to ask her, in a brief vulnerable moment, if she had never loved him even when he had carried her up a mountain during their honeymoon.
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