Slain Dark Lords? Rescued royals? Saved realms? Yeah, these fantasy don’t have any of that. Sometimes life doesn’t work out the way we hoped. The hero fails. The lovers die. The bad guys win. If you’re in the mood for something bleak, if you wanna work out your emotional kinks, if you need an ugly cry, these bummer fantasy books are exactly what the depression doctor ordered. Sit back and relax with a box of tissues, these are the 10 saddest fantasy books of all time.
The Song of Achilles
(Ecco Press)Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles is famously sad, the textbook definition of downer fantasy. Considering that the novel was inspired by a tale written by the people who practically invented tragedy, the emotional gut punches shouldn’t come as a surprise. A retelling of The Iliad, The Song of Achilles follows the titular demigod and his lifelong companion Patroclus, beginning with their childhood friendship and ending with their (spoiler) deaths in the Trojan War. While one would think that the novel’s sorrows end when its lovers are separated by death, one would be wrong. The story goes on for at least fifty pages after one of the pair bites the bust, and you will ugly cry through all of them. Thankfully, the novel features a happy ending that is exactly one sentence long – The Song of Achilles is a minor key dirge that ends on a major chord.
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