Ok, since I'm just hanging around here waiting for the post office to deliver our current book club read, I thought I'd start a new thread. We may have done this one before but, if so, it was long enough ago that I don't remember and newer members would not have seen it.

So, what are your favorite tear-jerking romances? You know, the ones that bring real tears to your eyes, give you the sniffles and even make you break out the tissues. And just why do these particular romances make you cry? Is it the situation the characters find themselves in, the depth of their emotions, the effectiveness of the author's language-what gets to you and starts the tears flowing?

I'm horrible...virtually anything makes me cry. But I do tend to be much more affected by family situations even than by actual romantic issues. So if the heroine has been having family problems and the hero helps her resolve them, that usually gets me going.

hey guys! just had my first cry from a book in Outlander and that was more than just sniffles! That was definitely because of both her writing and the character of Jaimie... I must always like it when the guy falls apart a little because I also loved and couldn't catch my breath with Kingdom of Dreams by Judith McNaught, again because of the hero, and also Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale which was really really intense. I felt bad for that hero the whole time...very emotional! I don't want to be a spoiler.. it was mostly in his situation during the middle of the book!

The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons makes me weep like a baby...
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, too, lol.
Any book from the Outlander series can get tears outta me. And of course, I've begun rereading it from the beginning. Just finished An Echo in the Bone you see, and I wanted to refresh myself with the beginning. *sniffle*
Little Women, The Thorn Birds... I guess epic family dramas w/ romance in general!

The first one to come to mind is Outlander I love Jaime !!

I have to say anything that Nicholas Sparks has written. Most especially At First Sight... Anything that has to do with children will also do it. I think his work is mostly labeled fiction rather than romance but his stories always have a love story in them...

I don't cry very often over books, but here are a few I can think of off the top of my head:

Gone With the Wind - The bit where Melanie gets out of her sickbed to help defend Scarlett against the marauding yankee with her dead brother's saber makes me cry every single time I read it or see the movie. For me, this book is a romance but is also every bit as much about Scarlett and Melanie's relationship.

New Moon in the Twilight saga - I cried buckets over the course of this book. I know it's all teenage vampire angst, but in my defense I was extremely pregnant and hormonal at the time. ;)

Paradise by Judith McNaught - Again with the angst, but I was pregnant and hormonal when I read this one too!

Again the Magic by Lisa Kleypas - The flashback bit at the beginning was so sweet and sad.

On the Way to the Wedding by Julia Quinn - I thought this book was a little darker and more gut-wrenching than Quinn's usual light-hearted style.

Not a romance but the book I most recently remember crying over was one of the Georgia Nicolson series, Stop in the Name of Pants.

*spoiler*

There is a scene where her cat, Angus, gets hit by a car and she thinks he's going to die. I cried, and cried, and cried so much that when my son got home he was afraid someone in our family had died.

Gone With the Wind and Outlander, but particularly Dragonfly in Amber. I get teary eyed at least once in all the Bridgerton books, they all seem to have that one poignant moment.

I'm with adeptmagic -- almost anything makes me cry. I just shed a few tears reading It Had to be You and that book was mostly funny. For full-out sobbing, I guess most of the Outlander books leave me with puffy eyes and a headache.

Perhaps the only genre romance that has ever made me full out cry (and cry and cry) is Carla Kelly's One Good Turn. I don't really want to spoil the book for anyone who hasn't yet read it but suffice it to say that the heroine and members of her family are civilian victims of war. The dignity with which the heroine confronts her past and the strength she displays in moving forward with her life moved me more deeply than the behavior of just about any other character in romance. I started crying about halfway through the book and didn't stop until long after I'd turned the last page.

I do find myself getting a little teary-eyed when reading most of Kinsale's books, but don't usually actually cry.

I'm with adept, it doesn't take much for me to go hunting for a kleenex. The last ones were from Susan Mallery's Bakery Sisters series Sweet talk and Sweet spot I'm sure the third one is the same but haven't read it yet.

Julia

I can't think of the last time I cried reading a romance novel. Maybe that's because I tend to skip ahead to see how things turn out - and therefore I don't get too exercised if things look bleak.

But I'll probably cry a river when Rollo, Ian Murray's wolf/dog in the Outlander series, finally goes to the great forest in the sky.

I was a total mess at the end of Dragonfly in Amber. A blubbering idiot you might say.

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Almost all of the Nicolas Sparks books I've read make me cry at some point.

But, normally it is not very often I cry.