Books turn me into an emotional wreck. Seriously, I wish I was kidding. Normal people get sad and upset about normal things - the thought of dead puppies, the prospect of Kanye West as president of the U.S or their total inability to replicate Ariana Grande's flawless hairstyle. Me? Oh, I get sad when my character ships don't sail, when the protagonist doesn't live happily ever after and even when I comprehend the devastating reality that I'll never be able to marry Percy Jackson. Welcome to why reading transforms me into a tear dispenser.

Firstly, reading a book where the protagonist dies at the end absolutely kills me. Like it plunges a knife of why-did-you-do-this-to-me-cruel-author straight through my chest. *tear runs down cheek* I know realism and pure circumstantial statistics suggest that at least one of the main characters involved in a supernatural, apocalyptic or dystopian battle is going to end up maimed, exploded or dead somehow - but does that mean you have to rip out the still-beating hearts of the reader? My very biased opinion suggests not.

The other issue with reading a book series is that eventually it's going to come to an end. I know, it sucks because at some point you and Harry Potter are going to have to part your separate ways and you and Percy Jackson are going to have to say your last goodbyes. I mean, there's nothing worse than being a few pages away from the end of the last book of the series. Do you want to read the last, amazing details of the series finale? Of course! But do you want to get to the last word of the last sentence of the last page of the last book and then realise that there's no more? Like ever? HELL, NO.

And don't even get me started on book ships...The amount of cute little couples that I've wanted to end up as perfect soulmates always happen to end up with other random people that are so not as good for them. Why, author, why?

And I swear, the next time someone asks me why I get so emotionally invested in a book because after all 'it's not real', I am going to seriously consider throwing the hard copy edition of Eragon at their head and get them to see how real that feels.... Not too difficult to get emotional about a book now, is it?