Echopraxia, the boy is a conscience destroying virus and the girl is the earth entangled with this other boy, "humanity". The conscience destroying boy travels across the universe to finally end up with the girl
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Some books that could partially fit:
- In Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert a boy loves a woman who is already married
- In Anna Karenina by Levy Tolstoy a married woman falls in love with a young man
- In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne a man loves a married woman
- In The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, by Henry Fielding, a poor boy likes a rich girl, but the father of the girl does not agree, but they end up together
- In The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni, the boy wants to marry the girl, but a very rich and powerful man is in love with the girl and want to marry her too
- In The End of the Affair by Graham Green, both the man and the woman are with someone else and they end up together
- In Twilight by Stephenie Meyer there is a teenage love triangle with warewolves and vampires
"Children of time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky amazing sci-fi story if you like aliens that are actually aliens (diferent fisionomy, instead of humanoid)
It's a great book but I dunno about boy meets girl. It's more civilisation dies and is reborn a few thousand years later with the weird leftovers of the previous one.
Or did it have a romance I am forgetting?
I'd hardly call it a romance, there is a subplot, but the person just didn't bother reading the prompt.
That said, I'd also highly recommend children of time lol
Name of the wind by Patrick Rothfuss
OP be aware that this is a series that is unfinished and will likely never be finished. Good books but donβt read it expecting an ending
Pretty good book, but doesn't fit with what op needs.
It kinda fits if you turn your head sideways and squint real hard. What OP is asked for is definitely not the main plotline.
It's not just that it's not the main plotline..
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They never go past friends, despite all their flirting or whatever that is. And they obviously don't end up together since it's just him and bast at the inn
That is very true. I probably was not in right headspace to be recommending anything.
Not a proper recc
I think it's a great rec. Rothfuss's style is amazing and everyone should experience it. (And more people need to feel the pain of knowing they'll never get to read the end :p) It's true that it doesn't fit with what op wanted, but well... They just need to go into it with the proper expectations so as to not be disappointed.
My Doors of Stone fan continuation does this though. /s
Ken Follett actually likes to do this. Pillars of the Earth and its sequel World Without End both have it. A dangerous fortune does, too. They're all primarily historical fiction though, the romance is always just a part of it.
Pride and prejudice.
Dear god what a boring story
The Silence of the Lambs.
In the Days of the Comet
Youth in Revolt