Both leads are secretly in love — and each is sure the other isn't.
Mutual pining is dramatic irony as romance: the reader sees both sides of the longing while the characters each believe they're alone in it. Dual point-of-view books make the most of it.
Thomas Hardy
Louise Penny
Joe R. Lansdale
Colleen Monroe
John McPhee
Joe R. Lansdale
Valerie Tripp
Joe R. Lansdale
Russell Hawes Kettell
Janisse Ray
Salina Yoon
Charlotte Zolotow
Joe R. Lansdale
Lizzie Shane
Lizzie Shane
Rocco Mediate, John Feinstein
Judy Mofield Mallow
Michael Persiano, & Staff Wayne Schoech, Masahiko Kimura
Judy Mallow
Lizzie Shane
Lizzie Shane
Sam Dible Nursery
Joe R. Lansdale
Louisa Anne Meredith
Joe R. Lansdale
Roger Reid
Lawrence S. Earley
John William Harshberger
Joe R. Lansdale
Joe R. Lansdale
Thomas H. Lewis anthropologist
Janisse Ray
Richard T. T. Forman
G. Collins Wheat
Howard P. Boyd
Hilda Stahl
Aljos Farjon
Agnes Mathilda Larson
William H. Hylton
Judith Miller
Robert W. Swedberg
Patricia Leitch
Ellen Weiss
Yasuyuki Hiratsuka
Jill L. Wilson
Wil Mara
Blair Howard
Mary L. Duryea, P.M . Dougherty
Both leads are secretly in love — and each is sure the other isn't. Mutual pining is dramatic irony as romance: the reader sees both sides of the longing while the characters each believe they're alone in it. Dual point-of-view books make the most of it.
Popular mutual pining books include Jude the Obscure (1895), A Trick of the Light (2011), Mucho Mojo (1994), A Wish to Be a Christmas Tree (2000) and The Pine Barrens (1968).