Perhaps you know they are never going to end up finding love or they raised one too many death flags in the latest chapters, or perhaps it was one of their family or friends. But you got so invested in their well-being and you enjoy reading about that character so much that you just don’t want to continue the story knowing (or thinking you do) that even in the end they won’t find their happy end (or the one you would wish them to find).
I get so involved at times with some of the characters, usually secondary and introduced at a later point in the story, and I tend to be rather emotional, so whenever I feel such a situation coming I just stop and go read something else, even though finishing my books as soon as possible is what I enjoy.
by Standard-Metal-3836