Does anyone else get that crushing sense of loss when they finish a good book?

[u/TheNakedMoleRat]

Just finished The Count of Monte Cristo after a reading it in all my spare time for the last two weeks. I'm in that post-book slump I get after reading something really good. Does everyone get this? Does noone?

Edit: Glad I'm not the only one! Looks like most people are saying they miss the characters, which I'm totally on board with. But I also think it feels even bigger than that...like a sadness that you just can't re-experience it all for the first time!

[u/[deleted]]

I've experienced the opposite too. I remember picking up The Hobbit by chance in high school. Had never heard of it. I was really sad when it was over and then I saw that there were three more middle-earth books, I felt absolute euphoria. I felt the same euphoria after each book.

[u/TRT_ → u/[deleted]]

Including 'The Return of the King'?