To explain a little about what this post will be about, every Trope Tuesday post starts with the same introduction. In every romance book you read there are tropes or archetypes you find inside its pages. You can also see them in shows, movies, plays, etc. Every type of entertainment and media. Romantic tropes are everywhere, and they are fabulous. I adore them and I always tend to find my favorite ones in romance books so I can enjoy them even more. Trope Tuesday is a weekly column where I share books that I know people will enjoy with a specific central trope.
What is a trope? Urban Dictionary explains it best: “Despite the erroneous definitions already published here, trope on the interwebs really refers to an often overused plot device. It can also be described as another variation on the same theme. TV shows, movies, comics, games, anime’, & books are full of tropes & many rabid fan-sites now name & track said tropes with self-explanatory title for each one.” We can name a few: accidental pregnancy, best friends to lovers, sibling’s best friend, marriage of convenience, and so many more. Your favorite couples? They probably got a trope too! It’s always so nice to realize or find out your favorite romance trope and keep searching for books with the same theme. So really? I’m just helping you find that new favorite book of yours. If ever you want a post on a trope I haven’t done yet, do drop me a tweet at @thebookvoyagers and let me know!
I don’t tend to read science fiction romance books, but when I do, they end up being fabulous and I ask myself repeatedly why I don’t read this genre more. There are so many elements to a SF romance book but today we’re specifically talking about alien books. And this means that one or both characters who will fall in love in this novel are aliens. Complex aliens that don’t really know about feelings and are hard to crack but slowly experience these new emotions towards someone. Sounds amazing, right?
Let’s take this romance out of Earth and onto the next world. I bet it’s hard to come up with a new system, new rules, a new world that these characters are going to live in. I’m always amazed by the authors who write SFF books because it’s a whole new world to write and dive into. Let’s check out these alien romance books shall we?