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!
Mutual pining creates so much tension. And I’m a sucker for tension, Be it physical or emotional. Mutual pining is when two people who like or love each other but think the other one isn’t interested, making this trope also a sort of unrequited love. What these two people do is pine for each other, not telling a soul about it, definitely not telling the other one about it and just keep thinking about what would happen if they do. Obviously in romance books this ends when one of them confesses and we get ourselves a very happily ever after.
I do love when this is accompanied with friends with benefits and the mutual pining just multiplies to the max, because now you gotta add their new sexual relationship while they are both so in love with each other yet they tell the other one that this is only sex and definitely not a relationship. There can be a lot of misunderstandings between them so beware of that, but I do love it so very much.