To explain a little about what this post will be about, I’m taking the intro I did for the last one: In every romance book you read there are tropes or archetypes. You can also see them in shows, movies, plays, etc. Romantic tropes are everywhere, and they are fabulous. I adore them. I adore some of them and I always tend to find my favorite ones in romance books so I can enjoy them more. I decided to do a sort of Trope Tuesday piece where I will be talking about many tropes and recommend you all some of my favorites that fit.
What is a trope? Urban Dictionary explains it best I think: “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 a 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 for sure. 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.
Why dream about a billionaire hero when you can dream about heroines who are CEOs? Not saying billionaire heroes aren’t great (they totally are!) but think about it: a female CEO ready to make you fall madly in love with her. Romance has every single trope or archetype you wish for, but today we’re going to scream about female CEOs in romance novels.
Sometimes they are stereotyped as being the “bitch” because they can handle any situation with a firm grip and ice-y determination. And that’s bull, to be honest. I would say to that so many words that probably I shouldn’t say right now. But what I do want to say is that I look up to every women who have their stuff together and are thriving and growing and glowing until forever. Go, you!
This is why I want to see more CEOs, company president’s heroines in romance fiction. You don’t know how much heroes are out there who are CEOs and most of the time the heroine always ends up being the secretary or assistant or someone working for them. Like sure, that can happen, but to continue to write this same scenario it just tells me we need something more. Also the power imbalance is never really mentioned or the heroine doesn’t think about it, which let me tell you, many think about it.
So this is sort of my way to share a light to these stories I’m mentioning next. I really wanted to give you all some more recommendations but I don’t really know more. If you do know more, let me know because I’m so very interested you don’t even know!