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 want to read romance but not the abs-kinda-romance.” I’ve heard/read this statement soooo many times. And each time I read it, it makes me angrier. It tells me that people view romance as something to be ashamed of. Or that if you like reading the abs-kinda-romance books, you’re less than the people who read other genres. It continues to baffle me that this is the sentence that I’ve seen the most on Twitter when they ask for recommendations. And maybe this is one of the reasons illustrated covers have come back and now more people are reading romance novels without feeling a certain kind of something whenever they’re showing they’re reading them. Which okay, you do you, but don’t shame people who love abs on covers. We do love some abs here and I’m about to show you some very good abs on some very great stories. You ready?