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!
Coworker trope is definitely different from a boss/employee trope. I think of the coworker trope as the characters being equal in terms of their positions. If there is a power dynamic, there shouldn’t be a big one or one at all; they might even be working in different areas in the same company. The boss/employee trope is one in which the boss has so much power over the other character that it can affect their job and everything surrounding it. I don’t really tend to read those because it’s always very messy.
But in this Trope Rec Tuesday you won’t see that. You will have two people who are working together in the same place. As I said, they might even be working in different areas and not see each other so much, but maybe they have had a crush for them for a while now? Or they can be working together on a project and have to spend so much time together, even after everyone is gone and they’re all alone at the office? You can really play with this trope a lot so there are definitely various scenarios in these novels where our lovely coworkers are going to fall in love. MADLY.