Happy Christmas, beautiful people! 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.
One of my all-time favorite sub-genres is fantasy. Mix it with romance and you get something really great as a result. There are so many fantasy romance books out there but today let’s focus on the indie books. They’re just as important and I so want them to get the hype other books get so this is why I’m going to be talking about them. You all can go and get them and get excited with me because for sure… for sure you all will love them.
Fantasy can really have anything; from dragons to princesses, to battles and curses. Fantasy is that world you dream about and crave in your dreams. Believe me I know all about that. I wish I could fall in love with a villain and fight alongside my one true love, defeating all the good heroes but I guess the world wanted me to be in a contemporary setting. Still fantasy makes me so happy and I escape to other worlds and learn a bit about their magic and their history. It’s always fascinating to me to read a book and get their history front and center without taking so long, right?
Fantasy is my second love but by no means it’s less than the first one. I’m always searching for that one fantasy book that can make me reread it in the future. If you want to know my favorite tropes or archetypes inside this sub-genre is the antiheroine trope but I seem to not find many antiheroines in my fantasy books. One day! I also love villains and morally grey heroes. I love the enemies to lovers trope in fantasy. Imagine kings from enemy kingdoms in an arranged marriage who will slowly fall in love through time and care. Fabulous right!
I won’t keep you much longer so you can go and add some books to your wishlists!