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.
Today I give the microphone to marriage of convenience. Let me just tell you this is one of my most favorite tropes in the world. “We’re only doing it because it’s convenient for both of us but oops we just got feelings for each other” is a perfect way to describe this trope. It can happen in many scenarios but I see it and you can see it a lot in historical romances. But there are for SURE contemporary romances with marriages of convenience. You can find them side by side with maybe the character has an inheritance but they have to get married first so they can get that money! It’s seriously the best thing ever.
What I love most about it is that the characters usually at the beginning of the story create this sort of contract or mutual agreement that they won’t interact much, they will have their separate lives and they don’t have to even see each other. But this obviously changes completely as the story goes. They start to spend time together, here and there, they even act as spouses and it’s glorious to see them be domestic and HELLO! They are already married so it makes it ten times better because we know that they’re together already even if they haven’t gotten to that point yet.
Let’s share some titles, alright?