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 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 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.
Grim Reapers are beings, the personification of Death, that collect people who have died; they collect their souls. You can also find them as Death Gods or Death, but reapers is also a way to name them. There are a lot of depictions of them in media and entertainment and since reading Seducing Chaos by Luna Quinn, I became fascinated by characters that are Grim Reapers. After that I watched the Korean drama, Goblin, and the Death God featured was simply hilarious and epic. Then we have Bleach, shounen manga, with an amazing reaper system; we have even The Sims showing Death collecting the dead Sims (you can even romance the Grim Reaper!). I’m a romantic at heart, you know it, and this is a romance tropes column so it’s fitting to show the Grim Reaper falling in love, am I right? It’s a pretty wild concept but it is definitely out there!