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 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.
This week’s trope is: romantic comedy. With this new trend of illustrated covers, most of the time romance books get titled “romantic comedy” when they are not. A cute, modern, illustrated cover doesn’t mean it’s going to be a romantic comedy and I wish that they would stop cataloguing them as such. They might have the romance under their belt, but the comedy? Where is it? We want that laughter that the romcom movies have given us. (Note: It doesn’t mean ALL of them aren’t romantic comedies, just saying that most of them aren’t and they’re shelved wrongly sometimes).
So I’m here to recommend you some laugh-out-loud, swoony as hell romantic comedy books. I hope you agree with me with the choices and that, you too, have spent a lot of time not be able to stop laughing and feeling all the emotions with these novels.