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 Friday 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 is all about hate to love, tho. Or more so dislike to love. I know “hate” is such a strong word. When someone really hates you, how can you fall in love with them, right? So I guess most of the books I categorize as hate to love before are really dislike to love because they just like to banter and there is for sure some sort of rivalry and opposites attract happening. But they don’t really want to end the other person. Unless we’re talking about SFF which is definitely different and I love them too! There are definitely many variations to this trope, that’s the fascinating part!
What I love about this trope is the banter definitely. It’s the conflicting feelings they have when they realize “wait a minute… but I didn’t like this person! Why am I blushing and having butterflies in my tummy!” It’s so interesting to me really. Another thing is that most of the times one main character has wrongly judge the other main character and viceversa and this is where the dislike to love trope enters because when they finally get to know better or realize that hey this person isn’t so bad as I thought, the falling in love part starts. Truly there are so many things that one can love about this trope: add the childhood friends trope and you get years of them knowing each other but having that big ball of tension between them.
Some of my favorite books have this trope of course. I’m here to share the love and really make you all read them too and share your thoughts with me! You can totally @ me on Twitter and do the thing. I’m so into talking about books with fellow readers so I get too excited 24/7. Let’s get started with those titles, alright?