Hiya readers and welcome to another discussion post! Feel free to jump in at the bottom and leave your thoughts on this trope, which I’m sure many of us are familiar with! The Trope Itself The trope for “Asshole With a Heart of Gold” is essentially based around a character–usually a man, the male romantic […]
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Introduction: What is the trope? This trope typically appears in vampire romances. The question is whether or not the vampire in the relationship should or shouldn’t turn the human. Often, the question comes up for a variety of reasons. The obvious and practical reasoning is that a vampire is immortal and typically never ages, whereas […]
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Blogtober Day 10: Ghostly Tropes I Like
Yes, it’s time for another spooky tropes post! These will be tropes I like that involve ghosts or appear often in ghost themed books, horror or not. Connection to the Dead I enjoy when a book is about a descendant of a ghost, or focuses on somebody that has a strong connection to a deceased […]
Introduction Vampires themselves are very interesting when used as tropes, but today I specifically want to address when vampires are placed in a “romantic” place. Generally this is in a paranormal romance story where the vampire is the primary love interest, or a rival love interest. Different tropes continue to feed into the trope of […]
Today I want to talk about a common trope in romance novels across the board: the main female heroine being “plain.” I put plain in quotation marks because most of the time a subplot of the book is the love interest trying to convince our heroine that she is in fact beautiful, and based on […]
Defining the trope This trope represents a particular type of character. They’re bisexual, but they’re a major mess! Sometimes this mess means that they just haven’t figured out how to be an adult yet, and sometimes it’s a bit more complicated depending on what kind of a story we’re talking about. The messiness comes about […]
Intro: Defining the trope All right book bees, for this post I’ll be discussing the “fish out of water” trope. This trope is essentially when a character is taken dramatically out of their most comfortable settings. The obvious example is when a mermaid (or similar creature) is transformed to a human form and takes to […]
Introduction I’ve said before that I’m not always a fan of YA novels when adult novels of the same concept are available. This is largely due to the way YA protagonists are written and my inability to care about or understand them. Still, there are some amazingly creative YA novels out there and some brilliant […]
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Top Favorite Tropes to Read
Hello book bees! Today I will be discussing my favorite tropes to read in books, in no particular order! Let’s get started, shall we? Enemies (to friends) to Lovers Yes I am one of the many guilty lovers of this trope. I just really enjoy when a set of enemies with significant sexual tension actually […]
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