Happy Friday, BookishFirst Readers!
What are your favorite book tropes to read?
If you didn’t know a tropes are commonly recurring literary and rhetorical devices, motifs or clichés in creative works.
My favorite book tropes I can think of are:
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the chosen one
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average person takes Crown
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the waiting evil
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betrayal
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best friend/sibling disappears
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their parents… aren’t their parents
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conveying words with a look
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Tropes I love are:
Same sex couples of different types getting together despite other people not agreeing because it will ruin the one family’s name
Love triangles
“Hidden identity” love triangles.
Best friend’s sibling/sibling’s best friend love
Childhood neighbors to lovers
Friends to lovers
Enemies to lovers
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Not a trope, but my favorite style is episotolary
Loving two people at once
Disappointing family because you are different
Challenging authority because you are a female leading a institution
I would love to hear some of the “hidden identity” love triangle books you’ve read or that you know of. I’ve realized I love this and am looking for more to read!