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I hope you're all doing well, and I want to thank you all for joining me today on The Preppy Book Princess.
I feel that anyone who's a bookworm probably has certain tropes that they find really irritating, especially when they're present in books over and over again, and I'm definitely no exception.
While I've talked many times on my blog about what some of my favorite tropes are, including the "famous or royal person falling for the regular person" and "a romance that develops from a friendship", I've yet to truly do a post on my least favorite bookish tropes, and I decided today was definitely the day to rectify that.
Insta Love:
It's no secret that I'm not a fan of insta-love in novels, and this is primarily because the romance never feels real or authentic when it develops like this Instead, it starts to feel more like insta-lust or insta-attraction. I'm not a fan of books that the whole relationship occurs over a timeline of a few days, as it really feels like the character's can't possibly have developed anything real in such a short period of time. Of course, there's always the rare exception that will catch me off guard like Jennifer E Smith's The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, but for the most part I'm just not a fan of this trope.
There was nothing special about her, and yet he couldn't get her off his mind:
Ugh! Currently, this is my least favorite bookish trope, and it's so overused, especially in the romance genre. Over and over an author will describe how a woman is plain, with nothing special about her, and yet the guy can't get her off his mind, and keeps being drawn to her. To start with, I hate this stereotype. There's something special about every woman, whether a man thinks so or not. Secondly, if there's nothing special about someone, why would you be drawn to them? If it's strictly attraction, there would have to be something about them that stood out to you? And if it's more than that, then they would have had to have revealed something about them self that appealed to you enough to be intrigued by them. This trope just plain irritates me, and I've read way too many cases of it over the last few years.
Love Triangles:
I'll admit that a well developed love triangle can often add another dimension to an amazing novel, but only when it feels authentic and real. Too often with love triangles it feels like the one romantic interest was only added in as an afterthought by the author to provoke tension between the main couple, and that the extra character has no real point to the story. So many times I'm left wondering how on earth the main character could be even remotely interested in the new love interest when they've literally had no interactions, and this seems to becoming an abundant occurrence, especially in Young Adult books.
Abusive Tendencies Being Marketed As Romantic:
This is one trope that annoys me so much that I've actually devoted an entire blog post to it, that you can find here. Our world nowadays is impressionable, especially the younger generations, and it's scary just how often in books, movies, music and TV Shows abuse is being marketed as romantic. If someone is controlling and abusive, you're not lucky for snagging yourself such a catch, you're actually beginning on a road you really don't want to travel, and it sickens me how often this is eaten up as romantic. In our current society, where women are fighting to be heard and to overcome the generations of male oppression we've been forced to live under, it seems odd how well movies like Fifty Shades of Gray are doing at the box office. While obviously none of us are perfect, we need to be better at recognizing how women truly deserve to be treated in a relationship, and separating abuse from romance.
and lastly,
Absentee Parent's/Family Issues:
The world's not perfect, and it makes sense that character's often have come from messed up family homes, with or without absentee parent's. However, I don't think this needs to be the case in every single book out there, and that's why books where the protagonist has great family relationships have really started to stand out to me.
And those are my current least favorite book tropes guys! I'd love to hear which tropes you're not a fan of in popular fiction!
Thanks so much for reading! And have a great rest of your day :)
This is not a sponsored post. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
I hope you're all doing well, and I want to thank you all for joining me today on The Preppy Book Princess.
I feel that anyone who's a bookworm probably has certain tropes that they find really irritating, especially when they're present in books over and over again, and I'm definitely no exception.
While I've talked many times on my blog about what some of my favorite tropes are, including the "famous or royal person falling for the regular person" and "a romance that develops from a friendship", I've yet to truly do a post on my least favorite bookish tropes, and I decided today was definitely the day to rectify that.
Insta Love:
It's no secret that I'm not a fan of insta-love in novels, and this is primarily because the romance never feels real or authentic when it develops like this Instead, it starts to feel more like insta-lust or insta-attraction. I'm not a fan of books that the whole relationship occurs over a timeline of a few days, as it really feels like the character's can't possibly have developed anything real in such a short period of time. Of course, there's always the rare exception that will catch me off guard like Jennifer E Smith's The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, but for the most part I'm just not a fan of this trope.
There was nothing special about her, and yet he couldn't get her off his mind:
Ugh! Currently, this is my least favorite bookish trope, and it's so overused, especially in the romance genre. Over and over an author will describe how a woman is plain, with nothing special about her, and yet the guy can't get her off his mind, and keeps being drawn to her. To start with, I hate this stereotype. There's something special about every woman, whether a man thinks so or not. Secondly, if there's nothing special about someone, why would you be drawn to them? If it's strictly attraction, there would have to be something about them that stood out to you? And if it's more than that, then they would have had to have revealed something about them self that appealed to you enough to be intrigued by them. This trope just plain irritates me, and I've read way too many cases of it over the last few years.
Love Triangles:
I'll admit that a well developed love triangle can often add another dimension to an amazing novel, but only when it feels authentic and real. Too often with love triangles it feels like the one romantic interest was only added in as an afterthought by the author to provoke tension between the main couple, and that the extra character has no real point to the story. So many times I'm left wondering how on earth the main character could be even remotely interested in the new love interest when they've literally had no interactions, and this seems to becoming an abundant occurrence, especially in Young Adult books.
Abusive Tendencies Being Marketed As Romantic:
This is one trope that annoys me so much that I've actually devoted an entire blog post to it, that you can find here. Our world nowadays is impressionable, especially the younger generations, and it's scary just how often in books, movies, music and TV Shows abuse is being marketed as romantic. If someone is controlling and abusive, you're not lucky for snagging yourself such a catch, you're actually beginning on a road you really don't want to travel, and it sickens me how often this is eaten up as romantic. In our current society, where women are fighting to be heard and to overcome the generations of male oppression we've been forced to live under, it seems odd how well movies like Fifty Shades of Gray are doing at the box office. While obviously none of us are perfect, we need to be better at recognizing how women truly deserve to be treated in a relationship, and separating abuse from romance.
and lastly,
Absentee Parent's/Family Issues:
The world's not perfect, and it makes sense that character's often have come from messed up family homes, with or without absentee parent's. However, I don't think this needs to be the case in every single book out there, and that's why books where the protagonist has great family relationships have really started to stand out to me.
And those are my current least favorite book tropes guys! I'd love to hear which tropes you're not a fan of in popular fiction!
Thanks so much for reading! And have a great rest of your day :)
This is not a sponsored post. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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