I can’t believe it’s still a conversation online on what classifies as a romance novel? Like, it’s kind of a given that it is NOT A ROMANCE NOVEL if it doesn’t end with a Happily Ever After. It can be a romantic book, but it is NOT A ROMANCE, thanks. If I’m reading a romance novel, I want that HEA. That’s why I’m reading romance. There are a lot of good tropes in the romance genre. And then there are some that need to burn away in a fire until there’s nothing left. And there are some that fall in between the ‘ohmygod yes please‘ and ‘oh god why‘, and…