When I set up this blog, I made a note to myself that I was going to write a post about tropes in books. What exactly that post would be eludes me – my notes are scattered in various notebooks as this was the pre-bujo era – but finally, finally, I am sitting down to write a post on tropes. Because tropes, love them or hate them, exist. Tropes are fun. I tend to lean more towards loving them in some cases. There are certain tropes that I will pick up almost immediately when they are advertised in the blurb of the book. These are the tropes I search for…