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handle with care; the tropes edition
More tropes! I’m not going to lie, I sort of imagined myself throwing some confetti in the air while shouting this. I don’t know why, but it is possibly because I’m running on a little sleep and nothing but coffee in my stomach. In the last post, I talked about tropes that I will always read – and sometimes be disappointed by, of course that happens. But in this post, I will talk about tropes that might be over-done, but sometimes? Can be written in a fresh way that I find myself enjoying them. And surprisingly, this time all the tropes are not romantically inclined! Just – most of them.…
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instant to-read; the tropes edition
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…