Tropes you'll always pick up, and ones you'll never touch
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R. S. Breed Founder
Everyone has a trope that gets them every time. Put "found family" on a cover and I'm reading it, whatever else is going on.
And everyone has one that makes them put a book straight back. For some people it's a love triangle. For others it's amnesia, or the chosen one, or a twist you can see coming from chapter two.
So, two questions:
- Which trope will you always pick up?
- Which one is an instant no?
Bonus points if you can say why. "Enemies to lovers, because I love watching two people have to admit they were wrong" is more useful to the rest of us (and to any authors reading) than just the name.
If you've found a book here that nails your favourite, link its page so others can find it too. Every trope has its own page under Books by trope.