Here’s Where We Get to The Good Stuff
And now my favorite things about romance novels…
Yesterday I had a list of my biggest pet peeves in romance novels but today I am going to list all of the things I absolutely love about my most beloved genre. Please feel free to add your voice to the list. I am going to repeat myself because some things are specifics of a certain trope but let me enjoy myself.
I lovvvve….
Snowbound in a cabin. (I think My Favorite Souvenir is the closest I’ve come to this trope in the past year.)
One. Bed! (There are so many that my head is spinning. I love this trope! List in the comments if you can!)
Nap Dates. (This is very specific to Tessa Bailey’s The Sweetest Fix which I adored)
Road Trips! (Ball Peen Hammer by Lauren Rowe has this great trope and although it was too late for me to review it I mention it here. )
Cinnamon Roll Heroes (Ren from Always Only You, Leo from The Sweetest Fix, Marcus from Spoiler Alert)
A man who waits for a woman. (Forever Never by Lucy Score is the last one I read in which the man waited for the woman, le sigh. Unfortunately I didn’t review it but it is super hot and steamy and the above is the Amazon link to purchase it)
Fated mates. (I think Love at First by Kate Clayborn’s Will and Nora were fated.)
I love a sense of humor. (Lauren Rowe’s Ball Peen Hammer and Smitten and her Morgan Brothers books just crack me up.)
Grumpy v. Sunshine (By A Thread by Lucy Score and Always Only You by Chloe Liese offers a grumpy hero and a grumpy heroine and the sunshiney people who love them)
Forced Proximity (Not My Match by Ilsa Madden-Mills)
Fake Relationship (Call Me Crazy by Melanie Harlow)
Found Family (Love at First)
Friends to Lovers (Smitten, Now and Always by Theresa Leigh)
Enemies to Lovers (Pride & Papercuts by Staci Hart, Little Lies by H. Hunting) and mannnny more!
Forbidden love (Reel by Kennedy Ryan is sooooo good! Get it! Read it!)
And very importantly, men who are orally inclined and who go after a woman’s pleasure first, thank you romance authors for putting that out there in the world. Many blessings to you.
Most importantly, the HEA / HFN, which, why am I even mentioning it? It’s a GIVEN because romance novels = Happily ever after or Happy for now. But it bears repeating, it’s not a romance without a HEA / HFN, it’s just a book.
What are your favorite things / tropes about romance novels?