This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, is: Top Ten Things I Like/Dislike When It Comes To Romances In Books.
Dislikes
1. The Manwhore that changes his ways for the Everyday Girl who is actually more special than any girl in the whole world.
2. Love Triangles
3. Cheating
4. Friends with Benefits
5. When the plot starts bordering on erotica
6. Insta-love
Likes
6. The Fake Relationship Trope
7. When the Neglected Best Friend gets the girl/guy they’ve always loved.
8. Protectiveness without the obsession
9. Sarcastic guys
10. Foreign settings
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OMG! Number 1!! I completely agree!! Also, I’m giggling at the picture about removing the love triangle from Twilight. Hahaha.
My TTT!
Yeah Number 1 is almost every New Adult book I have read. No, no no! And I thought that pic was too good not too use!
LOL love this post! Who doesn’t love sarcastic characters?! 😀
Thanks! I love sarcastic love interests! When they’re good-natured. And even a few of them when they’re douchey haha.
😀 Great post Stephanie! I love sarcastic characters. They’re the best!
Thanks! They really are!
Sarcastic guys FTW!
Yes! I love good sarcastic couples!
I know where the fake relationship trope is going, and yet I’m still sucked in! Your number one made me laugh, I feel the need to print it out and frame it 🙂
Haha thanks! And yes, the fake relationship trope is SO predictable, but I always love it!
Is #5 about romance novels specifically? Because if so, then yes, I hate it when it just borders on erotica. I demand full-blown erotica, thank you very much! LOL
LOL. I’m not a fan of erotica, but as long as it’s clearly marked as such, to each their own! I don’t like when erotica masquerades as a regular romance, though.
Wow, we are on the SAME PAGE with our romance likes/dislikes! I am also a huge fan of the fake relationship trope… any good recommendations along those lines??
I thought Falling for her Fiance by Cindi Madsen was super cute. The Perfect Match by Kristan Higgins is also good (she’s also my favorite romance authors). To all the boys I loved before by Jenny Han wasn’t as good as I thought it was going to be, but I liked the fake relationship part of it. What about you? Do you have any good fake relationship recommendations? As I was trying to come up with some good recommendations I realized I haven’t read a ton of them.
Somehow, I totally missed your reply to my comment! Anyway, I’m terrible at thinking of books when I’m trying to, so nothing is coming to mind, even though I *know* I’ve read some… really, the only one I can think of is a bit different, Lori Wick’s “The Princess”, where the main couple are married first and fall in love later (it’s a super fun book and one of my favorite love stories, but very Christiany which doesn’t work for some people). Thanks for the recs!!!
I’m good with Christian Fiction. I just added this to my TBR list. Thanks for the rec!
#1 is LOL worthy!
Haha Thanks 🙂
haha yeah I totally agree with your number one. I like to understand why both of them love each other! She’s special? Why? Yep, I agree with all of these. Why doesn’t the best friend who loves her ever get her? That should so happen! Sarcasm is always a plus.
Yesssss to number 1!!! Lol Why do they think every girl wants to tame the ultimate bad boy? If that’s your big fantasy ladies …..dream bigger!
Love triangles! LOL….
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