Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by the Broke and Bookish and now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl where bloggers are given a prompt that is usually a list of ten bookish things.
This weeks prompt was –
Love Freebie…. Top Ten Romance Tropes!
Rivals to Lovers – Celaena Sardothian and Sam Cortland are honestly one of the most beautiful couples I have ever read – just EVERYTHING about their relationship is swoonworthy. So Rivals-to-Lovers has to go to their romance in Assassins Blade.
Enemies to Lovers – Powerless, Kai Azer, Paedyn Gray. Everything about their relationship redeemed Enemies to Lovers for me, they are just such a swoony couple and I was supporting them from page one (that meeting scene….how could I not?)
Friends to Lovers – Changeling by Molly Harper (she is also best friends with his sister so we get the friends older brother trope in there too!)
He falls first and harder – Graceling, Kristen Cashore (tho Kat falls pretty hard for Po too!).
Flirty sparring – I think this again has to go to Powerless (I had to try really hard not to add sharing a bed non romantically and comforting them from nightmares because all of these are in the perfection that is Powerless).
Arranged Marriage – Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson – this was tricky, I love arranged marriage theoretically but it is rarely done well (if you have any recs I’d love them.) Arranged Marriage is a huge trope in it but not romantically.
Royalty/Aristocrat – I think that Jessica Day George’s couple from Dragonskin Slippers (review coming!) Luka and Creel might just have to take this one, the book is slightly younger than many of my other recs (still a 12+ because of violence etc) but it is 100% worth a read and it does hold up even as an older reader.
Slow Burn Romance – This was tricky because slow burn can mean over the book, the series or whatever but I think it goes to Connor and Jade from KM Shea’s Magiford subseries! It is the only book I haven’t written a full review on yet but I promise its coming!
Academia Romance – Deadly Education, slow burn, subplot romance, dark but stunningly intricate and deadly.
Do you have any recs with these or other tropes??
Happy Reading!
Lottie
Damsel in Delight 
I love the friends to lovers trope. It’s how my spouse and I ended up getting together!
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Aww! Thats so cute, Friends to Lovers is one of my favourites!
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Oh, interesting I recently read a Jessica Day George book and loved it (Tuesdays at the Castle) so now I’m curious about the one you mentioned! I love Friends to Lovers the most out of the ones you listed! My Top Ten Tuesday post.
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Tuesdays at the Castle is amazing and they get even better as the series goes on! Dragonskin Slippers is 100% worth it and the romance is so sweet
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Oh does it?! I was unsure if I wanted to continue the series but it’s good to hear it gets better as it goes. And I’ll add Dragonskin Slippers to my tbr! 🙂
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Yay! Tell me if you like Dragonskin Slippers – it’s honestly I think my favourite 🩷
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I’ll have to keep you in the loop if I get to it then 🙂 That’s so good to know!
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