Anonymous #1 9w

Literally! I don’t care about tropes I got all I needed to know about the plot in the synopsis tropes are so stupid to me

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Anonymous #2 9w

In romance books (if done properly) it’s usually insta love which basically is love at first sight they instantly have feelings for each other. Insta lust is they’re immediately attracted to each other and will probably fuck within the first three chapters. I hate insta lust if I wanted lust I would go date a college frat guy.

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Anonymous OP 9w

Oh hell no. I need that trope to stay far away from me

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Anonymous #1 9w

Y’all realize this is a *review* right? Not a promotion? I feel like this needs to be stated. Someone ELSE tropifying a book is not the author or the book’s fault. This seems a bit harsh.

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Anonymous #3 9w

Honestly, I don’t care whether it’s the reviewer or the publisher. I’m not going to dislike a book because of a reviewer’s marketing it based off tropes, but I am going to stand by my disdain for this way of recommendation no matter who it’s by, because the more we promote stories through these means, then the more they are going to be published with this intent.

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Anonymous #3 9w

And I would like to clarify that I never said anything against the book, only the action of promotion surrounding tropes, and that pertains to readers, authors, managers, etc.

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Anonymous #1 9w

Right except this *isn’t a promotion.* Like it seems a bit ridiculous to say this book is being promoted by tropes when it’s literally a review. Authors and managers have no control over that.

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Anonymous #3 9w

Yes, I know. The problem is that when people recommend books based only off things that are either spoilers for or have no real impact on the story, the people who DO write and manager books see this and then base their marketing around that. Outside of this review, there are so many novels that are being marketing in terms of things like “spicy romantasy, enemies to lovers, grumpy/sunshine” and not their actual plot, and that’s partly because that’s how people have taken to recommending them.

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