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  • exsanguinatrix@alien.topBtoBooksMost annoying trope?
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    1 year ago

    Honestly, for me, it’s very take it or leave it as a genre for me. Inclusion in other books or as a standalone doesn’t bother me at all unless the male love interest is awful or the sex scenes are out of pocket (dynamics are bad, unsexy descriptors, etc.)

    I tried Lucy on recommendations from friends and coworkers but was less than into it by the time I realized pretty much all her male leads are Like That™️ and yet the female protags still have the picket fence and kids with them anyway (if you read her epilogues). As I said…that’s not an escape for me.

    tl;dr picky picky


  • exsanguinatrix@alien.topBtoBooksMost annoying trope?
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    1 year ago

    Did a very cursory search and didn’t see it so I’ll post the one thing that truly prevents me from reading SO MUCH ROMANCE:

    Asshole and alphahole protags.

    Books are my escape. I don’t want to be introduced to a man I’d simply sink into the bushes a la Homer Simpson to avoid IRL, presented to me as the supposedly smoking hot love interest, yet whose attitude is capable of curdling milk. I have all but given up trying anything new that Lucy Score puts out, but this trope is unfortunately prevalent in way too many romances.