Book Tropes that Need to Go Away x Book Tropes that Need to Appear More Often

Dina O.
Sep 27, 2017
3 min read

There are book tropes that appear so often that you're getting sick of them. There are also book tropes you cannot get enough and demand for them to keep on appearing.

I have my own book tropes on each category.

Let's see.

Book Tropes that need to go away. Seriously though.

Dead Characters Coming Back to Life --- Am very sick of dead characters coming back to life with ridiculous explanation. If this is Harry's case at the ending of Deathly Hallows, I surely still accept that because that makes a hell of a sense. But a character coming back to life by possessing someone with the ability she doesn't know she has then planning on getting inside her head and planting a repeated whisper "pull me out from my grave" then tadaa ba dum tsss COMING BACK TO LIFE????? Go die again and never appear. (I might as well just put some Teen Wolf reference here lmao I cannot help it)
Love Triangle --- just...stop. i DNF An Ember in the Ashes, a potentially good book just because it has love square going on there and because the MC Elias couldn't stop thinking about how soft her lips must be or how smooth her touch---blah blah he's devastated for anything romantic, guys. Pathetic as fuck.
Love Cures Mental Illness --- is bullshit. I wonder how many psychologists are offended by this trope. Only if it can be cured with love, they wouldn't be sitting where they are now.
Insta Love --- I find myself sometimes having no problem with this trope, but if the author wants to write something insta-love-y, please reevaluate everything. Because when it's failing, it's failing so bad that I feel secondhand embarrassment. Plus, I'd prefer slow burn romance.
Kids Hating Their Parents --- I have issues with my parents but it doesn't necessarily mean I hate them to the core. Fine if kids are hating them because they are abusive, but hating them for no reasons other than teenage emo? Get out.
Killing Every Character Existed HOHOHO --- PLEASE STOP MY HEART IS DYING.

Those are some of book tropes that I could think about right now. Bad book tropes is actually very tricky and subjective, because if the author can twist their story so that it doesn't seem so bad, the reader won't be anxious to read it.

Moving to the next category!

Book Tropes that Need to Appear More Often ^_^

Slow Burn Romance --- As I've mentioned before, I really love slow burn romance that makes me clench my fist in a happy way. Let's take an example on Stydia the love of my life and top OTP. They're perfect example OK.
Siblings Relationhip --- AYYYYY Yes please this is my favorite trope ever.
Childhood Friends Become Lovers --- Like Lola and Cricket ^_^
Hero/Heroine Killing Villains --- All books I read mostly portraying their MCs as saints and always give redemption to bad people. But actually, for someone who's not completely against death penalty (depends on the case), some people stay bad and deserve punishment. CALL ME SADISTIC, maybe it's because I have a thing for anti-heroes.
Deep Motivating Conversation Frequently Happens --- I love seeing people talking with psychologists and I always like how they talk to them. Like the ones in 'The Rest of Us Just Live Here' by Patrick Ness or 'Some Kind of Happiness' by Claire Legrand. I also love general motivating conversation and books need to have at least idk heaps of it??