Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Tropes
Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Tropes is the type of list is always hard for me to write up because I honestly really enjoy most everything I read, but if you had to ask me what my favorite types of stories are they would include a little bit of the following tropes!
Fairy Tale Retellings
I love any and all fairy tale retellings, fractured fairy tales, or folktales from cultures I’m not as familiar with. I’m thinking of Midsummer’s Mayhem by Rajani LaRocca or The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste.
Recipes Integrated into the Story
I love to read and I love to cook, when you combine them together you can get some absolutely amazing stories! Try Summer of a Thousand Pies by Margaret Dilloway or Love Sugar Magic: A Dash of Trouble by Anna Meriano.
Book-themed Books
Is it surprising at all that I love books about books? Probably not! A few of my favorites include Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein and The Crossover by Kwame Alexander.
Large Family
I come from a family of three siblings, my parents, a few pets and a decently large extended family. I love reading about other families like that! Check out The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Yan Glaser and The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher by Dana Alison Levy.
Ambiguous Ending
This is one of the tropes that people either love or hate. I love to think about all the possibilities of the endings. And then as the ready, I get to choose my own way I think the book should end. A few titles with ambiguous endings include Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder or The Giver by Lois Lowry.
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4 Comments
Leelynn @ Sometimes Leelynn Reads
Okay ambiguous endings is a good one. But I’m always like “WHAT HAPPENED?!” and then it will bother me for a few days lol. Great list <3
Beth Erin
Great tropes! I love these too! My TTT
Sammie @ The Writerly Way
It seems a lot of people like food integrated in their stories, but it just makes me hungry. xD I sort of like it when it’s something unique that makes me want to look it up. But otherwise, I get frustrated that my stomach rumbles every time I open the book up LOL! I love book-themed books, though, and ambiguous endings is one of my favorite tropes, too! Though, I know a lot of people tend to get frustrated by it.
Here’s my TTT post.
Jessica at Booked J
Ambiguous Endings make my mind go around and around and around in the best ways. It gets me thinking. It gets the creativity going. Sometimes I hate when stories have no clear endings but most of the time I adore it. It’s one of the things that made me love the Gossip Girl book series so much–it ended with no relationships, and two best friends just walking out into the city lights together, with nothing but possibilities in the air. I think that’s the first time I experienced an ending like that and ever since, I’ve loved it, The Giver included. I don’t know, it just gets me almost every time!