Top 5 Wednesday is a weekly meme created by GingerReadsLainey. For more information on this meme, visit the Goodreads group. This week’s topic:
Tropes you hate
I wouldn’t say that I hate these. I’m just tired of them and whenever I encounter one, I get annoyed.
Love Triangles
— This one needs to go on a hiatus. I’m so over it. These days whenever I see it in a story, it immediately sours my reading. There are a few exceptions, however, like Snow Like Ashes where it doesn’t consume the plot or the protagonist.
Speaking of this, here’s a bit of sensational news on spicy love triangles in young-adult novels.
Pretty girl doesn’t realize how beautiful she is
— Really? I’d rather the character just own it that she’s beautiful and the author finds another way to portray her lack of self-confidence.
You gotta be bookish to be smart
— Now, don’t get upset. I like it when characters are book nerds like myself but just because a character is smart doesn’t mean that he has to be a great lover of books.
Stubborn protagonists
— I usually like them but in young-adult novels, the stubborn ones usually throw tantrums at some point and that’s annoying.
Romance
— Guys and girls can be friends, even when they work closely together. They don’t always have to hook up. They don’t always have to hook up because they’re in a young-adult story, or an action movie, or a horror movie (this last one baffles me. Who has time for a kiss when you’re scared out your wits?).
Zezee with Books 
Great list! I’m so with you on the pretty girl doesn’t know she’s pretty. Ugh! That made my list, too. I am so over that one!
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Thanks Tanya. Yea, it’s been over done and it would be good to flip it.
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The Love Triangle lost its flair back in the dark ages of Twilight. Any time a heroine is introduced to two guys in the story within the first twenty pages, you know a triangle is coming and I almost always know whose the “main” guy and whose the “second” guy. There’s no fun in it anymore or mystery.
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Yea. Even if I don’t know who the protagonist will end up with, most times I’m still not interested in finding out.
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I agree with pretty much all of these. I want more books where the guy and the girl are just friends and DON’T end up together. Great list! Xx
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Thanks Katie. I’d be so refreshing to read such a story.
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Great Top 5. “Who has time for a kiss when you’re scared out your wits?” – I wish more authors would realise this!
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Lol Thanks!
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