READING BOOKS TITLED WITH BOOK TROPES ✨

[@jessethereader]

what's your favorite & least favorite trope?? give me the tea!

[@lizbradley7489]

Fake dating /fake relationships like come on please you know that the couple who are fake dating are going to get together at the end

[@amritasengupta5251]

Insta love 😢

[@mochi_72]

I hate all tropes too just because they are spoilers for the book. I like going into a book blind and be suprised by it and not be expecting a specific storyline. For example why would I pick a book that's marketed as having a huge plot twist? It robs you from emotions of surprise and from making predictions and speculations. (The thing about plot twists is that you DON'T SEE THEM COMING)

[@emerkinsella470]

Fave trope fake dating or strangers to lovers least favourite :insta love or love triangles

[@jojoolmsted1120]

The chosen one trope. It's fine but I feel like it is so overused in like every fantasy. It's just so irritating, please think of something else. Especially in young adult specifically I feel that it is the vast majority if not all uses the trope.

[@JessicaC.Wright]

So what I'm hearing is: If a book is named after a trope, it will do everything in it's power to subvert expectations of the trope

[@jessethereader]

haha well it sure seems that was my experience!

[@sawsaneldarrat7008]

Totally agree! I don’t like the over marketing with tropes, I also want to know as little as possible before I go in.

[@Mostirrelevant]

It is not what he stated, and not knowing what a genre book is about is bit...well, blurbs exist for a reason. It is your opinion and I do respect that

[@lightdarkness]

Fun idea! Btw, as a librarian, thank you for using and talking about library! And I'm putting a hold on the Tingle book, that sounded intriguing.

[@namefaceageirrelevant]

Honestly, I now actively avoid books the lead with tropes in their marketing material. I just can’t stand it. I don’t want to hear the characters are “grumpy/sunshine” or “cinnamon rolls” - that tells me nothing about who they ARE. /rant

[@BookishDaddy]

Exactly!!!

[@Mostirrelevant]

Calling charcters in such manner...it is below publishing standard. I do understand all the problems with book bans, but I do have a suggestion, and it is about the controle of the process or evaluating if cinamon rolls and hot girls are really gonna sell the novel at all or should author revise the work. You are probably not the only one and majority probably does share your opinion.

[@robadri8266]

Preach!

[@eht367]

This was such a fun idea!!! Thoroughly enjoyed hearing how the titles held up to the actual tropes themselves. My favourite trope at the moment is grumpy/sunshine, though I do also love a good prophesy/chosen one. Least favourite is definitely love triangles. They're always so contrived and it's always obvious who the main pairing is anyway

[@karinalemieux9396]

This has nothing to do with this video but I wanted to say thank you! In one of your previous videos where you got coffee at a place called Scooter’s, you peeked my interest. Turns out, I have one near me that I never knew about. Now, my husband and I cannot get enough of it! I wanted to thank you for indirectly showing me one of my new favorite places to share with my husband!! 😭♥️

[@gabriellabatel]

now i need to read chosen ones

[@banaa9463]

Oooh yes I would love if you do a part two with at least one "less safe" title!

[@MichaelaWagner]

"It's Arrgust" is sennnnding me what a delightful sign

[@shelbprestidge]

I really appreciate that you find books that aren't talked about as much! I had never heard of Not Like Other Girls, and I added it to my TBR!

[@fanpiresam482]

I read Bury Your Gays last week and i had given it a 3.5 but then a few days ago Fire Meet Gasoline by Sia came on my spotify and I was full on sobbing about Destiel for the first time in like 5 years. So that book woke up my broken shipper heart like a f*cking sleeper agent. So I felt forced to change my rating to 5 stars.

[@mar0000]

I love how you always have interesting video ideas! Also, you introduce me to books i've never heard of before. Hope you have a great day😊

[@Galaxia7]

Tropes being just in the title like that, it was clear they would subvert them in some ways. I initially thought you'd read these books that are "[title] a [trope] romance" these ones had more chances ti play them straight. Although it's a good thing fir you that you didn’t choise those ones, since the ones you chose had more chance to be good.

[@reflectiverambling1148]

I got an ARC of Bury our Gays... horror is hit and miss but I was EATING IT UP. It was BRILLIANT... and.... ace power for the win. iykyk.

[@august7421]

i'm so sick of the heat too, but it's started to feel like fall in massachusetts this past week so i'm taking the vibes and running with them 🍂😂

[@kitkatkc9]

Portal fantasy is more of a sub-genre 🤗 when you said waitress I didn’t know it was a movie so I thought you were talking about a person and was laughably confused until it clicked 😂 Favorite trope- chosen one. For contemporary, would hard-hitting topics be considered a trope? 🤔 Least favorite- miscommunication

[@jaginaiaelectrizs6341]

The genre is portal fantasy, but the trope is probably "falls into another world" or "down the rabbit hole" or something. Lol

[@mackenziemc]

4:49 I loved “The Chosen Ones”, I actually read it the year it came out.

[@juniebooks6113]

I actually don't mind knowing what a book's tropes are; it can help me decide what I feel like reading when I'm in the mood for something specific. My favorite trope would have to be found family, and my least favorite is probably not like other girls.

[@CozyReadswithSarah]

I loved this video! I agree with you about not liking the “I’m not like other girls” trope. I added the book to my library waitlist. I also don’t like love triangles and feel it’s over played and hyped. Great video! 🎉

[@SuperStrangSshadow]

Vincent Price was from St. Louis.❤

[@joycerollins2582]

Jesse we need to petition to get a Half Price Bookstore brought to Springfield!!! I love that store!

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

This was such a fun vlog concept and I’m glad you liked all the books for the most part! I have camp Damascus and it sounds like I really need to read it now 😮 and get back to Veronica Roth again!

[@Jane42.]

Great idea for a video! I have Camp Damascus on my shelf. You remind me that I should get around to it soon. I think my fav trope is found family. I hate miscommunication as a trope.

[@camilaarmani8566]

This was a great concept for a video! I´m glad you liked the books you read. And I love me some enemies to lovers. 😆

[@mirrojas]

I’m so curious, as someone who has lived in the desert in CA their whole lives, what is Missouri like? The only state near I’ve spent a lot of time in is Oklahoma & Georgia. I have family in Oklahoma & I missed being surrounded by mountains after the first week haha😅

[@jaginaiaelectrizs6341]

Thank you for make my tbr grow again! 🤭🤣🤣😊💖 Also, thank you for another great vid, as usual!!!

[@nijinoshita3301]

I have not read any of those books, but Chosen Ones recently found its way onto my tbr, and you liking it gives me more hope about it! fav: idk if its a trope... I guess everything is, but I really like contemporary/LGBT+/prince and commoner (who does not work for anything to do with the royal family) trope. maybe too specific xD - Enemies to Lovers, Soulmates, Chosen One, are all tropes I enjoy, though mostly in fanfics I hate love triangles, though i did recently pick up the first volume of a manga that has the subversion of the love triangle where the love interests get together which is something I was looking for, we'll see how it is for anyone wanting to know what the Manga is called Spoiler: (Blue Flag)

[@chehakmarothi6389]

Not 2Ha just chilling there in the beginning 😭

[@twistedlinguistic7347]

I would like to see a vlog where you read Friends to Lovers and Enemies to Lovers! I don't hate books w tropes in the titles. I just finished Second Tide's the Charm and I highly recommend it!

[@typeonereader]

It actually really makes sense that you would like horror books tbh!

[@LilianaE]

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[@lostmymindinbooks]

Can relate on the fire in the neighbourhood situation, a few months back we had exactly that situation next door 😅 luckily it was small, too My fave is probably Found Family and Love Triangles (as long as they are done right aka polyamorous), my big hates are Pregnancy Trope and Bully Romance.

[@alexhreads7951]

I've met you a couple of times at a couple book events in STL. But it still weirds me out when in any case where someone not from here talks about it. Like the second you say outdoor venue, I knew it was the muny (which is incredible and always has outstanding shows even when the weather is hot and humid.) but also so weird for me to see people showing things I go to normally in my city.

[@purplexzombie3371]

1. Have you tried Tony's chocolonely? They are SO good 2. My favorite trope is probably Found Family. My LEAST favorite is probably fake dating. If I see that trope I usually won't even pick the book up.

[@BrandontheBeldam2993]

I don’t know if I read enough of the right books to have a favorite of least favorite trope. Call me basic I just read what I like regardless if popularity of a book is a factor. I read Camp Damascus and enjoyed it for the most part, but ended up giving it a 3 star because it went against my expectation. Still well written and I like the mc and author is on the spectrum like me. I’m so excited you’re getting into horror Jesse🎉

[@tayxolly9871]

Fave: found family Least fave: love triangle, age difference, lust treated as love. Most of my least fave usually involve romantic elements 😅

[@panicatthebts7434]

I actually love a lot of tropes but hate the use of them in marketing if that makes sense. I love a good enemies to lovers, but some books promoted that way are a let down because the characters were never truly enemies. I do loath love triangles in pretty much all cases though! 😂 Chosen One can sometimes annoy me but I love fantasy too much for that to actually negatively affect my enjoyment of the books. But I really loved the concept of this video and want to read some of these books now!

[@Bucky749]

Favorite trope Harem the kind where guy isn’t trying to get a harem Examples In another world with cell phone And Sekeri. Or ninja girls Worst trope : the who me trope where hero to take the big bad is some random farmer or some one you wouldn’t expect.

[@lizbradley7489]

My favorite trops is enemies to lovers and friends to lovers my least favorite is fake dating/fake relationships

[@natasagajic1061]

I personally prefer knowing which tropes are there, as I prefer making informed decisions when picking up a book. Tropes are a good way to help figure out whether I'd like the book or not. Like, if I hear that a story contains, for example, fated mates, I'm out, but if it, say, contains found family - color me intrigued. Now for favorite and least favorite tropes, that's a hard question and depends on the genre. Cheating and Not Like Other Girls can go burn in a trash can, as far as I am concerned, while a slow-burn, proper hate-to-love as well as a non-harem isekai are some of my favorite tropes.

[@wilsonrobrondays1861]

favourite trope: friends to love . Least favourite trope: Love Triangle.

[@astoldbykat]

My favorite trope is found family, and my least favorite is easily the love triangle. I hated it when I was a teen, and I hate it now. I had "Bury Your Gays" on my radar, but you've definitely convinced me to pick it up!

[@juliacash8135]

For one of your next trope reads you should try love triangle by Norris Elliott. I have not read it but the description sounds like a cheesy comedy romance that would be fun to read for a video like this and could be good.

[@autiger509]

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[@juliacash8135]

If you like Veronica Roth I would highly recommend her ya epic fantasy series starting with carve the mark! It’s a really good fantasy by her if you haven’t already read it!

[@Mostirrelevant]

I am sorry, I do understand it is probably a trend or a common thing in USA to follow the trends, but there are so many great books written not too long ago, it is shame to miss them. These books are mainly genre books, if I am not mistaken. Among them, there are a really good ones, but of you are bored with these, there are magnificiently enormous possibilities to read beyond genre literature, like biographies, from music and sport stars to great historical figures, how to do books on all kinds of topics, poetry, stage plays, fairy tales, gorish books, psychological horros like Tenant, some love novels that did defy the genre expectations, Brontë sisters' writing are classic and language is probably bit difficult, but their love stories really stand out for a good reason.

[@monika6313]

Very fun idea for a video 😻

[@emmal7510]

Not sure I'm ever going to read Chuck Tingle, but I'm deeply amused by his career transition from weird erotica to traditionally published horror author.

[@lost.in.prose.]

I sometimes feel tropes really spoil the books when i already know what the tropes are!

[@august7421]

my favorite trope would probably be found family or a quest situation, and my least favorite is when the "suddenly has powers" character immediately knows how to use them and then loses them at the end!

[@heatherbocks]

My favourite trope is obsessive toxic codependent queers 😂 we need more of this please

[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

I wish there was half price books in Canada 😭

[@Bucky749]

Here’s an idea read one novel from Star Trek , Doctor who and Star Wars I can give you a random title for of the three series Star Trek I don’t know unuff 1. Doctor who sands of time . 2. Star Wars shadows of the empire .

[@a.p907]

Favorite trope: has to be when nonhuman characters try to pretend to be human and blend in Least Favorite: LoveTriangle. Only The Hunger Games did well and it kind did it in a way that it sorta wasn't a love triangle.

[@jaginaiaelectrizs6341]

Not Like Other Girls is literally how I felt, growing up. I didn't feel like it was a bad thing to be like other girls, but I *did* feel like it was a bad thing that other people expected me to be or wanted to force me in some ways to be more like them / other girls, I felt like too many people treated it like it was a bad thing to be in their opinions too much unlike other girls when I felt that every person being their own unique/independent/individual self should be fine no matter how similar or dissimilar to each other. It kind of bothers me how much resentment there is for the trope, when .. it isn't the trope itself that is bad, it's what exactly is or isn't done with it specifically on an individual case-by-case basis that can be either awful or fantastic. Much like any other trope, including love-triangles and chosen ones, and so on. Buut maybe that's just me.😅 Not Like Other Girls did not begin with the purpose of making it somehow superior to be unlike other girls, it began as an attempt at creating a safe/normalizing/welcoming space for people who didn't necessarily fit in or fit the mold of society or their peers exactly. That wasn't a bad thing. Regardless of whether it ended up taken, also, in some pretty bad directions often enough too or not. It's not as if there ISN'T a stereotype that lots of people have been shamed or harassed or such for not fitting into. Even though people also shouldn't be shamed or harassed for just naturally fitting into it either. If any of that even makes any sense. I dunno . 😁😁 🤷🤷‍♀️🤷🏻‍♂️

[@heatherbocks]

In my experience it is very much an internalized misogyny thing 🤷🏼‍♀️ probably depends what time you were growing up at

[@jaginaiaelectrizs6341]

@@heatherbocks Yeah, because it was misogynistic that there are all these stereotypes about when girls are or aren't even like or not like to begin with. Because misogyny exists, if something involves gals, it's pretty much inevitable that sooner or later misogyny will always end up somehow tied into it sooner or later too. But "not like other girls" did not originate as a way of reinforcing those stereotypes, it began as a way of trying to push back against them-I remember the trope from before it was even an official labeled trope at all, it was just a trend that was beginning to reoccur more and more frequently until eventually being identified and labeled. Unfortunately, everything gets co-opted and twisted into things other than its original intentions eventually. It isn't the trope that is the problem, it's how the trope is or isn't utilized, and different stories/writers may or may not utilize it differently than others do.

[@oliviaallen4767]

I dont know if its a trope, but Ive found that I prefer books where the character has to gain knowledge in overwhelming amounts, like in a school setting or pouring over archaic books where they learn magic or something. Its not necessarily that I like the author to infodump, its more the setting causes them to have to research and master their magic or science

[@caitlyn.m.t9618]

I haven't read any books titled with a trope. Now you have managed to find fairly interesting ones here, but for the most part I see it for romances or romantic comedies which are books I am much more less likely to pick up. And some are for personal grievances for the trope such as... I don't even know if this one but 'she gets the girl'. I know I look too far into the phrase get the girl but I don't like that that phrase because it makes it feel the love interest is more of a prize instead of being written as a romance, and that the love interest feelings doesn't really matter. Typically this is between a guy and a girl that the phrase is used with the girl being the love interest. Making it queer doesn't really change my feelings on it, even though I can recognise that it can mean something different in this case. Aka they actually get together instead of it being queerbait. This is one example but this is typically my response to them.

[@AuntieBooks]

Favorite trope: found family Least favorite trope: reincarnation

[@CatrinaGalloway]

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[@dagimille]

I like getting to know books with these tropes BUT I really NEED an actual blurb too. Only the tropes are just.. meh. :(

[@LynnHermione]

5:11 Animorphs did it better 20 years ago

[@adelect447]

I love enemies to lovers in fantasy but I hate enemies to lovers in contemporary romance cause it just doesn't work there. They're either rivals or they're enemies because of some silly misunderstanding. The amount of times I've read a book and the whole time the main characters were "oh my god, i hate them cause of THAT ONE incident" only to find THE incident was the other person looking at them weird for a moment. Obviously I also hate misunderstanding trope, like girl, just talk to each other 💀

[@jaginaiaelectrizs6341]

Horror, I always thought, meant that something about it would be horrific if it happened to someone in real life.....but it can be delivered, in fiction, in just about any kinda way; from cheesy or humorous to more serious and/or legitimately chilling, all depending. 🤔 Buuuut, I dunno, maybe that's just my own weird misperceptions as someone who has never much gravitated toward nor typically cared much for any horror in general or that I have consumed, except for horror/thriller or psychological horror type stuff specifically.

[@Mostirrelevant]

It is not ruined, but if author titles it with trope, that probably means the content will not be promising either. However, if you are interested in title/topic, do look inside the cover, maybe they changed the title due to other things unrelated to book, and you may even enjoy such title.

[@adavis1585]

I HATE love triangle! Blech 🤢. I like me some fake dating.

[@BeautyBookCorner]

Mouth spread open. 😭

[@karaczka]

„Reading KZbinrs’ favorite horror books” 🤔

[@Kafia_]

Girl on girl hate and not like other girls definitely gotta be some of the lowest for me

[@FirstPrince1992]

My favorite trope is forbidden love. Least favorites are friends to lovers and fake dating.