#S4S: Overdone Tropes

Posted on July 19, 2020July 15, 2020 by Chiara

Hi all my Bookworms.

My name is Chiara and I am a Bookworm.

How are you all?

Another Sunday, another week been and gone.

How was your week?

Sunday, I hope you know means that we are doing Six For Sunday, or #S4S for short. #S4S is a weekly book meme created in June 2017 by Steph over at A Little But A Lot, and each week there is a different topic. I really encourage you to check out their site.

This month’s topics are:

5th June: Tropes You Love

12th June: Tropes You Hate

19th June: Overdone Tropes (<– this week)

26th June: Tropes You Want to See More of

Some of these have appeared elsewhere in this month on wither tropes that I love or tropes that I hate, but I don’t think that tropes that are overdone have to be ones that I hate, so there are a mixture of both.

Love Triangle
Insta-love
Enemies-to-lovers
Falling in love with the boss
The chosen one
Damsel in Distress

What tropes do you think are overdone? Let me know in the comments.

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5 thoughts on “#S4S: Overdone Tropes”

EmilyJane1995 July 19, 202011:27 am Reply

The boss one always frustrates me, sometimes followed by one of them giving up what they claim is their dream job so they can be together🥱

Great post BTW!

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1. Chiara July 19, 202011:35 am Reply
  
  Thanks!
  I usually find it’s the woman who gives up for the man as well. That really enjoys me.
  
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J Z. Smith July 19, 20201:56 pm Reply

I am not bothered so much by the trope as I am by how it is executed. Enemies to Lovers is overdone, but I just read three books that were fantastically written and fresh. Ghosting: a love story, The Trouble with Hating You, and The Marriage Game. All the same trope, all done differently. Now the damsel in distress is problematic because of its inherent misogyny….

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1. Chiara July 19, 20202:23 pm Reply
  
  I completely agree with you there. I just read 10 Things I Hat about Pinky by Sandhya Menon and it’s an enemies to lovers book, but I loved it.
  
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indiefan20 July 23, 20203:08 am Reply

I don’t care for any of these tropes, even though I think ‘damsels in distress’ have become less common. I actually think things have gone a little too far in the other direction now, with forced ‘girl power’ narratives where the heroine proving she doesn’t need a man and is ‘not like other girls’ overpowers the character development. I love strong female characters but I don’t like when they feel forced. I also don’t care for romances so I generally avoid most of the irritating tropes you mentioned.

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