[ SECRET POST #5116 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5116 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Which romances are you referring to? Examples of specific titles, please.

[(Anonymous)]

SA

I also strongly disagree that going against the trope is inherently "not significant character work."

[meadowphoenix]

why? if the only thing that is changed in a trope is one thing, but everything else remains the same, including plot, and relationships dynamics, what is significant about it?

[meadowphoenix]

also you never answered this so?

[meadowphoenix]

romance in general. pick a harlequin

[(Anonymous)]

So you can't actually give any specific examples of books you've actually read. That's what I thought.

[meadowphoenix]

no it's just a stupid question to ask about a specific book when I'm talking about a genre's understanding of tropes. but I gave you a better answer than you deserved, since I am telling you that even without reading it a harlequin will fulfill this purpose. so pick one. if you want relevant specificity, pick anyone with a billionaire lmao.

[(Anonymous)]

I brought this up because I don't think you're very well-read in the genre. I think you're repeating overgeneralizing criticism that you read from someone else, with no original thought of your own. If you weren't just repeating someone else's work, you would be able to name a few titles of specific books that supported your argument.

Have you actually read any specific Harlequins romance book published in the last decade? Or any indie-published billionaire romance book? It's a yes or no question. If you can't name a single title, I'm going to assume the answer is no.

It matters because criticism is only valuable if it's coming out of real knowledge of the subject.

[meadowphoenix]

If you weren't just repeating someone else's work, you would be able to name a few titles of specific books that supported your argument.
And if you were able to counter my argument with any heft, you'd be able to pick a recent book or author or series that countered it, yes? If you weren't just arguing out of your ass? You could pick a harlequin billionaire book and say "see the food in this is quite quixotic" as easily as I presumably could say, "see the food descriptions do nothing" and yet you haven't? are you unaware of the genre? and if you are, and I don't understand why I should believe you aren't anymore than you believe me, why should I care what you're asking of me more than you're willing do what I'm asking of you? [But I will say that I don't think picking sonali dev would count as much of her novels are about either restaurant romances or cooking show romances, not that they aren't tropey including the arc of food incidences]

for record, all my reads are recent (and less recent), because I tend to read authors in chunks.