Do you look for tropes?

I'm not sure that I look for tropes when selecting a new book. However, some will suck me in (fighting for a cause), and others will annoy me (surprise baby). What about you?

Tropes tend to be unique retellings of similar situations in novels. I list mine for my ARC readers so they can decide if it's a story they'd be interested in.

While the setting remains the same- 1850s California small town and San Francisco- each novel connects the characters and has a stand-alone storyline.

Tropes

To Sign Her Own Name (Book 1):

• Romance plus women's rights fight

• Fish out of water

• Hidden identity

• Found family

• Forbidden

• Grumpy friends to lovers.

The Love Debts (Book 2):

• Romance plus women's rights fight

• Mystery illness

• Secret career

• Found family

• Forbidden subplot

• Opposites attract & Friends to lovers

Leo's Game (Book 3):

• Romance plus women's rights fight

• Mystery villain

• He falls first

• Forced proximity

• She's already engaged

• Protector

• Family secret subplot

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