Hello Book Friends! Join Danielle, Leah, and Sam as they rate romance tropes, talk about romance and fantasy tropes, and give a lot of book recommendations.

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(00:00) Intro/List of Fantasy Tropes

(02:20) Ranking Romance Tropes

(11:33) Normal Romance

(21:22) Dark Romance

(29:01) Fantasy

(44:41) Monster Smut

(48:27) Closing Remarks/Outro

Books mentioned

Normal Romances

The Pumpkin Spice Cafe by Laurie Gilmore

Resting Scrooge Face by Megan Quinn

Big Nick Energy by Morgan Elizabeth

The Christmas Fix by Lucy Score

Raw and Real Love by Georgia Price

Hook, Line, and Sinker by Tessa Bailey

The Summer I Turned Pretty By Jenny Han

Purple Hearts by Tess Wakefield

Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

Save Me by Ali Marie

Verity by Colleen Hoover

The Love Wager by Lynn Painter

It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover

It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover

People we meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

Icebreaker By Hannah Grace

Birthday Girl by Penelope Douglas

Dark Romances

A Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. Clair

Hooked by Emily McIntire

Scream for Us by Molly Doyle

Melt for Us by Molly Doyle

Butcher and Blackbird by Brynne Weaver

Bloodshed by Molly Doyle

Haunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton

Hunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton

Priest by Sierra Simone

Game of Fate by Scarlett St. Clair

Twisted by Emily McIntire

Fantasy

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

Zodiac Academy by Suzanne Valentini and Caroline Peckham

Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

The Sucken City by Emma Noice

Lightlark by Alex Aster

Signs of Cupidity by Raven Kennedy

ACTOAR by Sarah J. Maas

A Fate So Wicked by K.E. Austin

The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent

The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic by Breanne Randall

Gild by Raven Kennedy

Petty Cupid by Sarah Blue

One Dark Window by Rachael Gillig

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

The Coven by Harper L. Woods

Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

Powerless by Lauren Roberts

Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

Lost Boy by Christina Henry

Assassin’s Blade by Sarah J. Maas

Monster Smut

A Very Krampus Holiday by Katee Robert

Frisky the Snowman by Lauren Biel

The Incubus by Marilyn Harper