Six for Sunday (a weekly book prompt from the lovely Steph) is back on the Trope Train. This week we’re doing tropes we hate. Here are six of mine:
1. Instant Love. Nope. I’m not buying it. I rarely find it believable. It’s not for me. Next.
2. Mental Illness is magically cured by falling in love. This is just NOPE. It doesn’t work like that.
3. Boy enters book. Boy saves girl. I’m so over the men rushing in to save the women from things. It is not my jam.
4. Miscommunication. Just. Talk. To. Each. Other. FFS.
5. Justifying crappy behaviour with past trauma. No. Having been through something traumatic does not excuse you being an arse to other people.
6. Mental illness as a plot twist. Just no. Having a mental illness isn’t a plot twist. It really isn’t.
And there’s my 6 top hated tropes. Which tropes would make your list?
Charlotte, Somewhere 
The love cures all trope is arguably my least favourite. It’s so frustrating and dangerous!
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It really is! So dangerous. Especially in YA books where people are still learning about what a good relationship should be.
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Yep to lots here, especially number 2 which makes me so angry and numbers 3 and 6 which aren’t much better.
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Mental illness as a plot twist is a thing?! Don’t blame you for hating it!
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Yeah. I’ve had a few adult books and a YA this year where the plot twist was mental health. It’s not cool
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Oh you’d think somewhere in the process someone might have mentioned it wasn’t a great idea…
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