Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish and is now run by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week she will post a new Top Ten list . Everyone is welcome to join. This week’s topic is:
Top 10 REWIND: Pick a Previous Topic That You Missed – Favorite Tropes
Horror
1- The Haunted House: I will always pick up a horror book no matter what it’s about. But if it’s about a haunted house, I’m too nosey to see why people think it’s haunted, so I have to pick it up. She is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran is one of the books I immediately picked up because of the haunted house trope!
2- The Final Girl: This trope is about the last girl standing at the end of a horror novel. The only one who survives. I haven’t read very many in YA, but when I find a good one, it lives rent free in my head. Like when we find out who the Final Girl REALLY is in Delicious Monsters by Lieselle Sambury
3- Slasher: All the 90’s movies that cemented horror in my mind as one of my favorite genres. It involves the killer going on a rampage and killing almost everyone they come across. Bonus points if you can find me one that’s a slasher at a summer camp! There’s a reason why I’m addicted to Halloween and Friday the 13th movie franchises! For this one I chose There’s Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins. Was it my favorite? No. Too much of a love story in what was supposed to be a horror book. But it still drives home the example of what this trope is.
Thrillers
04- Social Media: This is risen to the top of my thriller list because of all the podcasts and cold cases and stuff that are solved because of this trope! And it really draws the teens in too. They can all really relate to the social media scene, so having something they can relate to as well as a heart pumping thriller, it makes a world of a difference to a reluctant reader. (And any other reader for that matter because they’re my favorites lol ) The ones that I love the most are podcasts, but I also like those that feature some of the smaller like social media outlets that us normal folk use everyday. I have 2 recs for just this reason lol
05- Locked in and Have to Escape: This has got to be one of my faves. It’s where you’ve been kidnapped or lured some where and have to figure out the secrets or whats happening in order to be let go. Or something happens to you. And just the way it’s always go from like 0-100 all the time, it always makes my heart start flying and I get so into it! Five Survive by Holly Jackson is the best book like this that I’ve read.
06- Blast from the Past: Another of my faves is the cold case murder! Idk what it is about that, but I love them. I love them even more when they’re solved in the present day because of like new developments or someone needs to assuage their guilt. My favorite of this is actually another Holly Jackson book, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder!
07- Stuck Together: This is where a murder occurs when there’s a group of people and they are all in the room, on an island, etc stuck with no where to go and they know one of them is the killer. This is another one that I love. I usually just try to solve it before the main character lol One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus sparked my love for this trope and her writing. And ever since I’ve been addicted to her writing style!
Romance
08- The One Who Doesn’t Believe in Love: This one was easy. I don’t usually go for this trope, but I couldn’t not add my favorite book of last year to this list! I really need everyone to read this if you haven’t already. Ok, thanks,
09- The Cute Meet Cute: The way i love me a good meet cute!!! These are always amazing because of all the things that could happen. It could be a meet cute because of the main character could humiliate themselves, they could also have the one thing that turns them into enemies. I Love You So Mochi by Sarah Kuhn features a main character who meets her love interest when he’s wearing a mochi costume. There is no better meet cute than wearing a food costume lol
10- Forced Proxomity: Could be anything really in YA where they’re forced to be together in some shape or form. In Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert, they’re forced to work as a team to help get themselves the chance to win the grand prize. And the way they acted, you’d think they hated every second of it. But we all know they didn’t!
What about you? What are some of your favorite tropes? Do we have any of the same? Let me know in the comments!
OOh nice topic choices! I like the horror choices most! A few of these are in my TBR pile and I did read Perkins’ book! I looooved that one! The Netflix movie wasn’t even too bad from my spotty memory of both! I of course had already read the book before watching the movie some years later. Lol.
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