You may or may not have noticed that I’m fascinated by tropes. For quite a long time, I was convinced that predictability was a bad thing in books. It was unoriginal, it was boring, it was bad storytelling.
Yet I eventually came around. There are so many good things that tropes can bring to the reading experience … though of course there are downsides too.
But I’m getting ahead of myself.
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