What are the characters/scenarios you just cannot resist in a book? Like, you read the blurb and go, “I MUST HAVE THIS IN MY LIFE RIGHT NOW.” Everyone’s got different ones. And I’ve realized some of mine are really specific and weird. I’ve decided to create this list and maybe keep updating it.
I am thinking of also creating a companion list of Stuff I Really Really Don’t Care About In Books and Usually Won’t Read. At the top would be vampires. I just don’t give a shit about them.
- Bluestocking heroines
- Friends to lovers romances
- Nautical settings
- Archaeologists
- Historicals set in Egypt
- Historicals set in India
- Smugglers (either the historical or space variety)
- Pirates (ditto, see above)
- Post-apocalyptic ruins
- Space station settings
- Enemies to lovers romances
- One night stands that turn into something more
- Historicals with a female character who’s not a virgin
- Historicals with a widow who actually had a decent first marriage
- Suffragettes
- Badass heroines who physically fit the role (ie: not too skinny and model-like to pick up a sword)
- Thieves (Somehow I always end up playing a thief in RPGs)
- Beta heroes (like, the guy who is the right hand man to the big alpha guy)
- Heroines with unconventional careers in historicals
- Bars in space (you can see my Star Wars influence in this list…)
- Heroine doesn’t end up with the completely obvious character but with someone else instead (When Tamora Pierce had her main character marry someone else who was not the prince in Lioness Rampant, my sixth grade mind was blown.)
- Interracial romance in a historical (I never see this in a mainstream, print-published historical, and I really wish I would, because it would be all kinds of interesting and awesome. *Except in one of Tessa Dare’s books, there is a secondary romance, but it’s the only one I know of. Besides those cheesy old-school Native American ones I read growing up, and you know, yuck.)
- …. To be added!
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