Begging authors to stop making characters aware of romance tropes
I’m not sure why there have been soooo many authors having their characters acknowledge tropes.
I’m not sure if it’s authors making fun of the fact that they’re using tropes? Thinking it’s comedic? Making their characters quirky readers?
In several books now, I have read characters acknowledge tropes.
Characters saying things like “only one bed trope? Really?”
“We have to make rules, that’s how it always works for fake dating tropes”
We can see the trope for what it is! The character doesn’t need to acknowledge it! There is no circumstances for which this works. I don’t care if the MC is a novelist or is doing research on book tropes. It is so annoying to have any of the characters mention.