Know Your Obsession
The complete Shamelessly Obsessive field guide to romance tropes. Every one we catalog, what it actually is, and the very specific feeling it exists to deliver.
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You did not come here because you sometimes enjoy a love story.
You came here because you know the difference between a good book and the right book, and the right book is almost always a matter of trope. It is the reason you can adore one enemies-to-lovers and shrug at another. It is the fastest route from what should I read to why is it three in the morning.
So we wrote the whole map down.
What is inside
- Every trope we catalog, sorted into the moods they belong to
- What each one actually is, in plain language, with no academic hedging
- The ache it scratches: the specific feeling each trope exists to deliver
- The icons, the yearning department, the close quarters, the dark side and the way back, fate and hidden truths, and love arriving with company
It is the guide we wanted when we were trying to explain to a friend exactly why we needed a book where there was only one bed.
Who it is for
Readers who want to stop scrolling and start finding. Readers who have ever typed a trope into a search bar and been disappointed by what came back. Readers who would like a vocabulary for the thing they already know they want.
Also, quietly, authors. Knowing precisely what a trope promises is how you tag a book so the right reader finds it.
What else you get
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Fair warning: once you can name the thing you are in the mood for, you will find it every single time. Your to-be-read pile has no defense against this.
Obsessively yours,
