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Elfundertheshelf

"I am 27 years old, I have no money, no prospects. I am already a burden to my parents, and, I am FRIGHTENED." ^ One of the above is false info xD

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  • Let's see what the favourite trope is!

    List your favourite trope.

    If your trope is more niche, feel free to define it so others can know more about it! Can be common or niche tropes!

    Beneath it, put your favourite book recommendations for that trope!

    Let's see what tropes are the most popular on this platform!!!

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  • Genre mislabels : Romantasy (I use romantasy as a placeholder for my question and it applies to other genres too I think)

    I have come across official Romantasy books lately that I think are more fantasy with a romance sub-plot as opposed to romantasy genre where the romance is the main-plot. I have this question - I don't mean to create dust and anger but wish to understand better: Do you think that newer fantasy books get mislabeled as romantasy and so are not picked up by readers because of the association with book-tok? And the ones who do pick them up end up writing bad reviews because they got disappointed? From what I have seen, a lot of epic fantasy does have romantic subplots and they are important to the story. But when it gets tagged as romantasy it affects the readership in this negative way of the expectations shifting and then not being met correctly. I would be happy to provide a few examples if you want or need some visualization of what I mean. And I am curious to hear if you know of some officially tagged Romantasy Book that you think are wrongly sorted into that genre and if you know of some books tagged as Fantasy only that should be in the Romantasy genre and why you think this might be happening if it is. 😊

    PS :I am using romantasy as an obvious example and this might happen to other genres as well. Please do include your theories and observations about those as well.

    EDIT Also feel free to leave in your recommendations for or againt this own here (hehe might bulk up my tbr as well)

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  • Genre mislabels : Romantasy (I use romantasy as a placeholder for my question and it applies to other genres too I think)

    I have come across official Romantasy books lately that I think are more fantasy with a romance sub-plot as opposed to romantasy genre where the romance is the main-plot. I have this question - I don't mean to create dust and anger but wish to understand better: Do you think that newer fantasy books get mislabeled as romantasy and so are not picked up by readers because of the association with book-tok? And the ones who do pick them up end up writing bad reviews because they got disappointed? From what I have seen, a lot of epic fantasy does have romantic subplots and they are important to the story. But when it gets tagged as romantasy it affects the readership in this negative way of the expectations shifting and then not being met correctly. I would be happy to provide a few examples if you want or need some visualization of what I mean. And I am curious to hear if you know of some officially tagged Romantasy Book that you think are wrongly sorted into that genre and if you know of some books tagged as Fantasy only that should be in the Romantasy genre and why you think this might be happening if it is. 😊

    PS :I am using romantasy as an obvious example and this might happen to other genres as well. Please do include your theories and observations about those as well.

    EDIT Also feel free to leave in your recommendations for or againt this own here (hehe might bulk up my tbr as well)

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  • Future classics

    I love reading classic novels and as I was reading jane eyre today, it got me thinking, what books would you consider to be modern classics or what books do you think will become classics in the future?

    I’m really interested in seeing what everyone thinks ☺️

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    Lights Out

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  • The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
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    I really like that in a world full of strange things and changed people Anna is still seen as crazy, as too much, too weird. Too Strange even or maybe especially for them.

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  • Types of Reviews

    So I've been reading through the reviews written by people I follow (love being able to filter the feed on profiles!) because I'm nosy and looking for recs - and to help me learn to write better reviews.

    It got me thinking about what type of reviews I like to read and are helpful to me, and I just know that everyone has different 'requirements' for what makes a review good for them. It's making it really fun to look through them, knowing that what doesn't quite work for me will work for someone else.

    For example, I prefer an almost negative amount of 'spoilers' (this is probably just my disinterest in hearing/reading premise recaps - if I wanted to read the blurb I would have, and I generally don't), an overview of the vibe (including tone, setting/time, genre/sub-genre), and a couple of reasons why the book worked (or didn't work) for the reader.

    What about you? What do you prefer to see, and write, in reviews?

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  • The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
    Ana & Din - Thoughts from 52% (page 211)
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