This will probably be the first blog I post in the new year, so let’s get 2021 started on the right foot! With books, obviously!
But, in order to start the year the right way, I gotta tell you that Serendipity (edited by Marissa Meyer) is billed as “Ten Romantic Tropes Transformed” and that is a big, fat lie. It’s a whole bunch of tropes in short story form from a variety of YA authors, but there’s nothing really transformational about any of them.
I mean, the most unique thing in here in my opinion was the one bed in the inn trope but with teenagers. The book also features favorites like enemies to lovers and fake dating, but with a teenage spin… or ya know… the same things we see in YA romance books too.
It’s not that they are bad or anything negative. Some of them are quite cute. I just expected more based on the subtitle. Once I got past, ‘these are not actually transformed’, it was fine. Ten simple stories that you could easily break up into reading one a day and feel like you got something done.
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