I feel the same. Not just the tropes, but also the standard structure with the break up 75% of the way through before the get back together - not my fave. I also find the gender politics in a lot of genre romance fairly alienating. It's a shame, because a good love story is a beautiful thing, but I find most books in the largest genre about love stories very difficult to connect to.
I read a lot of romance novels when I was younger and liked them more, when they had less cultural cachet, but as more and more of publishing is chewed up by romance and more genres have more of that romance novel influence it annoys me more.
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I read a lot of romance novels when I was younger and liked them more, when they had less cultural cachet, but as more and more of publishing is chewed up by romance and more genres have more of that romance novel influence it annoys me more.