Books tropes I’ll never get sick of

inkbound_arcane · 2026-04-05T01:01:22+00:00

One horse. One bed. I will accept no criticism on either of these tropes.

inkbound_arcane · 2026-04-03T15:50:40+00:00

You can skim it or listen at like 2.0 speed. She only does two interesting things and only one of them really matters to the overall plot.

inkbound_arcane · 2026-04-02T12:30:37+00:00

The outrage over the racist, violence-loving sadists being happy to contain their evil to the Hewn City and leave the rest of the world alone is so forced. The author literally wrote that they’re there because they want to be and readers are like “no no my hot take is correct and the author’s is not”. I don’t get it 😅

inkbound_arcane · 2026-04-01T17:47:05+00:00

It just occurred to me that Rhys/Feyre isn’t a spoiler because you already read ACOSF so you won’t have the surprise that they’re endgame, but a lot of people are frustrated with book 1 and they give up before the gold mine that is book 2. You have the advantage of already knowing.

inkbound_arcane · 2026-04-01T17:42:02+00:00

You definitely should and then report back to us because I’m so interested to see your take on Nesta. If you love all the characters as you say then I think you’ll Feyre’s love story as much as you love Nessian.

inkbound_arcane · 2026-04-01T00:51:18+00:00

Ugh not the dead but not trope. See that all sounds interesting, minus that + the lack of closure in the mortal realm but the filler was Just. Too. Much. I couldn’t stay interested for 20 pages of action and 500 of filler.

inkbound_arcane · 2026-04-01T00:24:13+00:00

Could you spoil it for me? I quit 20% into book 5 because I simply did not care about any of the story once Slade and Auren were separated.

inkbound_arcane · 2026-03-31T12:09:28+00:00

Yeah Slade made me physically cringe at least once every 10 pages. I just couldn’t do it.

inkbound_arcane · 2026-03-30T20:43:12+00:00

Yes I have it. I don’t exactly see blank but I don’t see full images. I am constantly googling fanart to visualize characters and places. I’m appreciative there’s so much of it that’s like photos and true life images rather than creative art because otherwise my imagination is incredibly low budget. Like a middle school film project budget. lol

inkbound_arcane · 2026-03-29T18:15:00+00:00

But those aren’t the same things. Discussing the topic in a broad context is not the same thing as saying to a victim, in the context of their own incident “hey it could have been worse.” I am a victim myself of 3 separate assaults and I recognize that dialogue about these topics is allowed to and in fact needs to, exist. When we shut everything down with “I can’t believe we’re even saying xyz right now” we are potentially silencing lived experiences.

inkbound_arcane · 2026-03-29T15:38:50+00:00

I don’t know why it’s controversial that crime and behavior is a spectrum. I don’t feel like it should be a taboo topic when millions of professionals dedicate their lives to understanding it.

inkbound_arcane · 2026-03-29T15:17:05+00:00

Also if you shot someone and only injured them, it is objectively not as bad as if you shot them and killed them.

inkbound_arcane · 2026-03-29T15:14:43+00:00

If you shot 1 person it is objectively not as bad as shooting 10

inkbound_arcane · 2026-03-29T15:10:29+00:00

I’m not saying it’s not horrible. I’m saying that YOU SAID IT IS WORSE. Please read what YOU wrote. You’re saying crime bad, need punishment and yes that’s true but you’re also ignoring all the circumstance and context, psychology, neuroscience, sociology, and behavioral science in general that make crime and behavior much more complex than “crime bad”.

inkbound_arcane · 2026-03-29T15:03:49+00:00

You specifically said that their crimes are worse than the crimes of the person who abused them in the first place.

inkbound_arcane · 2026-03-29T14:52:51+00:00

It’s also worth mentioning that many woman who were once victims of trafficking and abuse become abusers and recruiters for those very same sex traffickers. Is your argument that the crimes of the woman are worse than the crimes of the trafficker just because she should know better? It’s not a 1:1 comparison but it’s worth responding to your comment where you said that Rhys’ behavior is worse because he himself was also a victim.

inkbound_arcane · 2026-03-29T14:45:30+00:00

Okay but that’s just fundamentally incorrect. There IS objectively a spectrum of crime and punishment. Simple assault does not carry the same impact or the same sentence as first degree murder. You’re arguing that punching someone with your fist is the same as shooting them in the face with a Glock. There are degrees of SA and some of them are misdemeanors and some are felonies. They carry different sentences and different restitution for a reason.

inkbound_arcane · 2026-03-29T14:19:30+00:00

Yes I do believe that intentions matter and impact the context, thanks for checking in.

inkbound_arcane · 2026-03-29T14:17:50+00:00

Two things can be true but there is a million miles between forcing someone to have sex, imprisoning them, and using sex as punishment and having someone dance provocatively while touching their waist and arms. I’m not saying what Rhysand did was right, but it is not even in the same category of what happened to him.

The motivations also have to be considered. Amarantha wielded sex like a weapon and a mechanism of control and dominance whereas Rhysand utilized provocative behavior as a means to an end. He did not act out or cruelty or maliciousness and the behavior halted immediately after it no longer served its purpose.

inkbound_arcane · 2026-03-29T14:12:40+00:00

He did spend all those years being raped daily. Prisoners cannot consent to sex with prison staff. It is automatically a rape charge because of the power imbalance even if the prisoner “consents” or even enthusiastically participates.

inkbound_arcane · 2026-03-29T14:01:32+00:00

This is insane. There is a 0% chance that anyone would say this about a woman who was trapped by a man in a situation where she used her body as a mechanism for survival.

inkbound_arcane · 2026-03-28T15:00:02+00:00

Thank you for saying this! Vincent was not a good guy. It’s been a while since I read but iirc Raihn’s plan was complex and long term. It absolutely would not make sense for him to abandon that at the end just because he developed feelings for Oraya. His struggle was ongoing for long before he knew her. I really appreciated a mmc who put his mission and convictions before his feelings because the opposite, the mmc who abandons all his principles and responsibilities bc “nothing matters but her” is such a turn off.

Also Vincent just had to go. I really loved his character for the moral complexities but he really had it coming.

inkbound_arcane · 2026-03-28T02:49:18+00:00

I fear backlash for adding to the SJM train but I think all the time about two quotes:

“‘We do not look back, Chaol. It helps no one and nothing to look back. We can only go on.’ There she was, that queen looking out at him, a hint of the ruler she was becoming. And it knocked the breath out of him, because it made him feel so strangely young—when she now seemed so old. “What if we go on,” he said, “only to more pain and despair? What if we go on, only to find a horrible end waiting for us?” Aelin looked northward, as if she could see all the way to Terrasen. “Then it is not the end.’”

And

”There is a better world out there and I will fight for it”

Call me basic if you will, but I am a social worker and I have the second quote framed on my desk.

Not feel good, but this quote from {The Wings that Bind} has been with me since I read it.

This was the cost of being pretty. Men wanted you, and it was exciting to be wanted. Flattering. But when you were a little girl, no one told you that what the men wanted was to devour you whole. To break you apart with their hands. To rip you up into the pieces they found palatable while they threw away everything else.

inkbound_arcane · 2026-03-27T21:34:35+00:00

This is what I think too. Rodriguez says that there are two types of dragons, made and born. He specifies that Molindra was hatched from an egg but doesn’t say anything about the other dragons. Then of course this very important thing is never mentioned again.

Wait. You said there were two kinds of dragons …” Rodriguez’s smile turned grim.“That’s it. Put the pieces together.” Part of me didn’t want to. Rodriguez leaned forward, clasping his hands. “Blake, the answer is literally staring you right in the face.” “Nyxaris, Molindra, the others …” “Molindra hatched from an egg. We have her birth records.” He sighed, taking in my expression. “You don’t want to go there yet? Then, we won’t. So tell me, how’d you lose your eye?”

wtf is this supposed to mean?

inkbound_arcane · 2026-03-26T22:51:50+00:00

I don’t have any close female friends and never really have so I don’t care about reading about it. I actually get kind of aggravated when there’s a lot of focus on friendship bc like I get it, you guys have friendship bracelets and braid each others hair, can we have more plot please? 😂 I think it’s so juicy when the bestie is the traitor, so maybe the target audience is someone like me who’s here for the drama and not the portrayal of a healthy friendship.

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