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Book: For romance genre, I love Lara & Aren in the Bridge Kingdom. More generally, I love Scarlett and Rhett in Gone with the wind & Meggie and Ralph in the Thorn bird. Both of these didn't have the perfect HEA but their love stories were epic. Movie: when Harry met Sally TV: the main couple in a classic Korean series called Coffee Prince!
I have quite a few throughout my years of watching TV shows, but my overall favourite would have to be Naomi and Emily from Skins, season 3 - 7. They're undeniably one of the greatest relationship stories coming out of Skins.
Under You by ER Gurney. The directing is good.. the plot moves really quickly, which I like (opposite of Dare to Dream). However, this story is real... sexy, so if you are not into that give it a pass. 3. Lifelike by Cindy Gaultier. *The story is like Choices' "Perfect Match" in that it is about robots.
Feb 11, 2021 · Here are nine of those ingredients, as gleaned from the pages of the Book Review. Tell us: What makes for a great love story? 1. Heroes (or Antiheroes) ‘He was my North, my South, my East and...
- The Meet-Cute
- The Love Triangle
- Enemies Become Lovers
- The Fake Relationship
- Trapped in An Elevator
- Escape from The Friend Zone
- Belated Love Epiphany
- Destined to Be Together
- Second Chance Romance
- Forbidden Love
A classic of romantic comedies, ‘meet-cutes’ are scenes where our lovers first encounter each other — often in hilarious, adorable, or serendipitous ways. Examples of classic meet-cutes include Hugh Grant impressing Hollywood star Julia Roberts while confronting a book thief in Notting Hill (then spilling orange juice over her); or stand-up Kumail ...
Charlie and Jim love Diane. Or maybe Diane loves Jim, and Jim loves Charlie, and Charlie loves Diane. Either way, our protagonist is going to have to choose between two people they care about — and somebody’s going to get their heart broken. For a well-known love triangle, you might look to Arthurian legend, where Guinevere is torn between her husb...
Anyone can put together a storyabout “love at first sight” — let’s talk about its juicer cousin: “hate at first sight.” This trope (also known as "hate to love") is when two characters start out despising one another but eventually fall in love. The characters will likely try to deny their feelings until it’s no longer possible. An example of this ...
Two people find themselves in a situation where they must pretend to be in love. But, of course, make-believe finds a way to become more real than either of them had expected, and they fall in love for real. Typically, once their “arrangement” ends, they will part ways, thinking there is no hope for a real relationship to blossom. That is until one...
This trope has several popular variations: the “have to spend a night in a cabin,” the “stuck in a car in a blizzard,” the “overnight office romance,” etc. The point is two people, who likely barely know each other (or aren’t very fond of one another), are forced together in a relatively enclosed space. They have to rely one on another to get throu...
The "friends to lovers" trope is when two friends realize their feelings for each other and start a romantic relationship. Maybe they were childhood friends who went through the trials and tribulations of adolescence together. Fast forward to their adult lives: they haven’t spoken in decades, but think of one another often. Brought back together fo...
As Joni Mitchell tells us,“don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got 'til it’s gone?”That’s the idea behind the popular “belated love epiphany” trope: the protagonist loses (or is at risk of losing) someone they overlooked. And only in their absence does the protagonist begin to realize what the other character meant to them. ...
While many of these romance tropes involve two people slowly realizing their feelings for one another, the “destined to be together” trope involves couples who know right from the start that they are in love. Their intense, immediate bond is what maintains their resolve that they’re meant to be together while the universe, typically, conspires to s...
The second-chance romance trope can play out in a few ways. Perhaps a couple breaks up only to reunite decades later. Maybe they have been deeply hurt in the past, and have spent years avoiding any kind of romantic relationship. Now they will meet and learn to give love another chance. Readers enjoy this hopeful trope, which reminds us that “it’s n...
Forbidden fruit always tastes the sweetest, right? This romance trope involves two people who are desperately in love but are forced apart by their families, culture, or geographical distance. Whatever the case, something is preventing them from being together. Note that unrequited love and forbidden love are not the same — "unrequited" love means ...
Feb 16, 2021 · Here's a list of 50 of the best love story books I've come across in my many years of reading, including romance, fantasy, YA, and more.
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In this round-up of literary love stories, constraints are explored in all their forms: from lovers crossing the spidery cracks of class differences in Georgian England to those stepping across...
