These Romance Tropes Make Us SWEAT

Speaker 1 Are you all still recording? Guys, we just we just literally ruined the plot of Aguatar for one of our

Speaker 1 our producers ladies back there.

Speaker 1 Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 She just read the first one on the plane.

Speaker 1 Oh, we are the worst.

Speaker 1 We are the worst. You probably would have figured that out, but dang.
Can I say? Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 I knew immediately what was happening. We're horrible people.
Oh, that's tough.

Speaker 1 Welcome back to House of Mar, a wave original presented by the new Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra. Slip into your comfies, grab a cup of coffee.
The Wi-Fi password is only one bed, all uppercase. I'm Alona.

Speaker 1 And I'm your other host, Olivia. And I'm the last host, Audreyana.
Thanks for joining us back here on our couch.

Speaker 1 We've spent hours on end together in libraries, bookstores, reading together, together in our living room. On, you know, we just, we're big readers.
We like being together.

Speaker 1 So thanks for coming back to our house to hang out with us a little bit more and see whatever we get into this time.

Speaker 1 And you may notice, if you're watching this on YouTube, if you're not, we'll describe it in depth for you like ASMR.

Speaker 1 We've switched around the room. We're trying it out a little bit.
We've put the couch in a different place. And to be honest, this is because I believe my good side is the right side of my face.

Speaker 1 And you're allowed to believe that. And I think I look better that way.
So I made them switch it for a little bit. Women supporting women,

Speaker 1 invert the set, we'll invert a room for your good side. Thank you so much.
I appreciate that. We might, we're gonna switch it back again.
We're just trying some things out.

Speaker 1 And it's funny because we were like, no, you look beautiful. And she's like, which one? We know we're beautiful on all sides.
You know that.

Speaker 1 We're beautiful on all sides, but you can have a favorite side for sure. And we're like, no, you look great.
She's like, I don't think so.

Speaker 1 I look fine, but I just, I think there is something about it that, you know, we all have it. Like, I like the way my hair parts.
Right. Inside of my hair parts on makes me feel pretty.

Speaker 1 She's beautiful gorgeous she's also been killing her makeup game oh my god disguise do you see how pretty she looks she can't she literally can't keep getting away with this i did this myself which is incredible this is a full face of concealer too also a drama

Speaker 1 i totally it's all concealer it's all concealer that i use as on age girl i fully thought you had a makeup artist no dancing with a stars day i was like that it was the blending and just the coverage i was like i don't think alone she's contouring too i'm trying to contour i bought i don't know who you are anymore No, when she's doing her brows, because she's on the side, not behind your back.

Speaker 1 She was like, Alona needs to work on her brows. She's kicked out.
I told her. Oh, you did? Yeah.
I told you to brush out your brows. Yeah, she told me to brush out my brows.

Speaker 1 But I went and bought another brow stick because I stole yours. But my brows are lighter than yours.
Yeah. So I had.
Where's that stick? I'd love that pack.

Speaker 1 I don't know, girl.

Speaker 1 I've got another one. It's been used and

Speaker 1 used and abused. Used and abused.
One thing also, we've been getting comments that we sound so alike. Yes, I am.
Or you two sound alike.

Speaker 1 sound alike. Okay, everyone who's listening, guess who's talking in 3-2-1?

Speaker 1 Hey, y'all. Okay.
That doesn't even sound like you.

Speaker 1 Not even when she talks. That's Olivia.
I think you guys got to start saying, like, a walkie-talkie. Like, Olivia, out.

Speaker 1 This is Alona speaking.

Speaker 1 Out. Copy.
Out. Out.

Speaker 1 Could you imagine? We'll try to do better, but we've been told all our lives that we do sound very similar. Like, we laugh alike.
We have the same laughs.

Speaker 1 Sometimes we're on the phone and like nobody can get it right so or when our laughs sync up and like the ha ha ha

Speaker 1 like harmonizing but with a laugh we've done that a lot or like answering remember answering the home phone and like an elderly dutch aunt would be like oh minika and start ripping away in dutch and i'd be like i'll stop you right there she's down the hall everyone let's answer the phone how we had to okay this is how our parents taught us to answer the home telephone growing up it's called the landline team ready ring ring ring ring

Speaker 1 residents how may I help you? That's how we'd have to answer every

Speaker 1 friends and I'm like, how may I help you? They're like, alone?

Speaker 1 Which it does work if like

Speaker 1 spam callers are calling you. They think they're calling a residential address, but it's actually like...
You get the Mar House business. You get like a business tone behind it.
Family business.

Speaker 1 Reach the front desk, even though we say Mar Residence. How may I help you? I don't know.
Has that worked for you? I can't believe you have no decorum. and say, can I help you?

Speaker 1 Maybe it was just the pressure of having to do it on camera. Please, probably.
We've practiced a lot, though. Our voices sound similar.

Speaker 1 We've also, I think people have been picking up, if you're watching, that we all look alike in certain ways. Like we all have the same features of one another.

Speaker 1 Yep, I've gotten a comment that I look like both Ilona and Adriana in a different way, but that they don't look like each other. And I've gotten that Ilona looks like Olivia and I, but

Speaker 1 we don't look alike, which I always get that we look like. Someone asked recently, I've been getting a lot.
Are you guys twins? I just got that again yesterday.

Speaker 1 I was like, do I look five years older than i am or does she look five years younger because right it just

Speaker 1 kind of feels like a slap in the face if it's tell us in the comments who's the prettiest tell us greatest

Speaker 1 who's the prettiest i'm just kidding no more complimenting her makeup

Speaker 1 but i will say you guys have similar i think i have different face structure than the both of you we have very similar um eyebrows and eye setups have you noticed that oh i see

Speaker 1 yeah i guess structure wise i think eyes she just judged the hell out of my eyebrows. Did you guys see that? You got great eyebrows.
You saw you got great eyebrows.

Speaker 1 You guys were just clocked and forwarded. John's been working on eyebrow game.

Speaker 1 Eyebrows, really?

Speaker 1 No, I love my eyebrows.

Speaker 1 Those distant cousins?

Speaker 1 No, I had an iPod touch back in the day in middle school, and Olivia took a selfie on it one time, a little peace sign, threw it up as my home screen, and it was my home screen for like a year.

Speaker 1 And then a year later, I found out that my best friend thought it was a selfie of myself the entire time. Oh, no.

Speaker 1 To which I was like, why didn't you call me out if you thought I made my home screen a selfie of me? Can I actually talk about that? People that have photos of themselves as their home screen.

Speaker 1 Can we go a little bit deeper there? Please. Sure.
What are your thoughts? I think it's a little weird. Really?

Speaker 1 It's almost like walking into Alona's bedroom and seeing all the fan art of her covering her walls.

Speaker 1 It's weird for you guys. Sorry, I love myself.

Speaker 1 That's what I'm thinking. It's like, sorry.

Speaker 1 You got to love you at the end of the day.

Speaker 1 And if it's a picture of you on your home screen that's doing it, like, okay, good on you.

Speaker 1 Maybe it's like looking in a mirror and, like, what do they call it when you're like talking and giving yourself like pep talk? It's like an affirmation seeing yourself.

Speaker 1 Like at your, maybe you're hottest and you're like, that's me. I like it.
I like it. One time, or actually a couple times, I've been able to open your phone with my face.
That's been freaky.

Speaker 1 That's been real freaky. That makes me

Speaker 1 back to her makeup. I can't do it.
Back to her makeup. Her phone didn't recognize her this morning.
That was weird. I couldn't pay for something.
My phone wouldn't.

Speaker 1 I was like, am I too pretty right now?

Speaker 1 Is my phone not seeing? I tried it. I had to use my passcode.
That was weird. Just both of

Speaker 1 you never seen it. It was contour.
Forever. Nice try.

Speaker 1 Nice. Try, you feet.

Speaker 1 Who's this, Olivia?

Speaker 1 Get her out of here. Olivia has a beautiful nose.
Johnny, you also have a beautiful nose. I've just always noticed Olivia has a very little petite nose.
Thank you so much. And your ears?

Speaker 1 I have teeny, tiny ears. Go ahead and get a close up.

Speaker 1 Can we zoom in on the ears? I think you can wiggle them too. I can wiggle them.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 1 I have massive earlobe things. I I am single.
So can we zoom in here? Can we get it? Let me see. Zoom in on my earlobe.
Oh, she's got, she's got

Speaker 1 one of those really detached, loopy things. Yeah.
Adriana. I don't know if I've ever looked at my ears like that.
Quite narrow ones. As if someone held them too close to your head for a sec.

Speaker 1 Yeah, like on your track.

Speaker 1 No, exactly.

Speaker 1 Starting that rumor.

Speaker 1 What else would we say is similar that we all share? Alone and I, we have kind of similar eyes. Yours are a little brighter, though.

Speaker 1 Color, eye color. Yeah,

Speaker 1 I color with a similar. She is brown.
We get it.

Speaker 1 They're kind of cool. Cool.
Alona's got gorgeous, glorious lips. And that's why she gets lipstick deals.
And locks. Locks.
And amazing hair. Although you always get the thin hair, like,

Speaker 1 not compliments, kind of backhand and be like, your hair is so thin and fine.

Speaker 1 Alona's is so thick and luscious. She's so great.
Get her in a shampoo commercial. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And then we get, oh, you have your grandmother's hair.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 1 Thinny hair. And that's not a compliment, but it's just different genetics do you ever worry about balding okay

Speaker 1 i do

Speaker 1 i think it gets coming for me one day i think i think my hair when i get old i think my hair is gonna be even fine

Speaker 1 we're knocking on wood if you're listening if you're if you're only listening i found my first white hair you good dude i because sometimes i have like blonder hairs and i was like is it blonde and then i plucked plucked it of course and i was like looking at it and i put it up against like a black bag and it definitely started a little like blonder up here and then made distinct

Speaker 1 change to white. 26 changes, you man, you're about to turn 25.
So well, you're

Speaker 1 almost 26. Almost 26, yeah.
I've got one white hair that's hanging on right here, but I kind of love her. You got about five, actually.
What? You've, you've counted? You've got a few up there.

Speaker 1 That is so messed up, Adrona. She's pretty much 40

Speaker 1 today. Okay.
That's the thing. Our dad, when I was like 27, he was like, oh, Olivia, the oldest.
She's about 30. I was like, oh.

Speaker 1 whoa, that's a math hate. Math wouldn't that wouldn't hurt.
Um, like, but I guess I've just always meant to be this age. That's it.
Well, let's get into it. Let's get into last night.

Speaker 1 Let's touch some grass and talk about real life.

Speaker 1 Coming up on today's episode of House of Mar, we're talking Hong Kong, our girl dinner pajama party, and doing a huge ranking of our all-time favorite romance tropes.

Speaker 1 We're also spoiling the Akatar books for our production team, but not for you, fear not. Not for you, so stay tuned.
We hosted a girl dinner party with Paula's Choice and Instagram Meta.

Speaker 1 And we invited a bunch of fabulous women from LA and just had a womanhood, girlhood evening. Yeah.
Fabulous.

Speaker 1 It was great. But we all wore fancy silky PJs and feathers and long sleeves.
Alona looked incredible.

Speaker 1 You slaves.

Speaker 1 Insert a photo here. Stop it.
Insert photo. You're in this little like dress number with a robe that was like white, silky, flower detail.
Detail.

Speaker 1 I got out of my Uber and some guy came to like, you know, know help me out and i was like please sir look away please virtue

Speaker 1 my my little lady parks there i'll draw recently her jeans her zipper jeans broke busted open i had two pairs of jeans break within a week yeah she's down that's what he's saying she took them

Speaker 1 on them jeans they gotta put in work but she had this little purse so she carried it like this in front of her broken zipper the stadium in Hong Kong, which we'll get to.

Speaker 1 First, I had to take off my cardigan, wrapped it around, but then we were walking to the taxi. It was so cold.

Speaker 1 So I just put my cardigan back on and I held my purse in front of my crutch the entire walk. And then Olivia and I were at a restaurant and I was like, why am I feeling the seat so much?

Speaker 1 Why is there so much skin to skin? A rip right on the bike. It was huge.
Did you not feel it when you sat down? I think it grew when I sat down.

Speaker 1 Like I think, you know, like just like the way my body moved, like ripped it open. Literally busting out of them jeans.
Literally. The tight.
What is that? Oh my gosh. Dude.

Speaker 1 The aftershock. That could be me.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 That is me.

Speaker 1 What? Oh, yes. You got a stop, dude.

Speaker 1 You've been filling out some pants too recently. No, I've been catching

Speaker 1 catching my reflection sometimes. 100%.

Speaker 1 She walks by your store window and she's like, wait a second. It's like, why am I so kicked out? Are y'all seeing this? What the hell? Maybe it's because you haven't been doing your Pilates.

Speaker 1 You're just or my walks. I've been doing big walks.
Isn't that a thing you can walk your ass off?

Speaker 1 I think I've heard that they're tired. I think it's personally to like literally do it.

Speaker 1 But the girl dinner event was super fun.

Speaker 1 Sorry about that, guys.

Speaker 1 We had tons of dirty martinis. Delicious, I will say.
Yep. And at my one request,

Speaker 1 they were so, Paula's Choice and Meta were so fantastic to work with and organize this. And like, they consulted me on the menu and what should be served.

Speaker 1 My big thing was like, I'm loving everything, but where the pickles at? I need way more pickles involved in this day. Can you cure? You curated pretty much the girl girl dinner meal.

Speaker 1 What did you go for? So we were, it was at the West Hollywood edition. So like they also did the food.
And so we went with classically, you know, Caesar salad kind of french fries vibes.

Speaker 1 So there were little things of french fries around. You could do a Caesar salad.
There was also various dips and crudeté because that feels very girl dinner. There's also little sliders.

Speaker 1 Got to get some protein in there. Those were good, too.
Those were yummy. They were real yummy.

Speaker 1 Which sometimes I'm, I get suspicious of food that's being like passed around or maybe sitting a little bit longer because it's naturally going to get cold if people aren't touching it, but it was still good.

Speaker 1 I had that burger probably four hours after it was made. And delicious.
And it was still pretty delicious. And there's little grilled cheeses with those tomato soups? The tomato soup.

Speaker 1 I should have just been drinking it. Yeah, it was good.

Speaker 1 It was really good.

Speaker 1 And then we had the dirty mar teeny bar.

Speaker 1 Teeny slapper.

Speaker 1 And we had little garnishes with little

Speaker 1 sticks that said grill dinner on them. And then other that had olives.
And the other sticks had cornichon pickles on it. Yeah.
So it was delicious. And they were dirty.

Speaker 1 They were real dirty. I didn't have any.
don't, I don't like that. What did you drink? Cosmos on Cosmos.

Speaker 1 And they ran out of cranberry juice by the end of the night because everyone was having Cosmos too. I think they had Sex in the City on one of the TVs.
And I think that was kind of inspiring everyone.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Let's talk about how every TV had the best movie or show on.
Yeah, that was the other thing. We wanted, so everyone came in PJs, so it was like a cozy girl time.

Speaker 1 And then we had fun, girly movies on the three different screens in this cool room. So it was like Legally Blonde, Pride and Prejudice, 13 Going on 30, all those kind of just iconic numbers.

Speaker 1 I do have a problem, though. Like, when I'm in bars and there's a TV on, I can't, I'm like a little kid watching Miss Rachel.
I can't tune away. Someone's trying to talk to me, and I'm like, uh-huh.

Speaker 1 I'm watching like curling. So I've never watched.
I just, I'm zoned in. So I was watching those as well.
God forbid there's subtitles. Oh, God.

Speaker 1 Locked and loaded. I had about, I would say, seven to eight of those drinks, though.
Okay.

Speaker 1 And I was fine. So, what do we think the ratio was?

Speaker 1 No, I really was okay. And then I had a glass of wine and then I had a champagne.
Damn.

Speaker 1 So were they not that strong? Were you, no, that was straight up vodka. Someone, I was drinking a dirty martini and someone was like, oh, is it like strong?

Speaker 1 I was like, well, it's all vodka, pretty much. Maybe it was a good, it was a good amount of the pickle juice, though, or the olive juice in there.
Yeah, I think so. It'd be that darker.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it was at this beautiful hotel.
We had a great view of Los Angeles. All the girls were so pretty.

Speaker 1 We talked about how, as we were getting ready for it, you know, they talk about online, like, dressing for the male gays,

Speaker 1 G-A-Z-E.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Oh,

Speaker 1 clarifying.

Speaker 1 G-A-Z-E.

Speaker 1 I don't dress for the male gays. I do it for, you know, the ladies.
So we thought it was interesting. It's like, I don't, I think that we dress for ourselves.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I also don't know if there's really anything bad at times for dressing for the male gays.

Speaker 1 you are also trying to attract the male gays in some way. So I'm all for it.
But I think that last night we were dressing for the female gaze. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And I was like, I was like, told Olivia, I was like, put on a push-up, get them out. Yep.
And I wore this tiny little, you know, dress and I wore this.

Speaker 1 Cause, like, I think one thing about women, like we were saying, we love to hype each other up.

Speaker 1 We love to feel good around each other because we're going to make each other feel good and we're going to compliment each other.

Speaker 1 And like, it was just this room full of like, oh my God, you look so good. You look so hot.
I mean, one girl was in this beautiful like robe with shit. Is it called Chiffon?

Speaker 1 Maybe the kind of thing that like, you just killed your rich husband oh no it wasn't you're going down a staircase and it's following you

Speaker 1 yeah like that kind of a thing like oh and everyone yeah was able to put their own twist on the outfit some some people somehow made a pj set look like business casual yeah it was so cool so it was a combination of women in sports and women in content creation and just just a fabulous it was so cool to meet new people as well and bring them here to this space yeah did you have fun i had a blast it was your guys's event i was just there in the background and i was just having because i didn't have any responsibilities i could hop to all the different stations, make a little charm bracelet, talk to everyone.

Speaker 1 I was loving it. Yeah.
I like didn't even look at my phone. I think I had like three pictures from the entire night.
Oh my God. Sorry, Meta and Paula's choice.
I tried my best to post.

Speaker 1 She's just so in tune. I'm just, I was so in the moment, actually.

Speaker 1 I had a blast. I didn't want the night to end.
Like, just, I was a little nervous going into it of like, you hear sometimes about like these events like this.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, what if everyone's kind of cold and they're just there to take some pictures and leave? But no, everyone was so into it. That's true.
And I just had amazing conversations.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it wasn't like a fake, like, well, let's make a video and then I'll never talk to you again.

Speaker 1 It was very much so, yeah, there were some pictures being taken and content being made, but it was more like just connecting and people talking.

Speaker 1 And yeah, it was just wonderful to watch women do that and to feel safe in a space like that. And what Alona's kind of speaking to on the way you dress.

Speaker 1 I just saw this tweet about, oh, you dress for men, you dress for men. It's like, yeah, but have you seen a woman dress when they know no men will be there?

Speaker 1 My tits were hiked up to the gods. Like,

Speaker 1 you know what I'm saying? Like, to feel comfortable and happy and just be able to express ourselves in our bodies is so exciting. So, anybody else want to host a party with us? We are available.

Speaker 1 We loved it. We can do margaritas.
Oh, Mars. Wow, our new really fits with stuff.
Yeah. Marjitos.
Oh, marjitos. That's a stretch.

Speaker 1 But yeah, we'll keep working. We'll keep working.

Speaker 1 There's options. There's some out there.
Mars scowl mule. Okay, and that's it.
Someone take the mic from her. That's you're done.
You're cut off. But you guys actually just came back from Hong Kong.

Speaker 1 Yes. Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 It was a blast and a half. It was the right way to do Hong Kong.
So we went with Cathay Pacific and they flew us business class. Which was their first time.

Speaker 1 They were excited. First time in business.

Speaker 1 Okay, actually, maybe not my first-ish time in business, but first time in a lie down, because one time Alona gave me her seat when I was violently ill on a flight and you let me sit.

Speaker 1 It It was just a short connecting flight, San Francisco. Barely girl, yeah.
That doesn't count because I'm just like a big chair. No, I'm a saint.
No, you are so nice.

Speaker 1 It was a, it was a 40-minute flight. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Violently ill is food poisoning, nothing contagious. Yes, it's food poisoning, exactly.
But yeah, first lie down, lie back, lie flat, lie, lie flat, lie back, business class seats. Absolutely.

Speaker 1 I slept eight out of the 16 hours of that flight.

Speaker 1 Incredible.

Speaker 1 It allowed us to like hit the ground running right when we landed landed because we landed at like 7 a.m but then hong kong itself we went there for the cathay slash hsbc hong kong sevens which you've played in you got to watch that we went to various hong kong restaurants with cathay we stayed in a cool hotel called the east hong kong and we i've never been there that was your first time in asia yeah new continent for me unlocked a new continent and i need to go back yeah It was just a cool city.

Speaker 1 It was very clean. It was so busy, but it was yet quiet.
It was quite peaceful. It was very interesting.

Speaker 1 Olivia and I were walking around in the morning when we landed and it was like people were headed to work and it was so quiet.

Speaker 1 I was like in New York City, there would be like 5,000 horns going off and everyone's yelling into a phone. Yeah, yeah.
No, everyone was just like on a lovely stroll to their office. Right.

Speaker 1 Lots of people, but quiet and peaceful. It was really cool.
And it was in a brand new stadium.

Speaker 1 We got to see the USA Rugby Girlies, got to watch them play and see them, which was really special all the way around the world like that. What an experience.
It was incredible.

Speaker 1 And I was so fun to do it with Olivia. We haven't had like an us trip since Orlando.
Oh my God. And And that was fun.
We went to a theme park.

Speaker 1 It was to watch Alona play in Tokyo because we couldn't go. And it was just, we're having a time of our lives bopping around.
And I knew that Hong Kong could be like that.

Speaker 1 Just a time of our lives bopping around. And we did.
Sister trip. Sister trip.
So yeah, that's us. It was good.
My teammates are absolutely amazing people. They have to be on it every day.

Speaker 1 And honestly, my Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra is on it too. I could do so much with this phone without bouncing between a million apps.

Speaker 1 Like when I'm planning a dinner with friends, I just say, find the Italian restaurant nearby and text it to Olivia and Andreana, and boom, done.

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Speaker 1 At the girl girl dinner event we watched rom-coms on the flight you probably watched some rom-coms while you were gone i spent one day watching all rom-coms back to back to back four movies back to back to back rom-coms so that's a big part of is it our our life our culture our our passion our family culture yeah our family culture but we have always used it as something to talk about we think that it brings us joy to watch and so we feel like we have a lot of knowledge so yes go grab a steaming cup of tea we we're Gray people, right?

Speaker 1 Earl Gray. It's a little bergamot in there, a little bit of honey, a little bit of milk.

Speaker 1 And let's get into some of the best romance tropes from sweet to steamy. Ooh, wow.

Speaker 1 Okay. Let's rank them.
Let's rank them. A romance trope will be revealed to us and we need to rank it from one to ten.
But once it's in a position, we can't move it. Blind ranking.
Blind ranking.

Speaker 1 We don't know what's coming next. Our game.
So maybe I'll have to move something. You know.
Because what if it's a a one bad thing and then there's a triangle thing and I get messed up?

Speaker 1 Nope, fine, be strong. Come on.
Fine.

Speaker 1 Here we go. First one is opposites attract.
She's type A, he's chaos, or vice versa. He was a punk.
She did a ballet. What more can I say? Wow.

Speaker 1 And we're talking 10 things I hate about you or like the notebook. Ooh, right.

Speaker 1 I love the notebook. When clips of that come up on when I'm scrolling, I'm sad.
I'm watching. I'm locked in.
I love the notebook. A great one of these is actually a German movie called Issi and Ossi.

Speaker 1 Oh, you got great one.

Speaker 1 That one is about he's a boxer and she's a rich girl and she wants her parents to give her more stuff so she pretends to date the is pretend dating on here.

Speaker 1 Oh my gosh. Okay, wait.
I didn't even know anymore. Okay.

Speaker 1 I do like it. I like it when they're different.
Like, I like when he's like the bad villain and she's like the grumpy sunshine. Grumpy sunshine.
He hates everyone but her.

Speaker 1 I'm going to be so honest. It's not my favorite favorite.
I wouldn't say, yeah, I think it's kind of middle of the road, maybe middle, lower.

Speaker 1 Seven.

Speaker 1 Our minds. I think seven's a solid trip.
Okay. Seven's still sick of seven.
I think we got some good ones coming up. I'm so excited.

Speaker 1 Actually, can I just say one time I got a Snapchat from Adriana with her reading a book and she goes, probably some kind of unlimited, you know, one of those type of books. She's so nervous.

Speaker 1 And she went in the thing she wrote, they just got to the inn and there's more than one bed. I am sick to my stomach.
That has to be a trope. Sick to my stomach.
Sick to my stomach.

Speaker 1 But then she gets nightmares in the middle of the night.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's good.

Speaker 1 Got it. I'm going to start writing for Ryan.
I am touch-starved.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Let's see. Marriage of convenience, tying the knot for practical reasons, but soon enough, things start getting very impractical.
Love, love, love, love, love. The proposal from Blood and Ash.

Speaker 1 What a book. From Blood and Ash is a really fun

Speaker 1 romantic. But, oh, also, New Adult.
So young adult books are like,

Speaker 1 you're fun.

Speaker 1 Oh, they kissed. They held a book.

Speaker 1 New adult books.

Speaker 1 They get freaky. They get freaky.
They're steamy. It gets into steamy.
It's a little steamy. New adult is like from Blood and Ash.
Everyone's reading.

Speaker 1 Throne of glass,

Speaker 1 Akatar, Iron,

Speaker 1 Wings of... Iron Flame.
Iron Flame. Wings of something.
Basically, Akatar.

Speaker 1 from new adult into

Speaker 1 what would you just call that adult

Speaker 1 like when you get to house of silver flames or whatever

Speaker 1 is that all not all that's mature I would say that's all in the well the first one Nesta's book you're right maybe with actually all the killing from the beginning I do agree that it's new adult that's not that can also make something older true violence is marriage of convenience different than pretend

Speaker 1 dating pretendating because I love a pretend dating I think that's different it's different okay different? Marriage of Convenience.

Speaker 1 What else is a marriage of convenience? Oh, I just read. Never mind.

Speaker 1 What'd you read? Tell us. The Werewolf and Vampire one by Allie Hazelwood.
Oh, Bride. Bride.
That was Marriage of Convenience. I'm not going to spoil it.

Speaker 1 I won't spoil it. I'm not thinking too highly of marriage of convenience.

Speaker 1 Okay, so you would rank fake dating over marriage of convenience? I love a fake dating. What is the, but what's the difference?

Speaker 1 What if we're, there's just so many that you can think of that like are good. What's the movie with like

Speaker 1 she

Speaker 1 needs a guy to go to her sister's wedding with? Sorry, I'm kidding. There's so many, I have so many things up in my head right now.
Okay. Marriage of convenience.
Where are we ranking this?

Speaker 1 You don't really like it. I don't mind.
I don't mind. Do you like it more than opposites attract? Oh, I think I do like it more than opposites attract.
Yeah. Six or five.

Speaker 1 Do you like it enough for it to be a five?

Speaker 1 There's just so much out there.

Speaker 1 Six. Six.
Keeping it safe. Okay, we're playing it safe.
If there's a pregnancy trope on here,

Speaker 1 safe number 15: forbidden love, they're not supposed to be together, vampire and academy, akatar, she's human, he's fae in this beginning.

Speaker 1 Okay, with the vampire academ, that is a tough one.

Speaker 1 So, she is a student and he is her trainer. That makes me uncomfortable, but a hot sexy vampire Russian trainer.
So,

Speaker 1 I can see where things get

Speaker 1 muddled there.

Speaker 1 Titanic, Forbidden Love. Isn't that opposites too? I guess that's no, that's forbidden.
No, that's, I think for more forbidden, yeah. Okay.

Speaker 1 Forbidden love is fun, of course.

Speaker 1 I, is that like Romeo and Juliet kind of thing? I'm not, I'm not sold on it. Even though the Vampire Academy is my favorite thing.

Speaker 1 But is that forbidden, though? What? They are both vampires, though. But no, like teacher-student dynamic.

Speaker 1 That I don't like.

Speaker 1 I'm not a big forbidden love. I'm more of like...
What were you just saying about I like hate, the hate one where they don't like each other. Oh, enemies to love.
I'm more like enemies to lovers.

Speaker 1 Than forbidden.

Speaker 1 Okay. I almost want to give it an eight or nine.
Shape of water is interesting. Did you watch that movie? I did.
You like the eggs?

Speaker 1 The beauty of the eggs. I haven't watched it.
What's the eggs one? What is she? She's like, feed some eggs. I don't know.
And they fall in love. Oh, yes, yes, yes.
That was the one.

Speaker 1 That's like the hyper-simplified version of that movie. Is Beauty and the Beast a forbidden love?

Speaker 1 I'm up with Beauty and and the Beast.

Speaker 1 I do too.

Speaker 1 Is that one where he's a dragon? I am Dragon. What do you guys know about I Am Dragon? I am Dragon.
What do you know about I Am Dragon? What country is that from? Can we find out?

Speaker 1 Is that a Russian movie? That's a Russian movie.

Speaker 1 Honestly, pretty good animation. Oh, yeah.
And it's like a forbidden love type. But I still am going lower with Forbidden Love.
Yeah, because that's still, that could be Enemies to Lovers almost.

Speaker 1 I think Enemies to Lovers is better. Yeah.
Yeah. Enemies, yeah.
Okay. I say eight for Forbidden Love.
Or do you want to go nine and save eight for something? Okay, I like that. Nine.
Nine.

Speaker 1 Wait, because if there's a bully romance on here, we've gotten fucked up. Let's go.

Speaker 1 If there's what on here? A bully romance. Oh, like, like, like, someone's the bully.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh. That could still be like enemies to lovers, I guess, but that's

Speaker 1 kind of enemies to lover. Everyone's like, it's a bully romance book.
And I'm like, no.

Speaker 1 Jail. It's a bully romance with a pregnancy trope.

Speaker 1 Exactly. You know what? Let's get some more ladies in there bullying.
Yeah. Bring ladies back to bullying herself.

Speaker 1 Real ladies bully. A craft we need to get back into.
Bullying works. Well, okay.

Speaker 1 Next one. Next up, we have Love Triangle.
Two Heads Are Better Than One. We have Twilight, of course, Edward, Jacob, Hunger Games, Gail, PETA, The Summer I Turn Pretty, The Brothers, and Challengers.

Speaker 1 I raise you

Speaker 1 Akatar. Yeah.
Love

Speaker 1 Triangle. Somewhat.

Speaker 1 But is it much of a love triangle? Because when she's with one, she's with one. And then when she goes goes to

Speaker 1 she's not ever thinking about ever so we're saying a triangle is like entertaining both at the same time yeah like think hunger games or think twilight right okay

Speaker 1 kind of and hunger games too

Speaker 1 hunger games do you guys want to tell everyone what team you were on i'm never sure fully i think i was team jacob though i was team um Jacob just because I liked him more than Edward.

Speaker 1 Like looks-wise.

Speaker 1 I liked him looks-wise, but having read the books, there's something about Edward and just like that all-encompassing, just like love.

Speaker 1 I think if you read the books, my 14- to 15-year-old brain could not even believe. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Hungry Games, ew, Gail. It's got to be

Speaker 1 the books, he can't be. Even in the veil,

Speaker 1 even the books, he skipped. My young mind, though, watching the movies, I was like, Gail's hotter.
So I got a picking on twice.

Speaker 1 And I was just going based on looks. Shallow.

Speaker 1 Summer I turned pretty. I only watched a little bit of that.
I haven't watched that yet. Get into it.
What's another weird watching teenagers doing their thing? We just watched that movie Fallen.

Speaker 1 That was a love triangle. That's a good one.
That's a love triangle. I think I do like it when two men are interested at once.
So I might rank this higher. What are you thinking?

Speaker 1 What about in Quick Thing, movies where it's like two, like the notebook, right?

Speaker 1 Like her love from her high school year or teenage years, and then her new love, James Marsden, who's also like a great guy.

Speaker 1 So, like, what do they do with those situations where there's two great options?

Speaker 1 Like, Enchanted, like, his new woman, who's not a fairy tale princess from a manhole in the ground, so pretty successful, awesome woman, right? That's not even really just like a love guy.

Speaker 1 I think about it. Adele Desique.
Like, what?

Speaker 1 Enchanted. Enchanted.
You're going to go for the crazy girl who you found during a billboard and say, no credit score.

Speaker 1 Lawyer woman. That's crazy work.
I think about the even as a kid, I think I was like, that's not adding up to me. Yeah, I don't think that's right.

Speaker 1 No, the only one that you know is okay with is a parent trap not not the step almost stepmom who's a bitch. Oh and 26 years old in that she's supposedly 26 years old hope for me crazy

Speaker 1 different time

Speaker 1 I'm ranking love triangle pretty high. I think I also

Speaker 1 read some books about it. I would go five.
Yeah. Five

Speaker 1 you want to talk love triangle. Sorry, wings,

Speaker 1 wings. The book

Speaker 1 where she's like a fairy. She's like a plant.
Oh, don't I know it's a bad thing? And there's her finger and sap comes out, and she's literally like photosynthesizing like that.

Speaker 1 And then she goes underwater with the boy. Maybe.
Wait. And she's able to help him breathe because she produces oxygen.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. That's

Speaker 1 right. And so there's her friend in like the human world, and then there's like the fairy guy that visits her in the woods.
I gotta read that again. We already found that.
That's so good, dude.

Speaker 1 It's on my bookshelf. Oh, that book I've reread so many times.
Really? Yeah, Wings. And there's more of them too, but that one is.
I have to reread it.

Speaker 1 Wings is a classic

Speaker 1 sort of like SWAT, like a fairy lore changeling swapped in baby. So it's like a human parents that received a like a fairy baby, but didn't really know it.

Speaker 1 They might have lost their baby or something like that.

Speaker 1 They got a fairy baby, but raised it as human, and she didn't know it, but she was always a little different, a little more pale, but like super pretty, of course.

Speaker 1 And in class one day, like they're, they're pricking, they're doing like, you know, looking for your blood type, but she doesn't have blood come out. It's sap, as Adriana says.

Speaker 1 And we find out that she, like, is photosynthesizing the way a plant does because she's a fairy and she's not like running like a normal person.

Speaker 1 And then she's part of this fairy world in the trees behind her house. And this really cute fairy boy comes to visit.
I'm reading.

Speaker 1 It's so good. It's so freaking good.
But are we, wait, how would we be ranking Love Triangle? Five. Five.
Really? You don't want to go higher with that one? No. What do you mean, higher? Like a four?

Speaker 1 Like a three or a four?

Speaker 1 We love Twilight Hunger Games.

Speaker 1 But I'm not reading Hunger Games because of the romance. Right.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 1 I say five or four. I don't want to go.
I'm not playing it too safe. Like, we don't want to get messed up.

Speaker 1 I think I'm hoping there's real good ones. Okay.
All right. I believe it.
Okay. Let's go.
Or do you want to do four?

Speaker 1 Let's switch up. Go four.
Four. Okay.
Final answer. Up next is second chance romance, rekindling something from the past and maybe getting it right this time.
Adriana, you've had a strong reaction.

Speaker 1 I love it. Do you?

Speaker 1 I do. All right, we got, as examples, Sweet Home Alabama, The Bone Season, and The Notebook again.
The notebook has a lot of tropes in there. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think that's why it's so successful.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 1 You had quite a, yeah, quite a reaction there. Can you talk us through? Because it's the groveling that usually they have to go through.
Because I kind of like own one of them messed up, you know?

Speaker 1 Okay. And then just like years later, they find each other again, and the spark is still there.
So they have to grovel a little bit.

Speaker 1 I love it. Okay.

Speaker 1 Sometimes I don't like it because I want to know. I want it to be like fresh.
Like they just met each other and I can go through it with them. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So second chance, like if I'm reading a book, oh, well, they've already met before in the past. Then I'm like, well, what happened? Yeah.
What happened on that night?

Speaker 1 And then it takes me back to that night seven years ago. And I'm like, what happened? Yeah.
So that would be my only thing with that. Okay.
I,

Speaker 1 yeah, I'm not like high. I'm not like, it's not high in my list.
What's the, I love, is it Emily Henry? And one of her books. Emily Henry does a lot of that.
She does a lot of that.

Speaker 1 But one of her ones that's about like a lake house, can you look that one up for me? Oh, I love that one. Emily Henry is happy place.
That's a, they were soulmates.

Speaker 1 And basically, this, you know, I will say this is miscommunication trope, though. And I hate a miscommunication trope because like, do me a favor, just talk to each other.

Speaker 1 And they were perfect for each other and then like had like a weird random breakup.

Speaker 1 And then they have to go and pretend that they're still together at this like lake house with their friends and sort of rekindle. And I was like, ugh, just talk to each other.

Speaker 1 Like, why were you second, why is there a second second chance here if you could have just communicated in the first place? Do you know what I'm talking about?

Speaker 1 Why were you talking about two beach houses? Were you talking about two beaches? No, I said they go to a beach house. Oh, okay, because she loves beach houses, Emily Henry.
Yeah, she does.

Speaker 1 There's like another one where they're in two beach houses. Yep.
And I think they're both editors.

Speaker 1 And then like a two-headed, and I think that was also a rekindle, a second chance coming. Mm-hmm.
So I don't know. I don't.

Speaker 1 I'm not big on it. John, you had a strong reaction, though.
So where do you put this? We've kind of already filled up the middle section.

Speaker 1 I know, but now we have five available. Or nine and ten, I think.
Five,

Speaker 1 nine, ten, and one. And the top ones.
I could do five. Or is that too high for you guys? Okay, we're split on this.
So we'll split this up.

Speaker 1 I'm not the biggest of second chance romance, but I also don't know if it's a nine. This is what I'm saying.
This is hard. This is not a nine.
Fine. We can.
It's not a nine, but it's also not a five.

Speaker 1 It's also not a five. I think we got to keep the bottom ones kind of open.
These really got to be good. Okay.
I'm nervous. Hey, gave it an eight.
Give it an eight.

Speaker 1 Okay, we'll do do eight give it an eight keeping number 10 open for pregnancy trope and miscommunication slow burn the tension builds painfully over time red white and royal blue leap year the wall of winnipeg and me i will say may i crescent city yes a great slow burn a crawling burn a crawling

Speaker 1 crawl Crescent City is again by the author who does Akatar as well. So it's a new adult book.

Speaker 1 So it has the opportunity to get pretty saucy has the opportunity to get saucy but it it's a actually a very good story that first book is a great story and it's really fun and out there and it's like she's a hot half breed um fallen fairy fairy fae and a human she's hot she's ginger

Speaker 1 and there's technology she doesn't take any but but she doesn't give a frick then she is partnered with this um kind of like a fallen angel type right fallen angel and they're and they're scouting out to try to find what's happening with the murder who burnt it and they have to partner together and the tension's tension's there the whole time oh my gosh and then all we get is one little couch scene and even then it was nothing

Speaker 1 and you say thank you like you're not even mad that that's all you get because the slow burn is that freaking delicious for sure there's the one moment on the roof too where they're like

Speaker 1 and then nothing happens

Speaker 1 so it's a big book too It's a big book and you barely get it and I'm like, well, okay. I just saw a TikTok being like, you know what I was saying? Like, it can't be that serious? It's that serious.

Speaker 1 Like, having it be that big. it's that serious.
That book, it's so freaking good. I think I do like Slowburn.
I love it. The Wall of Winnipeg and me, I love, what's her name? Like, Mariana Zapoda.

Speaker 1 She is an artiste with Slowburn. I've read so many of her books.
Really? A lot of them are sports books. Is this a hockey book? As well.
I don't think she does hockey.

Speaker 1 No, there's ice skating. That's from Lukov with Love.

Speaker 1 Huh? I thought you read that. Say it again.
From Lukov with Love. from lukove with love

Speaker 1 they're ice skaters right and this is kind of like

Speaker 1 they don't maybe almost not enemies to love or maybe a little bit they just like don't like each other at first but they have to partner together and there's just so much tension and i love it okay i reread a lot of her books actually there's something so satisfying about a slow burn because when you get to the to what you know like i've read a book where a friend recommended to me and there was a sex scene like two pages in i was like whoa

Speaker 1 like, there's no gratifying, there's nothing, there's no payoff for that. You didn't work for it, you know?

Speaker 1 You gotta, you gotta work for a little bit, you gotta, you gotta put your time in to really enjoy when something does happen. It's like watching a Korean drama where they brush hands.

Speaker 1 Oh my gosh,

Speaker 1 and the 360 camera around them,

Speaker 1 the rose petals are falling, or whatever, or the cherry blossoms.

Speaker 1 That's that's slow burn. I love a slow burn, but also like with a slow burn, if you mess me up with a fade to black, oh,

Speaker 1 I'll slow it. Speak on her, speak on it.
I'll burn that book.

Speaker 1 I didn't spend all this time for nothing. Yeah, I want to be in there, in the room with him.

Speaker 1 I want to be in your walls. I want to be in the walls.
They're in the walls. These characters that I've now fallen in love with.

Speaker 1 Slow, slow burn.

Speaker 1 Where are we placing that? I mean, we seem to really like Slowburn. I think I can go like a three.
Three. Yeah.
Yeah. Love.

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Speaker 1 Okay, next up we have Rescuer and Rescued. Tangled, City of Bones, The Lost City.
Although, is anyone really getting rescued in the Lost City? Literally. I just watched that movie again.

Speaker 1 That was one of my four movies I watched. I loved that movie.
I like it too. I think it's fun.

Speaker 1 Adriana has laughed the hardest i've ever heard her laugh recently watching that movie right the last city city of bones is that immortal instruments i think so right the first one so another sibling

Speaker 1 so another another sibling romance

Speaker 1 another fake sibling romance

Speaker 1 okay i don't know if i'm too into this one it's not my favorite i don't mind it but i love reading books where it's more like a badass lady character doing her thing yeah i kind of and they save each other.

Speaker 1 Okay. Beautiful.

Speaker 1 I like it when it's like it is, you know, he's really powerful and he's obsessed with her and he's going to save her with anything, but I don't like it too much when like the female character is like too weak or something like that or blah blah blah.

Speaker 1 I like her to be a little bit like

Speaker 1 shave herself type. And I hear you because I also like that.
Like I want it to be a boss ass bitch. And there's so many like so much discourse online now of like, sometimes I just want to be saved.

Speaker 1 Like I don't want to hear about like a powerful like i want to hear about more like a dainty like a snow white thing i hear you guys not me though right i don't want to read that like whenever it's i'm reading a book and the it feels like the woman never knows how to do anything or like how to help herself and i'm like what the

Speaker 1 stand up stand up for yourself yeah so i don't really like it reese witherspoon uh she gave a speech and part of it she was like i was getting all of these scripts where all the woman said was what are we gonna do now and she's like what woman do you know has has ever said, what are we going to do now?

Speaker 1 Women always have the plan and the next thing involved. It's like, period, Reese.
She's like, look out for it. You'll hear it everywhere now.

Speaker 1 So I also, but I do it, but with like the Snow White thing, I do want a strong female for sure, but I also want her to find love.

Speaker 1 I want her to be that strong, as strong as we are, and still find love and a happy ending. And maybe she saves herself, but also you can use a little bit of help.

Speaker 1 Because with Tangled, she had already made the decision to change her life. Yeah.
He just showed up and she grabbed the opportunity. Right.
So there I say she's rescued herself.

Speaker 1 No, no hate to those who want a strong somebody to come save them as well.

Speaker 1 I could use one of them now. That's what I'm saying.
I wouldn't be able to do it. One of my love too.
If a big boy busted in here, helped save me from you too.

Speaker 1 Yep.

Speaker 1 What the hell do we do?

Speaker 1 So I also, I do like that in some ways. Like, even though, I mean, we're all, but I'm like, very strong woman.
I'm a very strong woman, very independent woman.

Speaker 1 There are those times when I like to feel like, not tiny, but like taken care of, protected.

Speaker 1 Like, I'm just so, you know, on the road to go,

Speaker 1 I'm gonna do.

Speaker 1 And then I have a man, I'm like, man, I'm so tiny. Thank you for helping me shape and please, you know.
So, I think there's that balance, and it's okay to like that, to feel that way.

Speaker 1 Like, if that's what you and that person are on the same page of feeling that way, like, there's no, you know, I'm independent, but girl likes to be taken care of. I'm stressed now.

Speaker 1 Where are we putting this?

Speaker 1 I can honestly go with five, oh, with 10 on this. I can go 10.
I'll go 10. 10.
When, when, when the woman, I mean, when the

Speaker 1 woman, no one, when, no,

Speaker 1 when, when,

Speaker 1 when the

Speaker 1 speak up, um, when the female character is too, like, in needing of being saved or like dainty or whatever, I'm like, all right, let's wrap it up. DNF.
DNF.

Speaker 1 Aileen Ashriver Galathinius, she did that all herself. What y'all know about Aiden? What y'all know?

Speaker 1 What y'all know about her?

Speaker 1 She did that all herself.

Speaker 1 Dude, that was all appearing. She was 10,000 steps ahead of time.

Speaker 1 For real.

Speaker 1 No, I'll cry.

Speaker 1 Cut that out.

Speaker 1 Spoiler. If you haven't read those books yet, go read it.
Yeah. You should have read it by now.
It's been out for years. Yeah.
Go read it. Get after it for real.

Speaker 1 So you can be in on these conversations and understand. Yeah.
You're missing out. Key info.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Which really, I'm chiller about revealing stuff with Agator, but throwing a glass, I think people should really experience. I don't know.
I don't feel so much there.

Speaker 1 You know, next one, we have like

Speaker 1 one, two, and five ranking. One, two, and five are left to rank.

Speaker 1 Oh, no. Here we go.
I'll read this one.

Speaker 1 Secret Billionaire. I'm like, Secret Billionaire.
Secret Billionaire. They don't even need to be secret.
I love them.

Speaker 1 Billionaire's Boys Club, Crazy Rich Asians.

Speaker 1 Okay, I will say it. I read a lot of billionaire romances.
I do. I would love to be with someone and they reveal that.
I'm like, chill. I would love that.
That's cool with me.

Speaker 1 I think with the secret billionaire trope, I think a good example is Crazy Rich Asians. She's dating this guy and they've fallen in love and he's normal and he, she's a professor, right?

Speaker 1 And he does something seemingly normal and then he gets invited to his essentially brother, brother's best friend's wedding in Singapore and they get there and oh my God, he has so much money.

Speaker 1 His family is loaded and she's just learning this for the first time, but she fell in love with him as not the loaded guy. So I think that's a classic,

Speaker 1 but also a little interesting. I'd be a little bit

Speaker 1 from her. For you've been together for a year, ready to marry her, and you're going to keep that from her.
And obviously, she's going to find out once you take her to Singapore.

Speaker 1 Like, why you should warn her? Why aren't you, like, why are you letting her find out for herself through other people? And then, in that movie, the friends were really terrible to her.

Speaker 1 When she went on that, um, the girl's girl's trap and they leave like the dead fish in her bed, and he was like, chill about it. Yeah, and then she forgave.
She better be raging.

Speaker 1 She forgave him way too easy

Speaker 1 for that half-assed response. But speaking of that,

Speaker 1 where's movie two?

Speaker 1 Where's movie number two? Are they ever going to make that? Don't care. That's neither.

Speaker 1 It's such a perfect movie.

Speaker 1 But I'm like, would the sequel live up? Probably not, but it's so good. I do love Secret Billionaire, but I think it's five.
I think it's five, too. Okay.
I don't think I really do.

Speaker 1 If there are any Secret Billionaires, hit a girl up.

Speaker 1 Hit some girls up. But also, how did you get your money? Yeah, was it ethical? No, probably not.
Probably not. Should we make it 10 then? No.

Speaker 1 No, we already have 10. Five.
Okay, five. Okay, here we go.

Speaker 1 Yes!

Speaker 1 So,

Speaker 1 enemies to lovers.

Speaker 1 They can't stand each other, but they can't stay away.

Speaker 1 God, these are good. Akatar.
You've got male. When Harry met Sally.
You've got male. He fully put her into unemployment, though.
No. I don't know.
Oh, yeah. I don't really mess with that one.

Speaker 1 Akatar is great.

Speaker 1 Love that. I can't believe.

Speaker 1 And Iron.

Speaker 1 Why do I, why do I not know the name of this book? Fourth Wing. Fourth Wing.

Speaker 1 That was kind of Enemies to Lovers. Yeah.
Absolutely, right? I feel like there's always kind of a little envy. But then, you know, in real life, it's just not really a realistic trope.
No.

Speaker 1 And they do the real life ones. Like, Allie Hazelwood will write

Speaker 1 an enemies to lover. Not bad.
Yeah. Where it's kind of like, okay, a bit of a stretch, but okay.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It doesn't really make sense.

Speaker 1 But you saw the thing that was like, if you like enemies to lovers so much, you just are in love with the idea that someone could see you at your worst and see all of your faults and still love you despite it.

Speaker 1 Like, see you as the enemy and then still love you despite it. Wow.
Okay, interesting. In spite of, yeah.
But like, love it, right? That's another good example.

Speaker 1 There's so many. I mean, even From Blood and Ash is kind of a second book of enemies to lose.
A lot of fantasy.

Speaker 1 You could even say a lot of fantasy to enemies to lovers. Throne of glass.

Speaker 1 Throne of glass.

Speaker 1 Punch you in the face. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He said that you should be ready to die. Maybe it would have been better if you had died.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah. I recently reread that.
Pride and Prejudice, Enemies to Lovers.

Speaker 1 Were they enemies or did she just not like her? Well, he didn't like her. Remember, you said those comments? I'd say he's enemies to lovers.
Enemies to lovers. Emma.

Speaker 1 Well, because they get,

Speaker 1 they don't like each other for a minute.

Speaker 1 He says that

Speaker 1 you're too much of like in everyone's business.

Speaker 1 I'm going number one, enemies to lovers. I'm, yeah, number one.
Let's do it. I'm nervous for what's happening next.
So yeah, we can't make whatever's happening next. Second.
Oh, gosh. Here we go.

Speaker 1 Number one. Here we go.
Last one. Ilona, read it.
Yup!

Speaker 1 Yup! Yup!

Speaker 1 Fake relationship. They're only pretending until it's not pretend anymore.
To all the boys I've loved before, how to lose a guy in 10 days, the wedding date. There's a lot of them, and I love it.

Speaker 1 Izzy and Ulsi is also a fake relationship one. Oh, yeah.
Where they pretend to be dating.

Speaker 1 And I love that. A lot of Kendall Unlimited.
A lot of Kindle Unlimited fake relationship stuff. But to all the boys I loved before is was such a moment in time.

Speaker 1 I just remember like in college, all of us getting together for a sleepover and just watching it. And then we re-watched it like a week later.
And it was just so well done.

Speaker 1 And it was just like such a good feeling. I got to watch that one again because haven't they made like three other movies? Yeah, and I didn't.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they've made like at least two others, I think. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I thought it was. What are you talking about? You're thinking Summer.
Noah Centenal.

Speaker 1 A good book one is Funny Story, Emily Henry. Yes.

Speaker 1 she they

Speaker 1 she gets dumped pretty much before her wedding by her fianc who that goes with his like childhood best friend and so then the child best friend had to dump her boyfriend and she need the art protagonist had to find a place to live turns out

Speaker 1 turns out there's a room open in his apartment

Speaker 1 So then they she moves in there and then they're like, oh, well, let's make him jealous. And they make him jealous by pretending to fake date, but then they actually really love each other.

Speaker 1 Emily Henry loves a protagonist that's a book nerd. She loves a book nerd.
She loves a library. She's a librarian in that, huh? Yep, she's a librarian in that one.
Or like an editor.

Speaker 1 She was an editor. Yeah, writer.
Yep. Bookstore owners, all that, all that stuff.

Speaker 1 Agent.

Speaker 1 That's fake dating, and then they end up falling in love. So, yeah, number two.
I love it. I think we did great.
I'm giving figures number two.

Speaker 1 We killed that. We killed that.
I was really nervous all the way through. Because if we had saved a spot for pregnancy,

Speaker 1 we would have been messed up. Let's all, let's just go over what it is.
Yeah. Pregnancy trope.
Pregnancy trope, tries, pregnancy trope.

Speaker 1 A lot of times they have a one-night stand

Speaker 1 and then she gets pregnant and then it's like, or she wakes up feeling sick and you're like, God, she's vomiting. You're like, Jesus.
God, no.

Speaker 1 Boring. Once the other stuff.

Speaker 1 Because then a big hater. It overtakes the entire plot of where you thought it was going to go.
And all of a sudden it's like, no, it's about to be about this. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And I feel like it's a, sometimes it feels like a cop-out to truly developing like the the characters in the relationship.

Speaker 1 The love is then directed at this child and that bringing them together instead of them as people.

Speaker 1 The only time it was okay, breaking dawn. That's the only time.
Is that a pregnancy trope? She gets pregnant, so kind of.

Speaker 1 And it's a surprise. They're on the island on their honeymoon because the baby is developing so rapidly being a vampire.
And she's like eating chicken out of the trash. When that happened.

Speaker 1 So.

Speaker 1 And I will say it's different than like, because sometimes I do read a book where it's,

Speaker 1 he he doesn't know that she got pregnant and maybe it was like a miss, like it was a one-night stand and then she didn't get his like contact information.

Speaker 1 And so then I love the reveal when he was like,

Speaker 1 okay, so this guy sucks for four years old. No, it sucks.
And then like he's usually so heartbroken that he wasn't there for it. Yeah, awful trope.
Well, no, this one isn't a surprise one.

Speaker 1 This is, it's like, because it's the entire book of like them, they, of course, fall in love and he becomes the dad. Of course.
Of course. I hate miscommunication, like I said.

Speaker 1 As someone who over communicates, just do that. Right.
Because, again, it's like the right person, you can't say the wrong thing. I don't know.
Maybe. Do you believe that? I don't know.
Kind of.

Speaker 1 If it's the right person, you can't say the wrong thing. Yeah.
No, I guess you can say the wrong thing, but like to the right person,

Speaker 1 you'll be able to work through it, I guess.

Speaker 1 I don't know. I could expand upon that one myself.
No, because I've been sitting here feeling very bad about my five-white hair comment to you, so you can say the wrong thing.

Speaker 1 But I don't judge you for it. It was funny.
I was like, I got to tell them to cut that. No, that's right.
No, she's fine. No, that's fine.
That's funny. Like, that's not the wrong thing, guys.

Speaker 1 She's practically 50 years old.

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