These Romance Tropes Make Us SWEAT

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Guys, we just, we just literally ruined the plot of Agra Tark for one of our, our, our producers' ladies back there.

Oh my gosh!

She just read the first one on the plane.

Oh, we are the worst!

You would have pieced it together in 30 pages.

We are the worst!

You probably would have figured that out, but dang!

Can I say?

Oh my gosh!

I knew immediately what was happening. We're horrible people.
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I'm Ilona. And I'm your other host, Olivia.
And I'm the last host, Adriana. Thanks for joining us back here on our couch.
We've spent hours on end together in libraries, bookstores, reading together, in our living room. You know, we're big readers.
We like being together. 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 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 we've we've switched around the the room we're trying it out a little bit we 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 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 we can 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 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 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 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 my hair parts on makes me feel pretty it's beautiful gorgeous she's also been killing her makeup oh my god guys 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 concealer too also adrana it's all concealer it's all concealer that i use this time i fully thought you had a makeup artist for dancing with the stars day i was like that it was the blending and just the coverage i Alona can do that.
And she's contouring too. I'm trying to contour.
I don't know who you are anymore. No, and she's doing her brows because she on the side not too behind your back.
She was like, Alona needs to work on her brows. She's kicked it up enough.
I told her. Oh, you did? I told you to brush out your brows.
Yeah, she tells me to brush out my brows a lot. But I went and bought another brow stick because I stole yours.
But my brows are lighter than yours. Yeah.
That's why I went. Where's that stick? I'd love that pack.
I don't know, girl. Don't worry about it.
Get another one. It's been used and abused.
Used and abused. One thing also, we've been getting comments that we sound so alike.
Yeah, sorry about that. Well, you two sound alike.
Olivia and I sound alike. Okay, everyone who's listening, guess who's talking in three, two, one? Hey, y'all.
Okay. That doesn't even sound like you not even when she talks that's that's olivia i think you guys got to start saying like a walkie talkie like olivia out this is alona speaking um out copy out out 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 the same laughs if 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's at the same time that's 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 my residents how may i help you that's how we'd have to answer i don't know why my friends and i'm like how may i help you they're like alona which it does work if like uh like 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 yeah behind it like family business you've reached the front desk even though we say mar residents how may i help you i know how's that work for you i can't believe you have no decorum and say can i help you maybe it's just the pressure of having to do it on camera please uh probably you've practiced a lot though our voices sound similar 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 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 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 i was like do i look five years older than i am or does she look five years younger because it just kind of feels like a slap in the face if it's tell us in the comments who's the prettiest who's the prettiest i'm just kidding no more complimenting her makeup 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 it yeah i guess structure wise i think eyes she just judged the hell out of my eyebrows did you guys see that eyebrows you know you know you got great eyebrows clocked in 4k john's been working on eyebrow game eyebrows really no i love my eyebrows those those distant cousins i don't think so no i had an like 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 and then a year later i found out that my best friend thought it was a selfie of myself the entire time oh no 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 can we go a little bit deeper there please what are your thoughts i think it's a little weird really it's almost like walking into alona's bedroom and seeing all the fan art of her covering her walls it's weird for you guys sorry i love myself right that's what i'm thinking it's like sorry you gotta love you at the end of the day and if it's a picture of you on your home screen that's doing it like okay good on you 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 to yourself like you're 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.

Yeah.

That's been real freaky.

That makes me mad. But mind you, back to her makeup.

Because 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.

I was like, am I too pretty right now?

The hell?

Is my phone not seeing you?

I tried it.

I had to use my Passco.

That was weird.

They're like, no, we've never seen it.

It was a contour.

Ever. Ever.
Nice fucking try. Nice fucking try nice try you guys who's this olivia 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 yeah thank you so much and your ears i have teeny tiny ears go ahead and get it close up can we get it can we zoom in on the ears you can wiggle them too i can wiggle them wow i have massive earlobe things i am single so can we zoom in here let me see zoom in on my earlobes oh she's got she's got um one of those really detached loopy things yeah hey jonah i i don't know if i've ever looked at my ears like that quite narrow ones if got quite narrow ones.
If someone held them too close to your head for a second. I got them pinned back.
No, literally. Starting that rumor.
What else would we say is similar that we all share? Alona and I, we have kind of similar eyes. Yours are a little brighter though.
Color? Eye color? Yeah, eye color. Yes, I color with similar.
She is brown. We get it.
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 i always get the thin hair like comp not compliments kind of backhand and be like your hair is so thin and fine alona's is so thick and luscious it's so great get her in a shampoo And then we get, oh, you have your grandmother's hair.

Right.

And that's not not a compliment,

but it's just different genetics.

Do you ever worry about balding?

Okay.

Okay. I do.

I do.

I think it's coming for me one day.

You think?

I think my hair,

when I get old,

I think my hair is going to be even fine.

We're knocking on wood if you're listening. If you're only listening.
I found my first white hair. You good, dude? Because sometimes I have like blonder hairs.
And I was like, is it blonde? And then I 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 change to white. 26 changes you, man.
You're about to turn. 25.
Well, you're 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 counted? You've got a few up there. That is so messed up, Adrona.
She's pretty much 40. Coming for me today.
Okay. That's the thing.
Our dad, he was like oh olivia the oldest she's about 30 i was like whoa that math ain't math 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 let's touch some grass and talk about real life coming up on today's episode of house of mar we're talking h Kong, our girl dinner pajama party, and doing a huge ranking of our all-time favorite romance tropes. We're also spoiling the ACTA 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, and we invited a bunch of fabulous women from LA and just had a womanhood, girlhood evening. Yeah.
Fabulous. It was great.
But we all wore fancy silky PJs and feathers and long sleeves. Ilona looked incredible.
You slay. Insert a photo here.
Stop it. Insert a photo.
You're in this little dress number with a robe that was white, silky was like white silky flower detail. I got out of my Uber and some guy came to like, you know, help me out and I was like, please sir, look away.
Please. Avert your eyes.
My little lady parts there. Aldrana recently, her zipper jeans broke, busted open.
I had two pairs of jeans break within a week. Yeah, she's down to one.
That's what he's saying. She took things.
She's too thick they gotta put a lot in them jeans they gotta put in work but she had this little purse so she carried it like this well it broke in the stadium in hong kong which we'll get to first i had to take off my cardigan wrapped it around but then we were walking to the taxi it was so cold so i just put my cardigan back on and i held my purse in front of my crotch the entire walk and then olivia and i were at a restaurant and i was like why am i feeling the seat so much why is there so much skin to skin a rip right on the butt it was huge actually when you sat down i think it grew when i sat down like i think you know like just like the way my body moved like ripped it open literally busting busting out of them jeans. Literally.
The tight, what is it? Oh my gosh, dude. The aftershock.
That could be me. Yeah.
Just quit. That is me.
What? You gotta stop, dude. No, you can't have both.
You've been filling out some pants too recently. No, I've been catching.
No, you have been. I've been catching my reflections sometimes.
A hundred percent. She walks by a store window and she's like, wait a second.
Why am I so caked up? Are y'all seeing this? What the hell? Maybe it's because you haven't been doing your Pilates. Or my walks.
I've been doing big walks. Isn't that a thing you can walk your ass off? I haven't heard that one personally.
To like literally do it. I don't know.
But the girl dinner event was super fun uh sorry about that guys um we had tons of dirty martinis delicious i will say yep and at my one request uh 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 my big thing was like i'm loving everything but where, but where the pickles at? I need way more pickles involved in this day. Can you, you curated pretty much the girl dinner meal.
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. There were little things of French fries around.
You could do a Caesar salad. There was also various dips and crudités because that feels very girl dinner there's also little sliders got to get some protein in there those were good those were yummy they were really yummy 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 i had that burger probably four hours after it was made and delicious and it's still pretty delicious and there's a little grilled cheeses with um those tomato soups the tomato I started just drinking it yeah it was good right it was really good and then we had the dirty Mar teeny bar knee slapper and we had little garnishes with a little um sticks that said girl dinner on them and then other that had olives and the other sticks had cornichon pickles on it it yeah so it was delicious and they were dirty they were real dirty i didn't have any i don't i don't like that what did you drink cosmos on cosmos and they ran out of um cranberry juice by the end of the night because everyone was having cosmos too i think they had sex in the city on um on one of the tvs and i think that was kind of inspiring everyone yeah let's talk about how every tv had the best movie or show on yeah it was the other thing is we wanted so everyone came in pjs so it was like a cozy girl time 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 uh 13 going on 30 all those kind of just iconic numbers 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 i'm like uh-huh i'm watching like curling something i've never watched i just i'm zoned in so i was watching those as well god forbid there's subtitles oh my god locked and loaded i had about i would say seven to eight of those drinks though okay and i was fine so what do we think the ratio was no i i really was okay and then i had a glass of wine then i had champagne damn 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 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 would be that color. It was darker.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it was at this beautiful hotel.
We had a great view of Los Angeles. Yeah.
All the girls were so pretty. We talked about how as we were getting ready for it.
You know, they talk about online, like dressing for the male gaze. G-A-Z-E.
Yeah. Oh.
I was like gaze i do it for you know the the ladies so we thought it was essentially as like i don't i think that we dress for ourselves yeah i also don't know if there's really anything bad at times for dressing for the male gaze if you are also trying to attract the male gaze in some way. So I'm all for it.
But I think that last night we were dressing for the female gaze. Yeah.
And I was like, I was like, totally. I was like, put on a push up, get them out.
Yup. And I wore this tiny little, you know, dress and I wore this.
I think one thing about women, like we're saying, we love to hype each other up. We love to feel good around each other because we're gonna make each other feel good and we're gonna compliment each other 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 is it called chiffon maybe the kind of thing that like you just killed your rich husband oh no it wasn't going down a staircase and it's following you oh 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 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 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 gosh sorry meta and paula's choice i tried my best to post she's just so in tune

I'm just

I was so in the moment

actually

I had a blast

I didn't want the night to end. I was a little nervous going into it of like, you hear sometimes about like these events like this.
And I'm like, what if everyone's kind of cold and they're just there to take some pictures then leave? No, everyone was so into it. That's true.
And I just had amazing conversations. Yeah, it wasn't like a fake like, well, let's make a video and then i'll never talk to you again 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 and yeah it was just wonderful to watch women do that and to feel safe in a in a space like that and what alona is kind of speaking to you on the way you dress i just saw this this tweet about oh you you dress for men you dress for men like, yeah, but have you seen how women dress when they know no men will be there? My tits were hiked up to the gods.
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.
We loved it. We can do margaritas.garitas oh wow our name really fits with stuff yeah

yeah marquitos oh marquitos that's a stretch but yeah we'll keep working um there's there's options

there's some out there marscal mule okay and that's it someone take the mic from her that's

you're done you're cut off um but you guys actually just came back from hong kong yes oh my god it was a blast and a half it was the right way to do hong kong so we went with cafe pacific and they flew us business class which was their first time they were they were excited first time business okay actually maybe not my first time 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.

It was just a short connecting flight, San Franto.

Barely, girl.

But that doesn't count because it's just like a big chair.

I'm a saint.

No, you are so nice.

It was a 40 minute flight.

Yeah.

Finally, it was 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. Yes, absolutely.
I slept eight out of the 16 hours of that flight. Oof.
Incredible. It allowed us to like hit the ground running right when we landed because we landed at like 7 a.m.
But then Hong Kong itself, we went there for the cafe slash HSBC Hong Kong 7s, 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 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. It was very clean.
It was so busy, but it was yet quiet.

It was quite peaceful.

It was very interesting.

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.

It was like in New York City, there would be like 5,000 horns going off.

And everyone's yelling into a phone.

No, everyone was just like on a lovely stroll to their office.

Right.

Lots of people, but quiet and peaceful.

It was really cool.

And it was in a brand new stadium. We got to see the the usa rugby girlies watch 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 and i was so fun to do it with olivia we haven't had like a an us trip since orlando oh my god and that was fun we went to a theme park we 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 just time of our lives bopping around and we did sister trip so yeah that's us it was good my teammates are absolutely amazing people they have to be on it every day and honestly my samsung galaxy s25 ultra is on it too i could do so much with this phone without balancing between a million apps.
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Note, due to the nature of AI, results and quality may vary each time. At the 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, just watching rom-coms.
So that's a big part of, is our our life our culture our our passion our family culture 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 earl gray people right earl gray so like a bergamot in there a little bit of honey a little of milk. And let's get into some of the best romance tropes from sweet to steamy.
Ooh. Wow.
Okay. Let's dive in.
Let's rank them. A romance trope will be revealed to us and we need to rank it from 1 to 10 but once it's in a position we can't move it.
Blind ranking. Blind ranking.
We don't coming next our game so maybe i'll have to move something you know what if it's a one bad thing and then there's a triangle thing and i get messed up nope fine be strong come on fine here we go first one is opposites attract she's type a he's chaos or vice versa he was a punk she did ballet what more can i say wow and we're talking 10 things i hate about you or like the notebook oh right 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 actually a german movie called issy and aussie oh you guys great one 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 oh my gosh okay wait i don't even know anymore okay 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 i'm gonna 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 seven are mines i think seven's a solid okay seven feels fair seven i think we got some good ones coming up i'm so excited actually can i just 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.

And she went in the thing she wrote.

They just got to the end.

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.

But then she gets nightmares in the middle of the night god that's good i'm gonna start writing for real i am touch starved okay okay let's see marriage of convenience tying the knot for practical reasons but soon enough things start getting very impractical love love love love the love, love, love. The Proposal from Blood and Ash.
What a book. From Blood and Ash is a really fun, what do you call it? Romanticy.
But, oh, also, New Adult. So, young adult books are like, you're fun.
Oh, they kissed. They held hands.
New Adult books. They get freaky.
It gets a little steamy new adult is like from blood and ash everyone's reading um throne of glass um iron um wings of iron flame iron flame wings of something i would say akatar goes from new adult into what would you just call that adult like when you get to house of silver flames or whatever i would say that's true is that all not mature i would say it's all well the first one nesta's book you're right maybe it was actually all the killing from the beginning i do agree that it's new at all let's not that can also make something older violence is marriage of convenience different than pretend pretend dating pretend dating because i love a pretend dating i think that's different it's different okay different a marriage of convenience what else is a marriage of convenience oh i just read never mind the werewolf and vampire one by ali hazelwood oh bride bride that was marriage of convenience I'm not gonna spoil it i won't i won't spoil it um i'm not thinking too highly of marriage of convenience okay so you would rank fake dating over marriage of convenience i love a fake dating what is the but what's the difference opposite what if we're there's just so many that you can think of that like are good what's the movie with like she she needs a a

guy to go to her sister's wedding with i'm getting there's so many i have so many things up in my head right now okay marriage of inconvenience where are we ranking this 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 do you like it enough for it to be a five there's just so much out there six six keeping it safe okay we're playing it safe if there's a pregnancy trope on here save number 10 forbidden love they're not supposed to be together vampire academy akatar she's human he's fey in the beginning okay with the vampire academy one that is a tough one so she is a student and he is her trainer that makes me uncomfortable but a hot sexy vampire russian trainer so and he's strong see where things get muddled there where it's titanic forbidden love is that opposites too i guess that's no that's forbidden no that's i think for more forbidden yeah okay forbidden love is fun of course i is that like romeo and juliet kind of thing i'm not i'm not sold on it even though the vampire academy five everything but is that forbidden though what they are both vampires though but no like teacher student dynamic oh i see that i don't like i don't like that 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 i'm more like enemies to lovers than forbidden 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 that that the eggs i haven't watched it what's the eggs one what what is she she's like feed some eggs i don't know and they fall in love oh yes yes that was like the hyper simplified version of that movie is beauty and the beast for bread and love i'm like with beauty and the beast i do too okay that one where he's a dragon i am dragon what do you guys know about i am dragon what do you know about i am dragon what country is that from can we find out is that a russian movie russian movie pretty honestly pretty good animation oh yeah and it's like a forbidden love type but i i still am going lower with forbidden love yeah because that's still that could be enemies lovers almost i think enemies 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 please wait guys because if there's a bully romance on here we've gotten fucked up there's one on here a bully romance oh like like like someone's the bully yeah love oh that could still be like enemies lovers i guess but that's that's kind of enemies everyone's

like it's a bully romance book and i'm like no jail it's a bully romance with a pregnancy trope exactly i want let's get some more ladies in there bullying yeah ladies back yeah real ladies bully a craft we need to get back into bullying works well okay next one next up we have love triangle two heads are better than one we have twilight of course edward jacob hunger games gail pita the samurai turned pretty the brothers and challengers i raise you um acotar yeah love triangle somewhere you have but is it much of a love triangle because when she's when she's with one she's with one and then when she goes to she's not ever thinking about ever again so we're saying a triangle is like entertaining both at the same time yeah like think hunger game or think twilight okay kind of hunger games too hunger games do you You guys to tell everyone what team you were on i'm never surefully i think i was team jacob though i was team um jacob just because i liked him more than edward like looks wise i liked him looks wise but having read the books or something about edward and just like that all-encompassing just like love i think if you read the books yeah 14 to 15 year old brain could not even believe yeah okay uh hungry ames ew gail it's got to be yeah he can't even the books he kind of yeah even the books my young mind though watching the movies i was like gail's hotter so i kind of picked around twice and i was just going based on looks shallow this summer i turned pretty i only watched a little bit of that i haven't watched that yet i can't get into it what's another like weird watching teenagers doing their thing we just watched that that movie fallen that was a love triangle that's a love triangle i think i do like it when two two men are interested at once so i might rank this higher what are you thinking what about in quick thing movies where it's like two like the notebook right like her love from her high school or teenage years and then her new love james marsden who's also like a great guy it's like what do they do with those situations where there's two great options? Like Enchanted, like his new woman, who's not a fairytale princess from a manhole on the ground. So pretty successful, awesome woman.
Right. That's not even really just like a love triangle.
I think about that a lot. Like what? Enchanted.
Enchanted. You're going to go for the crazy girl who you found trying to get through a billboard instead of the hot lawyer woman? That's crazy work think about those even as a kid i think i was like that's not adding up to me yeah i don't think that's right no the only one that you know is okay with is a parent trap not not the the step almost stepmom who's a oh yeah and 26 years old in that she's supposedly 26 years old hope for me crazy different time um i'm ranking love triangle pretty high i think i also used to read some books about it i would go five yeah five you want to talk love triangle sorry wings wings wings the book where she's like a fairy she's like a plant oh don't i know it and there's her finger and sap comes out.
And she's literally like photosynthesizing. And then she goes underwater with the boy.
Maybe. And she's able to help him breathe because she produces oxygen.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 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 got to read that again.
No, we found it. It's so good, dude.
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

wings is a classic um 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 they might have lost

their baby or something like that 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 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 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 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 that right when we get back it's so good it's so freaking good but are we how would are we 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? Like a three or a four?

Three. We love Twilight Hunger Games.

Like... triangle five five really you don't want to go higher with that one no what do you mean higher like a four like a three or a four we love twilight hunger games like but i'm not reading hunger games because of the romance right right i say i say five or four i don't want to go playing it too safe like no 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 let's switch up go four four 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 i love 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.
Right. Opposites.
Drake, 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 it when one of them messed up, you know? Okay. And then just like years later, they find each other again and the spark is still there.
So they have to grovel little bit i love it okay 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 so second chance like if i'm reading a book oh well they've already met before in the past then i'm like what happened yeah what happened on that night why didn't it work 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 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 but one of her ones that's about like a lake house can you look that one up oh i love that one emily henry's happy place that's a they were soulmates 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 um and they were perfect for each other and then like had like a weird random breakup and then they have to go and pretend that they're still together at this like lake house with their friends and sort rekindle. And I was like, ugh, just talk to each other.
Why is there a second chance here if you could have just communicated in the first place? Do you know what I'm talking about? Why were you talking about two beach houses? Were you talking about two beach houses? No, I said they go to a beach house. Oh, okay, because she loves beach houses, Emily Henry.
Yeah, she does. Because there's another one where they're in two beach houses, and i think they're both editors and then like he did something and i think that was also a rekind a second chance romance so i don't know i don't i'm not big on it john you would have strong reaction though so where do we put this we've kind of already filled up the middle section i know but now we have five available or nine and ten i think five nine ten and one two three ones i could do five or is that too high for you guys okay we're split on this so what's your decision biggest 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 it's also not a.
I think we got to keep the bottom ones kind of open.

These really got to be good.

Okay.

I'm nervous.

Give it an eight.

Give it an eight.

Okay, we'll 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 press in city. Yes.
A great slow burn. A crawling burn.
A crawling burn. A crawl.
Crescent City is, again, by the author who does ACOTAR as well. So it's a new adult book.
So it has the opportunity to get pretty saucy. It has the opportunity to get saucy, but it's actually a very good story.
That first book is a great and it's really fun and out there and it's like she's a hot half-breed um fall fairy fairy fairy and a human she's hot she's ginger everyone loves her and she's technology doesn't take any she doesn't give a frick then she has partnered with this um kind of like a fallen angel type right fallen angel in there and they're scouting out to try to find what's happening with the murder, who murdered it. And they have to partner together.
And the 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.
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 and then nothing happens so it's a big book too it's a big book

and you barely get it i'm like 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 like having it be that big it's that serious that book

it's so freaking good i think i do like slow burn i love it i love it the wall of winnipeg and me i love what's her name like mariana zapata she is an artiste with slow burn i've read so many of her books really a lot of them are sports books is this a hockey book no there's ice skating that's um from lukeke with love huh i thought you read that say it again from luke with love from luke with love yes they're ice skaters right and this is kind of like they don't maybe almost not enemies still ever 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 yeah like there's no gratifying there's something there's no payoff for that you didn't work for it you know 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 oh my gosh god and the 360 camera around them oh they stop the rose petals are falling or whatever the cherry blossoms 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 out of speaker speak on it i'll burn that book i didn't spend all this time for nothing yeah i want to be in there in the room with them i want to be in your walls i want to be in the walls they're in the wall these characters

that i've now fallen in love with so slow burn where are we placing that i mean we seem to really like slow burn i think that can go like a three three yeah yeah love i leave one for pregnancy I'm alright with a slow mood

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that was one of my four movies i loved that movie i like it too i think it's fun adriana has laughed the hardest i've ever heard her laugh recently watching that movie right the last city city of is that immortal instruments i think so right the first one so another so another one another sibling romance another fake sibling romance romance 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 know and they save each other okay beautiful i i like it when it's like it is you know he's really powerful and he's obsessed with her and he's gonna save her with anything but i don't like it too much when the the female character is like too weak or something like that or blah blah i like her to be a little bit like shave or shelf 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 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 fuck 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 ever said what are we gonna do now women always have the plan and the next thing involved it's like period reese she's like look out for you'll hear it everywhere now 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 i want her to be that strong as strong as we are and still find love and and a happy ending and maybe she saves herself but also you can use a little bit of help because with tangledled she had already made the decision to change her life. He just showed up and she grabbed the opportunity.
So there I say she rescued herself. No hate to those who want a strong somebody to come save them as well.
I could use one of them now. That's what I'm saying.
I want to find love too. I love if a big boy busted in here help save me from youtube you know yep what the hell do we do 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 there are those times when i like to feel like not tiny but like taken care of protected i'm just so you know i'm gonna and then i man i'm like i'm so tiny thank you for helping me save my you know so i think there's that balance and it's okay to like that to feel that way 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 where are we putting this i 10? I could honestly go with 10 on this one, too.
I could go 10. I'll go 10.
10. When the woman, I mean.
When the woman. When the woman.
When the woman. When.
Say what you just. When the.
Speak up. 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 aylen ashriver galathinius she did that all herself what y'all know about what y'all know she did that all herself that was all up here She was 10,000 steps ahead.

Y'all know how you file this for real.

No, I'll cry.

Cut that out spoiler if you haven't read those books yet go read it yeah you should have read it by now it's been vital for years yeah go read it get after it for real so you can be in on these conversations and understand yeah you're missing out key info yeah

which really i'm chiller about revealing stuff with agritar but throwing a glass i think people should really experience yeah right right okay you know next one we have left oh my gosh okay one two and five rankings one two and five are left to rank oh no here we go i'll read this one Secret billionaire.

Secret billionaire.

Secret billionaire.

They don't even need to be secret.

I love them just billionaires boys club crazy rich asians 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 too i would love that that's cool with me 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 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 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 but also a little interesting I'd be a little mad that from her for you've been together for a year ready to marry her and you're gonna keep that from her and obviously she's gonna find out once you take her to Singapore yeah 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 during when she went on that um the girls the girls trip and they leave like the dead fish in her bed and he was like chill about it yeah and then she might better be raging she forgave him way too easy for that half-assed response but speaking of that where's book where's movie two where's movie number two are they ever gonna make that don't care i don't know if they need to it's such a perfect movie when i'm like would the sequel live up i probably not but still good i do love secret billionaire but i think it's five i think it's five too okay i don't think i read it if there are any secret billionaires, hit a girl up.

Hit some girls up.

But also, how did you get your money?

Yeah, was it ethical?

Yeah, probably not.

Probably not.

Should we make it 10 then?

No.

No, we already have.

Five.

Okay, five.

Okay, here we go.

Yes!

And we still love ours.

They can't stand each other,

but they can't stay away.

God, these are good.

Agitar, you've got mail.

When Harry Met Sally.

You've got mail.

He fully put her into unemployment, though.

No.

I don't know.

Yeah, I don't really mess with that one.

Agitar's great.

Love that.

I can't believe it.

And Iron.

Why do I not know the name of this book?

Fourth Wing.

Fourth Wing. That was kind of enemies to lovers.
Yeah. Absolutely right there's i feel like there's always kind of little enemy but then you know in real life it's just not really a realistic trope no and they do the real life ones like ali hazelwood will write uh um uh an enemies to lover not bad yeah yeah it's kind of like okay a bit of a stretch but okay yeah it doesn't really make sense but you saw the thing that was like if you like enemies to lovers so much you 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 like see you as the enemy and then still love you despite it like wow okay interesting in spite of yeah but like love it right that's another good example there's so many and Ash, it's kind of a second book.
Yeah, a lot of fantasy. You could even say...
A lot of fantasy to enemies to lovers. Throne of glass.
Throne of glass, enemies to lovers. So many times, actually.
He punched her in the face. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He said that he should be better if you had died. Maybe it would have been better if you had died.
Yeah, yeah. I recently reread that.
Pride and Prejudice, enemies to lovers. Were they enemies or did she just not like them? Well, he didn't like her from the, remember he said those comments? I would say it's enemies to lovers.
That's enemies to lovers. Emma.
Well, because they get, they don't like each other for a minute. Because he says that you're, you're too much of like in everyone's business.
I'm, I'm going number one, enemies to lovers. 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 number one here we go last one elona read it yeah yeah 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 izzy and all c is also a fake relationship one oh yeah they pretend to be dating so the pen and i love that a lot of kindle unlimited a lot of kindle unlimited fake relationship stuff but to all the boys i loved before is was such a moment in time 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 and it was just like such a good feeling i gotta watch that one again because haven't they made like three other movies yeah and i didn't yeah they've made like movies at least two others i think yeah i thought it was.
What are you talking about? Noah Centineo.

A good book one is Funny Story Emily Henry.

Yes, yes, yes, yes.

She gets dumped pretty much before her wedding by her fiance,

who goes with his like childhood best friend.

And so then the childhood best friend had to dump her boyfriend.

And our protagonist had to find a place to live. Turns out there's a room open in his apartment.
So then 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.
Emily Henry loves a protagonist that's a book nerd. She loves a book nerd.
She's a librarian in that, huh? Yep, she's a librarian in that one. Or like editor so it's an editor yeah writer yeah bookstore owners all that all that jazz agent 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 figuration number two we killed that we killed that i was really nervous all the way through because if we had saved a spot for uh pregnancy we would have messed up let's all let's just go over what it is yeah pregnancy trope pregnancy trope is where pregnancy surprise pregnancy trope a lot of times they have a one-night stand and then she gets pregnant and then it's like or she wakes up feeling sick and you're like god she's vomiting god no boring what want to see other stuff because then it overtakes the entire plot yeah of where you thought it was gonna go and all of a sudden it's like now it's about to be about this yeah and i feel like it's a sometimes it feels like a cop-out to truly developing like the characters in the relationship the love is then directed at this child and that bringing them together instead of them as people.
The only time it was okay? Breaking Dawn. That's the only time.
Is that a pregnancy trope? She gets pregnant, so kind of. 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.
I hate when that happened. Wow.
And I will say it it's different than like because sometimes i do read a book where it's um he doesn't know that she got pregnant and maybe it was like a mis like it was a one night stand and then she didn't get his like contact information and so then i love the reveal when he was like okay so this guy sucks for 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 this is it's like true because it's the entire book of like them they of course fall in love and he becomes the dad of course i hate miscommunication like i said as someone who over communicates just do that right because again it's like a right person you can't say the wrong thing i don't know maybe do you believe that i don't know Kinda. If it's 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.

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, you'll be able

to work through it, I guess.

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.

But I don't judge you for it. It was funny.
I was like tell them to cut that no she's fine no that's fine that's funny like that's not the wrong thing she's practically 50 thanks so much for coming over to the house of mar a wave original presented by the new samsung galaxy s25 ultra be sure to watch and subscribe on youtube and listen wherever you get your podcasts plus follow the show on social media at house of mar for clips and bts content

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