Author: Fives @ Down The Rabbit Hole

An avid reader whose current interest lies in mysteries and thrillers. Line 'em up! Also personally love fantasies and any stories to do with magic, and a sucker for the occasional (good) romance.
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Let’s Talk Bookish – Do Tropes Count as Spoiilers?

Fives @ Down The Rabbit Hole

Aria @ Book Nook Bits is the new host for Let’s Talk Bookish! If you aren’t following her yet, good check out her blog and give her a follow!

March 22: Do Tropes Count As Spoilers?

Prompts: A lot of the time, books will be promoted on social media books with their tropes. For example, a book might be advertised as being enemies to lovers, having found family, or starring a ‘chosen one’. Can those tropes be spoilers, giving away parts of the plot? What do you think about marketing books based on tropes?

Welcome to another week of LTB here at DTRH, everyone! Today’s topic is about common tropes, and whether they are basically spoilers. This is an interesting topic that I hadn’t thought about specifically in this perspective. I do consider the tropes of a book a lot as advertised before choosing to read it, but do you all ever see it as a spoiler?

In order to get people interested in a book, it must be promoted and advertised by their tropes. It could one or a combination of the many many romantic tropes, or it could be classic tale retold, or a combination of classic tales retold. Even on the back cover, a lot of other writers will often describe books…using other books! Are these spoilers in some way?

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Review: A Curse for True Love by Stephanie Garber

Fives @ Down The Rabbit Hole

Once Upon a Broken Heart #3

Two villains, one girl, and a deadly battle for happily ever after.

Evangeline Fox ventured to the Magnificent North in search of her happy ending, and it seems as if she has it. She’s married to a handsome prince and lives in a legendary castle. But Evangeline has no idea of the devastating price she’s paid for this fairytale. She doesn’t know what she has lost, and her husband is determined to make sure she never finds out . . . but first he must kill Jacks, the Prince of Hearts.

Blood will be shed, hearts will be stolen, and true love will be put to the test in A Curse for True Love, the breathlessly anticipated conclusion to the Once Upon A Broken Heart trilogy.

And finally we have it, the finale (see what I did there) of the Once Upon a Broken Heart series, the cousin of the Caraval series, coming to an end. As you can probably already tell by my rating, I was just a little bit disappointed how it all came to an end. I wish there was more explained, and in general the last book was a lot shorter than I thought it would be, for a book that would end a trilogy.

A Curse for True Love is the final part of the trilogy revolving around essentially what is the love story of Evangeline Fox, as she is torn between a real-life fairytale prince, or the feelings she gets whenever she sees Jacks, even though she remembers nothing about him. If she has always wanted her fairytale ending, why does her happily ever after seem like it’s not quite enough? And in that case, what is it that she’s forgotten but perhaps actually wants?

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Let’s Talk Bookish – Book Covers

Fives @ Down The Rabbit Hole

Aria @ Book Nook Bits is the new host for Let’s Talk Bookish! If you aren’t following her yet, good check out her blog and give her a follow!

March 15:  Book Covers (Davida Chazan)

Prompts: Do you ever get a book with a beautiful cover that is way better than the book itself? Or book covers that really just don’t fit the books? Some books have lots of different covers, for different countries and special editions. Are there any books with some great covers and some terrible ones?

Welcome back to another week of LTB here at DTRH, everyone! Today’s book is all about beautiful book covers, which I think resonates with most of us here in the community. Who doesn’t like a nice cover to go with a good story?

There are many times where a book with a beautiful cover is frankly just better than the story itself. That being said, I can see the use of having beautiful books with okay stories on your shelf just to serve as either a decoration piece or even a coffee table book. That’s for sure the danger of buying books solely based on a cover and a synopsis. However, even if I’m not the most impressed by the story, it’s usually not a regret to have purchased the book. I think there’s some intrinsic joy of just owning and looking at a pretty book, and I’ll stand by that.

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