IfonlyIwasfunnier

IfonlyIwasfunnier t1_j2a90vk wrote

Reply to I just can’t with the forced romances in mysteries and thrillers! They are so ridiculous by ginnygrakie

Maybe I am just too cynical about real life lovestories, but to me it seems like there is a lot of truth behind the thoughts: Proximity makes love and a lack of options lowers standards everytime.

I am more annoyed with plot devices showing up on different geographical conveniences. "Well you were gone for a few days longer than expected so I jumped into a plane, travelled across half the globe and detectivitated my ass into your life´s story to deliver that final missing clue...by accident"

But as far as lovestories go, I would literally just look at lovestories from normal teenagers and be amazed if you find any that would actually lend themselves to be a readable romance story. Same with the sex thing...I mean, I don´t like it either, but even knowing how it works irl it is always pretty darn hard to imagine why some people for example always come back together with their abusive exes, of course they are stupid and illogical and don´t deserve better until you fall into the same pit and realize the same principles would apply even to most "normal" people all the same. Most normal people are not any smarter than the stupidest idiots, they just usually have a few more safety stops (possibilities) in their given surroundings that´ll catch them before the fall.

So really, is it good bookmaterial? No, hell no, unless it is...but could it happen irl? Ye, most likely it could. Not to everyone but probably to everyone under the right circumstances. Books should always be allowed to be as stupid as reality. It is a bit of a problem when the author doesn´t seem to have the intent to show that, when it is just a trope that has to appeal to a certain audience, because then it is just not my kind of book. I am not interested in stupid plots like that. But if done deliberately...ye I still don´t like it but then I don´t need to blame it, most likely it would either be tied into a plotpoint later down the line or I would simply have to applaud it for describing real life as pitiful as it truly is. So it matters more to me with what kind of intent stuff like that is written. And obviously if the rest of the book makes up for it. If it just describes life as it is then it is probably too depressing for me. (Like said, maybe I am a tad bit cynical...)

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