This week on Word Wranglers,
we're talking about tropes. When the week started, I had no idea what a
trope was, so I asked. I was relieved to find out I wasn't the only one who
was clueless. There's a lot of them out there. Secret babies, arranged
marriages, marriage of convenience, and my favorite, forbidden fruit. Since
Margie talked about that one yesterday (you should check it out, it was great)
I won't go there today. I'll move on to
my next favorite. Fated lovers.
Fated
lovers is why I'm a lover of fairy tales
and paranormals. Remember Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Beauty and the Beast?
All of them were fated lover stories. Then you have fated lover movies. Serendipity
is my favorite of all time. It took years for the hero to get with heroine, but
in the end, it all worked out. Just the way it was supposed to.
When it
comes to books, Sherrilyn Kenyon trumps it for me. Most of her characters are
fated to be together.
Believe
it or not, I like fated lovers because of the villains that keep the lovers
apart. A dragon, a witche's curse, angry Greek gods and goddesses, and in the case of Serendipity, the villain
was everyday life. I thought that was brilliant!
Okay,
bear with me because I'm about to get sappy here, call the sap police. I
believe hubby and I are fated. We met and married in Korea when we both were in
our very early twenties. After a two month courtship, we got married. What we
didn't know was we had met before, in the third grade. I was born and lived in
Washington DC until my family moved to Dayton, Ohio when I was in the fourth
grade. When I went to hubby's home to meet his parents, I found his third grade
yearbook on a bookcase in his room. Guess who was in his third grade class? Me!
We've been married 24 years this past August.
What about
you? Do you like fated lovers? Do you have a fated lovers story? Share!
BTW, Dreamers is a fated lovers story :)
I love that story! It's obvious you two were fated. I think I'm reading one of those right now in Pam Morsi's THE LOVESICK CURE. It's wonderful!
ReplyDeleteGoing to have to check it out!Glad I got hubby. He was engaged 4 times before he met me. Glad the others didn't work out.
Deletethat's awesome, Shawn! Congrats to you and hubby!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Kristi!
DeleteI love your story, Shawn! It's so nice! I think we all learned something about tropes this week! Whoot!!
ReplyDeleteWe did learn something. And I have a new wrod to add to my vocabulary!
DeleteI like fated lovers stories as well! I feel for the characters when they are apart and rejoice when they are finally together!
ReplyDeleteMe too. I love finding out how they work things out.
DeleteI love that story. Congratulations on finding your soulmate.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Ella. BTW, I love your name. Ella is the heroine in my latest wip
DeleteI believe my hubby and I were fated, too. Just too many things driving us both towards the place and time we'd meet. We were engaged after two weeks. A great trope!
ReplyDeleteI love it when a couple knows they were meant to be from the begining!
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