I hated Pride and Prejudice when I was younger but I’ve grown to love it now. Which book did you experience the enemies to lovers trope with?

I personally hated the characters especially Mr.Darcy (what a crime). But, now that I think back to it, I was probably put off by the language more as then, I wasn’t used to English. So, I’d like to know if you too did not like a book but warmed up to it later.

  • galactic-disk@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I really could not get into The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern when I started it, but it completely had me by the end. Also, I read The Great Gatsby in high school and thought it was the dumbest thing ever, but after reading a historical-fantasy-sapphic retelling, I came to appreciate the source material a little bit more.

  • _Fun_Employed_@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Anne McCaffrey’s Catternai or Freedom series.

    James Rollins Sigma Force books.

    I think that’s it that I can really think of.

    I see the trope more in shows.

    Oh that just reminded me, Game of Thrones. Yeah, that has it some.

  • stockholm__syndrome@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Read Wuthering Heights for school and though it was insufferable, a tedious book about awful people. Read it again much later and they’re still awful people. But the book also has so much to say about generational trauma and the way that people are haunted by mistakes, yet seemingly unable to free themselves from the same cycles of abuse that perpetuate their pain. Really came to love all the Brontë works, honestly.