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title: "Books With Benefits"
url: https://bookswithbenefitspod.com/
description: "A reading magazine about romance and fantasy fiction: trope vocabulary, series structure, reading formats and book club practice."
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# Books With Benefits

Tropes & Terms

## [Tropes: a working glossary](https://bookswithbenefitspod.com/tropes-a-working-glossary)

A trope is a pattern readers recognise before a book explains it. Naming the pattern is the fastest way to describe a story to someone else.