Which one did Bujold do? (Only read Cordelia's Honor, haven't read the Miles books).
Agreed - the combination of two of them...ugh. But the problem is in part the overuse, I think. I liked each of these tropes initially or when I first encountered them, but they've been done to death now. So I see all the problems.
I want to blame Stephanie Meyer - who somehow managed to combine all six of the above tropes, along with the rape trope, in her Twilight novels...yet still sold millions. The mind boggles. So as a result, we have all these professional copy-cats.
But, to be fair, I think they may have been hitting the saturation point before Meyer, Meyer just sort of threw them over the cliff...well Meyer, and her followers or copy-cats.
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Agreed - the combination of two of them...ugh. But the problem is in part the overuse, I think. I liked each of these tropes initially or when I first encountered them, but they've been done to death now. So I see all the problems.
I want to blame Stephanie Meyer - who somehow managed to combine all six of the above tropes, along with the rape trope, in her Twilight novels...yet still sold millions. The mind boggles. So as a result, we have all these professional copy-cats.
But, to be fair, I think they may have been hitting the saturation point before Meyer, Meyer just sort of threw them over the cliff...well Meyer, and her followers or copy-cats.