Blogging Challenge: Truly Thrilling Tropes


This week on Long and Short Reviews' Weekly Wednesday Blogging Challenge, the theme is your favorite tropes from the genre of your choosing.  My genre is going to be mystery (thriller, psychological suspense, etc.).

1. Unreliable narrator
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I love an unreliable narrator. A narrator who is an alcoholic who blacks out, is mentally unstable, or has something to hide is such fun!  They set you up to be surprised with how things turned out because their account of events can't really be trusted.  I also love a great anti-hero (similar in concept, but an unreliable narrator is sometimes the bad guy).

2. Everyone's a suspect
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When everyone has a motive - I think that is so much fun!  Murder on the Orient Express is a great example of a great book that does this.  I also just watched the movie Knives Out and everyone is a suspect in that one too.  It makes it so much harder to figure out whodunit!! 

3. Locked room mystery
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In a locked room (house, etc.) mystery usually everyone is a suspect as well, but we know that it has to be ONE OF YOU!  Another classic whodunit trope that I absolutely love!

4. Unsolved mystery
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As in like a cold case.  There's a mystery and no one has been able to solve it until Detective so-and-so comes across new evidence... duh duh duh!  Finally, justice!

5. Twist ending
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I love a good twist!  I am actually pretty disappointed when there is not a neck-breaking twist toward the end of a book.  I read a book a while back that was pretty good in every other regard, but I thought when they found the bad guy, it wasn't really going to be him...  But it was.  And I was like, really?  That's all?  It wasn't actually the psychologist?  Or the detective?  ...What a letdown.  

What are your favorite tropes?? 

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Comments

  1. I love all of those tropes, too, but twist endings are the best. It's so much fun when you don't see them coming but then can later on go back and pick up a few clues that you missed. :)

    My <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-my-favourite-science-fiction-tropes/”>post</a>.

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    1. I agree! A really GOOD twist can make a book!

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  2. These are great! Especially the locked room mystery because I can't ever figure those out. Hahaha.

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    1. I love the locked room mysteries, too, because I feel like the suspense is so amped up because the killer is there with them!

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  3. Hit the nail on the head. http://pmprescott.blogspot.com/2020/08/wc-080520.html

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  4. I don't read a lot of straight mysteries, but I love when there are mystery elements in other things. And a well-done twist - even at the 2/3 point rather than the end, well... when it's done well, it's just amazing.

    My answer is here.

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  5. Yes to all of these, the book I’m reading just now has number 1 as the protagonist, I’m excited to see where it goes!

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    1. I love an unreliable narrator because if they're leading you down the rabbit hole, it makes it even harder to guess what's coming! :)

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  6. Nice! I love the twist endings, too. I'm terrible about figuring out the mystery, so it's more fun when there's a twist. Great list!

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    1. I love it when I think I have it figured out and then - nope! Plot twist! That is the best.

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  7. I love a good twist, but they're getting more and more difficult to catch me. If I see one more film where they turn out to be dead at the end, I'll scream.

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    1. I agree, a lot of twists have been done and thus are now predictable, unfortunately. Thanks for stopping by, Tanith! :)

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