When fake-dating gets added to the mix, I groaned. When protagonist Ever runs into a handsome quarterback immediately, I braced myself for a cringefest. This thing is packed with classic romcom tropes, and if that’s your thing, you’ll probably love Loveboat, Taipei. This takes me back to the whole “romances gotta romance” thing. You think this sounds bad? I WILL READ IT AND LOVE IT. Plus, there’s a defensive part of me that kicks in when anyone talks down about something. I love #ownvoices novels, and I’ve been actively trying to find more books with Asian-American protagonists. Admittedly her description had a few elements completely wrong, but the gist was right. At least in the case of Loveboat, Taipei by Abigail Hing Wen, there were extenuating circumstances.Ī friend was supposed to read this for her bookclub and was really dragging her feet when she described it to me, I thought it sounded good. I don’t know if I expect to find one that breaks the genre open for me or what. Despite this, though, I keep reading them. Obviously there are some exceptions, but most of the time romances don’t reach me. I like romantic storylines in books that are primarily focused elsewhere, but if the novel is primarily a romance, I usually end up rolling my eyes or shaking my head in disbelief. I don’t like romances, and I know this about myself.
At this point in my life-I’m 26 and have been an obsessive reader since I learned how to do it-I should know that romances gotta romance.
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