Welcome to Fated Mates, everyone.

I'm Jen Reads Romance.

I talk about books on Twitter with my friend Sarah.

Here she is.

Sarah McLean.

I write romance novels.

I read romance novels.

I talk about them a whole lot.

So what we're up to today is talking about one of our favorite tropes, a beloved trope by many, which is like fake engagement or fake relationship. I mean,

Jen, every third book that is out right now is a fake engagement book.

I feel like Talia Hebert is responsible for this in some way.

Like she writes a great fake engagement and like I really believe that she might be responsible

for this.

All right.

I'm down with that.

One of the things that's really interesting and to sort of set the

stage because i think a question that we all have is like well why why this trope right like what is

it about this trope that sort of rings everybody's bell for lack of a better word and one i thought

a really interesting um i'm sure a lot of people follow Anna. Oh, boy,

I'm not going to say her name right, which I feel terrible. Anna Coquy, she has a, maybe it's

Koki. I'm not sure. Ah, I meant to ask her. I'm sorry. Anyway, she does a whole thing. She started

a whole like rom-book love, which was like a month of romance prompts about beloved romance tropes.

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