It’s not surprising that I have an opinion about the worst romantic cliches. In my day job, I’m often thinking about sweet contemporary romance tropes, and as a recovering workaholic, I’m planning to read a lot more romance—all genres, especially historical and paranormal—on my own time again. However, it’s no more than that: a personal opinion. And because so much
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