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✨Any Trope But You✨
By @victorialavinewrites

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I’m not sure that I can do this book justice in my review but I’m going to try!!

It is clever, witty, funny, spicy and has a depth to it that you wouldn’t expect from a rom com. You feel connected to these characters almost immediately. She built out their back stories so well. I felt like they were friends who I had known for years. I was invested in their HEA from the beginning.

I truly believe that Victoria is the next Emily Henry, the next Carly Fortune, the next Katherine Center, the next Abby Jimenez, the next great romance author. I’m already counting the days until I can read her next book!

🦞Heads up to all my Maine friends, Victoria is one of us!

Thank you to @netgalley and @atriabooks for this advanced reader copy and @victorialavinewrites for the physical copy to hold in my hands!

📚Any Trope but You by Victoria Lavine

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Victoria is my new favorite author. She carefully crafted a trope-y full rom-com with humor, heart, and heat (oh my goodness, the spicy scenes were spicy but so beautifully written)❤️‍🔥🥵. The writing and plot in Any Trope but You blew my mind away, and I wish the story didn’t have to end.

From the first time Margot and Forrest meet, their chemistry is outstanding, and their banter is organic. (Forrest is my new fictional boyfriend). The secondary character cast is excellent and has a great reason to be there, including the 🫎. And I love it when the book comes full circle when the end mirrors the beginning.

I could gush about this book for hours. Please pre-order this book (the release date is April 1, 2025). You will not regret it.
I can’t wait to read Victoria’s next novel.

This novel is for you if you love dual-POV, mega hot/strong/kind MMC, friend moose, and tropes:

🥰 Cutest meet cute (is a trope 🧐?)
🙅‍♀️ Sworn off relationships
👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨 Strangers to lovers
🏕️ Only one tent
😱 Damsel in distress
❤️‍🩹 Injury
💘(a bit of) Love triangle
❄️ Snowy Alaska (it is not a trope, but it should be🧐)
And much more. Oh gosh, this novel has so many more tropes that it will satisfy 99.9% of romance readers.


Thank you, Atria Books and NetGalley, for this ARC.

Okay, at first I thought this was going to be a little bit too cheesy and tacky, and couldn’t have possibly said trope more, and as cheesy and overkill as it was, it’s also perfection and I tore through it in two days. What a sweet book that cuts to the heart, with a bit of spicy too. I would definitely recommend! The cheesy lines fit perfectly as the main character, a romance author, finds her fantastical romance stories coming true in real life.

Thank you Atria Books and Net Galley for allowing me the privilege of reading this book for my honest review.

Good thing this book is set in Alaska, because it is hot, hot, hot!

Margot is a beloved romance writer whose list of Happily NEVER Afters is leaked to her fans during a livestream. After the humiliation of the situation, her younger sister Savannah sends her to an Alaskan wilderness resort in the hopes of her regaining confidence in her writing and herself. It also helps that the resort owner's son is the epitome of a romance novel love interest.

This book is beautifully written, especially from a keen emotional standpoint of author Victoria Lavine. Margot has always felt the need to protect her chronically ill sister, whose character is a Taylor Swift-loving, force to be reckoned with and whom you can't help but love. The sister relationship is written with care, and tugs at the heartstrings of anyone who is fortunate enough to have a sibling of their own. The author doesn't diminish a sick character, but rather bolsters them as a whole person instead of being defined by their illness.

Now let's get to the chemistry between the two leads, because WOW. I doubt any reader will look at a sauna the same way after reading this book, in the best way possible. Margot and Forrest force each other to see themselves in a way they haven't before, and form a bond that makes their connection even stronger.

A book that will have you reading late into the night, Atria Books has a hit on their hands with Any Trope but You.

Thank you to NetGalley and Atria Books for the opportunity to read this book for free in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you, Net Galley for an ARC of Any Trope but You. This book could totally be turned into a Hallmark movie, although it may be a little more spicy than Hallmark allows.

Margot, a romance writer, heads to remote Alaska to work on her next book. While there she meets Forrest, and together they hit ALL of the tropes that Margot has written before.

I loved the outdoorsy Alaska element, the family relationships, and the interactions between Margot & Forrest.

First of all, thank you NetGalley and publishers for an ARC of this book. Since goodreads doesn’t allow for half stars in the rating, I will let yall know that this was a 4.25-4.5 star book for me! I loved the concept- a romance author shunned by her fans takes a trip to Alaska in order to write something new. Of course, she runs into the grumpy lodge owner and sparks start to fly.

I loved the atmosphere of the book, the Alaskan scenes were so immersive and fun to read about. And for a romance novel, the side plot was well-thought out and executed. Oh, and the spice was SPICING! It wasn’t thrown in there just because, it served a purpose of bringing the two main characters together.

If you are looking for a fun rom-com for the upcoming winter, definitely check this out!!

I received an ARC from NetGalley for Any Trope but You. I absolutely adored this book. It was slightly predictable but in a ‘can’t stop watching this Hallmark movie’ type of way. It was fun, interesting, quirky, and full of the best type of swooning. It was a fun read with some underlying heavy and vulnerable themes. The references to pop culture- hello Taylor Swift and even Michael Bolton (!)- were so cute and added such a fun vibe to the book. It’s rare that I give a book five stars but I absolutely loved it. Definitely add to your 2025 must read list!

Are you kidding me? This was one of the absolute cutest books I've read in a long time. Absolute perfection, literally no notes.

I never laugh out loud at books (or even comedy specials - drives my husband nuts) but I laughed out loud in so many parts. There was so much wit in this book, and was like a love letter to romance fans that I loved. I can totally see this being a movie.

Margot and Forrest have the best chemistry, but I also laughed that Forrest had every exaggerated and perfect characteristic of a male main character in a romance novel, but still having depth to him. And the way you can see him fall in love with Margot was swoonworthy. And the spicy scenes were so good, the sauna? omg. It seemed very organic.

I sometimes am slow to read my Netgalley books, but I picked it up right away because of Savannah's character. I too have a lot of autoimmune conditions, and the description of her was accurate. I would have liked to know what she has, but it probably was intentionally vague since autoimmune conditions can hit everyone different. I always love to see the representation!

Normally I wait to write reviews, but I wrote it right after so this is a bit chaotic. But that's how excited I was to review this book!

The ultimate book of romcom tropes!!

I loved the setting of the remote Alaskan cabins and how the owners made the guests feel like family. Margot and Forest were fun and emotional main characters. Both are primary caregivers for a family member, they understand wanting to be home to be with their person and both struggle in romantic relationships for that reason.

After an unexpected career turn for Margot she finds herself completely out of her comfort zone and in Alaska for an extended period of time at the resort Forrest and his father run. I just feel like they are the perfect match for each other and i’m obsessed 🥲 Their chemistry and banter was chefs kiss!!

Thank you so much netgalley for the opportunity to early read!! 🫶🏻

I really enjoyed this debut novel by Victoria Lavine. She nailed all the romance tropes, and it really is true that romance readers are really the best people. If the main character, Margot, was a real author, I would be a fan. I enjoyed Margot’s growth as a character and loved how we got to know her through her sister’s letters. Her relationship with the lead love interest, Forrest, is a natural progression and not forced. Lots of tropes were hit between Margot and Forrest but two of my faves were slow burn and enemies-to-lovers. I can’t wait to read whatever Victoria Lavine creates next. PS Definitely check out the acknowledgments at the end of the book. I always find you can learn so much about an author in the acknowledgements and I am glad for Lavine’s vulnerability in sharing her breast cancer diagnosis.

I really liked this book. I thought the premise of Margot encountering all the tropes she writes about but doesn’t believe in was so fun. I enjoyed Margot and Forrest’s relationship and how they gravitated towards each other despite their efforts to maintain their distance. The familial relationships were strong in this story, which is always a nice bonus. I liked seeing the importance of family and the sacrifices required for it. I would have given it five stars but the ending wasn’t my favorite. I knew what to expect with the conflict at the end, and while I appreciate what the author had to do given the importance of their families, I’m sad to see everything that Forrest sacrificed. I know in the real world not everything works out perfectly for all the characters but I would have loved to see everything with his research work out the way he envisioned.

I loved this book! It was hilarious and sweet and felt like homage to what makes romances so wonderful. Forrest is every trope but also grumpy. Margot no longer believes in finding a HEA… will she find hers?

A big thank you to NetGalley and Atria Books for the ARC.

This book made me laugh and cry and Victoria Lavine is going on my MUST READ list. The dialogue was great. The characters had their own issues, but the growth that took place was wonderful. I wished we had seen more Bullwinkle, but it's all good!

Thank you NetGalley for the ark!!!

Fun, love, easy read!!
I enjoyed this one a lot and can’t wait to read more by this author

This book was cute- albeit a bit blah. The idea that it took all of the classic “tropes” and put it together was super enticing to me. But overall I didn’t feel myself being pulled into the book. I didn’t feel a big connection to the FMC (or the MMC for that matter) and I think that’s what took me out of it. I know being cliche was the whole point of the book, but instead of being excited by all the cliche’s I was just like “oh okay.”
This one wasn’t my favorite, but however I be interested in reading her next books and see how she progresses as an author.

I think the premise of this book was cute, but it wasn't really for me. The main character felt very defensive a lot of the time for really no reason. It made it hard to like her and get invested. I also didn't really feel the chemistry between the two main characters. And the whole "you're just a romance trope in real life!" Was just a bit too much, even though I understand that was the entire premise of the book.

This was so adorable!! I loved reading about Alaska and the many tropes in this book were amazing. Margot and Forrest were an adorable couple and I loved their banter

Enjoyed the characters, the acknowledgement of the tropes and the caretaker aspect - especially both directions. Enjoyed Alaska backdrop and wished it dove a little more into it.

“Reinvention doesn’t come for free, and it definitely doesn’t come with room service. It’s born out of pushing yourself to the limit after you’ve already endured the worst thing in your life”.


Victoria, my GIRL . You get it! I’ve been waiting to meet a character like Margot for awhile, and this book just blew my mind. It made me laugh and also made me want to reach out to authors that I admire and just tell them I appreciate them. Chapter One made me respect Margot. She’s real, we understand her point of view right away, and you know what? She doesn’t sit on a pedestal. Her voice is clear, and as a reader I credit that entirely to Victoria. Babes, you’ve got me as a reader FOR LIFE.

This book often made me stop and think, how do authors approach love (in all of its forms) in their lives? How does that transfer in their writing? Also I wonder how many authors actually have ‘Happily Never After’ files in their computers? Cause now, I wanna read them. Argh, SO GOOD.

Throw in the moose shenanigans (I love Bullwinkle), diving into the nature of Alaska, and my guy Forest (this is a dual POV book and Victoria does it wonderfully). This book hit me differently, (October is Breast Cancer Awareness month in Canada), and the urgency in the research field to take one step closer to a cure is real. Forest and Margot unexpectedly took me by surprise in a very good way. Caregiving for loved ones, and the relationships cultivated throughout the book were so well executed. The letters between the sisters, reminiscing on the past while also nudging growth demonstrate the beauty of sisterhood. But the highlight has to be the effortless banter. It zings, you feel the energy, and it moves the story along at a good pace.

Thank you so much Atria Books and NetGalley for providing an ARC. Definitely keep an eye out for this book out next year April 2025.

I love meta-books like this that play on genres of books within the storyline itself. This one, focusing on romance tropes, is really powerful in the way it calls out and shows appreciation for some of the classic rom-com tropes we know and love.
What I appreciated about this book was the dual-character narration that really gave insight into the characters but also seemed really cohesive throughout. There were cool side characters and the absolute sweetest family relationships. Margot and her sister have the best relationship and all of their interactions were super heartwarming. Forrest and his father had another lovely relationship as well. Family, and familial obligations, play a really large underlining theme in the novel -- something I really resonated with and appreciated. There's bits of humor mixed in with the sweetness/sadness, though I would have enjoyed some more to mix things up.
I think this novel just exudes honest and pure love, not just romance. Between friends, siblings, parents, etc - there's just a lot of love shown and a lot of ways (all different but accepted) shown as well. I liked how the tensions seemed more realistic with chronic illness and old age, but ultimately, it did fit perfectly into this generation/era's romance novel mold (yet still a bit meta).

Thank you to NetGalley and Atria Books for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review!