I was drawn to this book because there is a moose on the cover, as moose are one of my favorite animals. That and a romance taking place in Alaska checked the boxes of things I love. A lot of other boxes were checked too, in this book being the recipe for a romance book, following all the tropes imaginable. This book was an adorable read, that just brought enjoyable and good feelings.

Margot, a well reclaimed romance writer, who gave up on happily ever afters, spends 6 weeks in Alaska trying to reinvent herself, determined to write a murder mystery. There, she has the perfect meet cute with the lodge's owner, Forrest, where her time there was too good to be true, with every trope possible coming to life.

I have to say I'm pretty skeptical when books mention Taylor Swift. I usually don't like how she is portrayed or the context she is written in. In Any Trope But You, I loved how she written as the aspiration and motivation Margot used to reinvent herself, if Taylor could do it, she could do it.

Thank you NetGalley and Atria Books for an eARC of this book in exchange for my honest opinion!

Bestselling romance author Margot Bradley escapes to a remote Alaskan resort after her private diary containing rewritten, unhappy endings to her most beloved characters is released, turning fans against her. A Happily Ever After is the last thing on her mind, yet she can’t seem to resist the pull toward Dr. Forrest Wakefield, the human embodiment of every romance reader’s (and author’s) dreams.

ANY TROPE BUT YOU delivers exactly what it promises: an open love letter to romance readers that playfully pokes fun at beloved tropes while offering a laugh out loud, feel good escape. I especially enjoyed the combination of sarcasm, snark, and banter. ATBY had my kind of humor! Though I appreciated how many romance tropes were woven into the story with a meta twist, the overall sweetness felt a little too Hallmark for my liking. Note: this is a personal preference…the execution does exactly what it sets out to do. ATBY is a solid debut, I look forward to reading more from this author.

I recommend this book to romance readers who enjoy:
+ books about books
+ an ode to romance readers & the bookish community
+ outdoor adventures and stepping outside your comfort zone
+ MCs who would do anything for the people they love

Thank you Atria Books for providing this book for review consideration via NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily. Thank you, to NetGalley and the publisher, Atria Books, for the opportunity to read this book.

This book was a solid 4 stars for me. It is absolutely as it says, that it is a love letter to romance books. I dropped a star solely because I felt that the book was too long. The premise, the plot, and the characters were all great and I enjoyed them, but there just could have been maybe 100 less pages and it would have made it a phenomenal book for me. The excursions were absolutely hilarious, Savannah is literally the best sister ever, and Forrest is the kind of grump that you cannot help but fall in love with, because deep down, he is one of the single most caring humans.

The bond that Forrest and Margot forge because of their shared commonality of being caregivers to others who are chronically ill is beautiful and my favorite part of this story. I have been a caregiver in the past and it is not easy for the one being cared for, the caregiver, and those around them. This was depicted accurately and eloquently in this book and I am grateful for that.

I recommend this book to those who love a good rom-com with an emotional sub-plot that ends with a beautifully written Happily Ever After.

This was a decent read but I will say the FMC was balancing on a thin line of me being extremely frustrated a few times as a reader. I loved the story being set in Alaska and that kept me intrigued through the book. Overall, this was a fun read.

This was a cute rom-com. It wasn't exceptionally angsty, but it followed all the steps that I need for a romance. The characters were likable and I liked how the author threw in so many common tropes, hence the name of the book.

Okay yall this one was so much FUN! Margot is a romance author so she's no stranger to tropes, and she is suddenly surrounded by them when she arrives in Alaska to escape some real bad PR and get her writing career back on track.
The super hot (huge, slightly grumpy) resort owner (oh BTW he's also a doctor and the resort chef) is a walking trope and no matter what she does, he and his romcom-worthy personality keep inserting themselves into her retreat.
I loooved the twist on a typical romcom here, and every time Margot pointed out something that would normally make my eyes roll (don't you DARE give me a cute nickname), I was eating it up instead and I couldn't get enough.
On a deeper level, both Margot and Forrest are living their lives as caretakers first and everything else second, and while they know this is what they need to do, both are struggling to accept the things they have to give up for their family member's sake. I loved the way this was handled and how both Margot’s sister and Forrest’s dad went about helping them leave the nest.
I will always have a soft spot for sister relationships, and Margot and Savanah were some of the best. I loved them so much.
Long review short, READ THIS ONE.

Thank you, NetGalley and Atria Books, for this eARC in exchange for an honest review!

Margot is a romance writer who gets canceled when a private document showing she doesn’t believe in happily ever afters is leaked online. Margot jets off to the Alaskan wilderness to reinvent herself and is soon facing every romance trope out there.

I absolutely loved this book, it was cute and cozy but also very funny. I actually laughed out loud a few times, which isn’t the norm for me. Margot's humour was great, which made reading from her POV enjoyable. Her sister was hilarious, the banter between our main characters was flirty and funny and there was even a scene that you could see coming from miles away but still had me laughing and reading out loud to my dad so that we were both laughing. There were also multiple Taylor Swift references which is a guaranteed way to my heart.

There were so many romance tropes in this book but it worked great, the characters were aware the tropes were happening and actively fighting against them. I really liked that our main characters weren’t the typical “they can’t possibly like me” types but instead knew there was attraction from both sides but chose to fight it for their own personal reasons.

I only had a couple small issues with the book, the main one being I found the spicy scenes moved very quickly. A short amount of writing covered multiple rounds, if you know what I mean.

Overall I had a great time reading this book and will be more than willing to read anything else Victoria Lavine writes.

I picked this up hoping it would break me out of my reading slump, and boy did it ever. This book sucked me in right away, and I gulped it down in just three sittings. I absolutely loved the writing and the meta-but-very-self-aware commentary on the romance genre and its readership. This book is a love letter to romance readers everywhere, delivered in a comically trope-filled package. I honestly loved every minute of it. The voice, the characters, the themes—amazing. It feels like the romance genre has really hit its stride with authors dedicating more and more of their page count to real issues and heftier topics alongside the banter and flirting, and I am absolutely here for it. Any Trope but You is perfect for fans of Emily Henry and Abby Jimenez. I cannot wait to see what she does next!

Any Trope but You
Victoria Lavine
5 stars

For a debut novel, you’d never know it! This was absolutely one of the funnest romance rides I’ve been on in a while! It is a quintessential romcom read full of hilarious one-liners, banter, spice, and swoon worthy moments all romance readers love!

Our FMC, Margot, is well known romance author who doesn’t believe in love after a long string of disappointing men in her life. When she’s hacked during a zoom call and her secret “happily never after” notes are leaked on the internet, she’s immediately shamed by the reading community and her life is thrown in a metaphorical blender. Her sister and roommate, Savannah, plans for her to go off-grid for 6 weeks in Alaska to work on her next not-romance novel while things cool down.

I loved this books for so many reasons! The humor for one was my perfect blend! I loved that both Margot and Forrest were caring for their family members who needed them. Savannah has a chronic illness that Margot helped her manage and put her relationship with her sister above everyone else in her life. As Forrest, who lost his mother to breast cancer, went on to be a leading scientist with innovative research to help others. He dropped everything when his dad, Trapper, had a fall and required round the clock care. Being constantly there for others, both Margot and Forrest were able to really understand one another and connect, despite both of them wanting to keep their distance.

I was giggling every time Forrest checked off a romance readers favorite romance trope throughout the book. He’s a doctor, hot, fit, kind, and plenty of other things that made me cackle whenever Margot found out because OF COURSE he’s perfect! I loved that during the trip Savannah had incentives of personal letters waiting for her after she put herself out there. Those letter scenes were always so sweet and tender. I felt like I really got to know Margot to her core through them.

I loved that during this 6 week trip that Margot out outside and explored the wilderness! As someone who likes the look of the outdoors but would never got hiking in a snow storm (!!) this was so fun to experience. It felt like I could actually be there with how well the author described the scenery. While all good things come to an end, I was really happy with the way this one did. The third act breakup was something I couldn’t even fault either character for. It made perfect sense for them as characters for it to go down the way it did. I am just so happy with the way it ended!!!

I am so excited for anything Victoria writes next! She’s not only an amazing author but reading her acknowledgments had me tearing up after learning she was diagnosed with breast cancer during her draft of this story. Just wow!

Did I just find my new favorite contemporary romcom?? This is the most self-aware romance I’ve read in a long time. The main character, Margot, is a romance novelist. So she notices all the tropes and points them out as they happen. The chemistry between her and Forrest is scorching, and this was some of the best banter I’ve ever read! There’s also an awesome sister relationship between Margot and Savannah. I love how they care for each other.

I highlighted so many amazingly funny and well written turns of phrase. I’m not normally a highlighter but the writing was so good I had to remember it!

The spice was amazing. Hot af. That sauna scene. Do I have a new fetish?

I can’t believe this was a debut novel! I can’t wait to see what @victorialavinewrites does next!

Thank you to @Netgalley and @atriabooks for the chance to review this ARC.

This book is millennial-coded in the best way! I loved the dual POV—it’s full of humor, heart, and just the right amount of spice. The meet-cute between the main characters was hilarious, and I really enjoyed the parallel storylines of both characters caring for their family members, a responsibility that’s both a blessing and a challenge. The mix of classic book tropes kept me laughing, making this a fun, feel-good read with plenty of charm! Such an amazing debut!

After a career-ending scandal and the fallout from HNA-Gate, bestselling romance author Margot Bradley escapes to a remote Alaskan resort to reinvent herself as a murder mystery writer but instead finds herself living in a real-life rom-com (IYKYK). The grumpy yet irresistible resort owner, Dr. Forrest Wakefield, has his own reasons for avoiding love, but as unexpected tropes keep throwing them together, Margot starts to wonder if she’s been wrong about happily ever afters all along.

Thanks to NetGalley, Atria Books, and Victoria Lavine for granting me access to this book. All opinions are my own.

When best-selling romance author, Margot Bradley's laptop gets hacked and her secret "Happily Never After" file (a file containing alternate non-hea endings for all her HEA novels) gets leaked, she gets canceled by the whole community and is dropped by her publisher. Her sister, Savannah, convinces her to take some time off and go to Alaska and try her hand at writing in a different genre.

What Margot does not expect to find at a totally off-the-grid resort, is the literal form of her perfect man. Like he was made with a little piece of each of her heroes in the stories she writes, but ultimately a man who seems way too good to be true? Yeah that one.

I absolutely loved this book. The characters, their flaws, the scenery, everything about this book was just so good.
Margot and Forrest are two sides of the same coin, always putting others first and wanting to be there for their loved ones. Their attraction and chemistry is amazing, and their character development through the story was so so good.

And while, yes, the relationship between Margot and Forrest, was to die for; Her relationship with her sister, Savannah was what really stole the show for me. The sisterly love was actually making me tear up!

All in all, this book has easily made it into my top favorite reads of this year. I highly recommend picking this one up when it comes out on April 1st!

Thank you to Atria books and to Simon & Schuster for giving me this early copy!

I enjoyed reading this book—it was a fun and lighthearted story, and I appreciated how the different tropes were woven in. However, the characters felt a bit random, and I didn’t really connect with them. There were also several storylines that didn’t quite come together cohesively. Overall, it was an easy, cute read, but not necessarily my favorite.

A very lighthearted and easy romance. I would say mid level steamy but occasionally cringe. If you’re looking for a HEA that’s incredibly predictable as a good distraction, this will do it.

A cute debut novel! This is an easy and quick read, but I didn’t feel too connected to the characters.

Thank you to NetGalley and Atria Books for a copy of this eARC.

This was a cute story and an easy read.. however I just did not feel connected to the characters at all. I didn’t feel like I really KNEW them. Which also led me to not feel the chemistry between the two main characters either. I did enjoy the Alaskan setting and will say that the writing was good! The story just for some reason didn’t fully connect for me. I definitely see a lot of potential for this new author with this being her debut novel. Something was just missing for me in this one. I did enjoy the humor as well as the side characters. I probably would give a future book by this author another chance.

As a long-time romance reader, with a title like Any Trope But You, I figured there'd be a fair amount of tropes in this book, but what I wasn't expecting was for the book to be an outright homage and tribute to romance readers in all their messy glory and expectations for the genre. It was like reading a romance written at a meta level and was very fun to read.

Margot, the FMC, is a successful, well-known, and well-loved romance author who has a secret - after numerous disappointments in her personal life, she doesn't actually believe in love or in romance. When her fans discover this, they turn on her and she is convinced by her sister to go to a remote lodge in Alaska, in winter, to re-invent herself as a mystery writer. There, she runs into Forrest, the lodge owner's son, who is a successful research doctor but has come home to run the lodge due to an injury that incapacitated his father.

Right away, we have the enemies to lovers trope, followed in quick succession by insta-lust, remote, off-the-grid location, only one tent, "oh no, hypothermia, must get naked and warm up skin to skin", there's even a tame moose, and Margot's first view of Forrest is of him chopping wood in the snow. It's all great fun, especially because Margot keeps noting all of the romance hero tropes that Forrest embodies and she keeps waiting for him to finally reveal some deep hidden flaw.

Margot and Forrest are far more alike than they are different. They are both caretakers to their cores, Margot of her sister, who has an autoimmune disease, Forrest of his injured father. Because of these shared values, they "get" each other at a very deep level. At one point, some conflict arose due to Forrest keeping information from Margot, but it was quickly resolved as he understood exactly why she was so upset and quickly explained what had happened. I thought she was a bit arrogant initially, especially as she was clueless about living in the wilderness and should have been more open to advice, but that got better as the book went on. My thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for an advance copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions in this review are my own.

"Any Trope but You" by debut author Victoria Lavine was such a hilarious, tongue-in-cheek ride through a multitude of our favorite romance tropes, all in the same book.

Margot Bradley is an author with a large audience who eats up her happily-ever-after romance novels. The only problem? Margot doesn't believe in the happily ever afters that she gives her readers in her novels. Her solace? Her secret "Happily Never After" file where she writes alternate endings to her novels and their beloved characters. One night during a live podcast, Margot's 'Happily Never After' file gets leaked to the internet at large, bringing her career to a crashing halt and causing both her readers and her publisher to drop her. When her chronically ill sister, who Margot has spent a lifetime helping the care for, sends Margot to Alaska to help her escape the public and to start writing her next novel, Margot discovers that perhaps there is something to all of those well used romance tropes that readers love so well. And perhaps that Happily Ever After may not be out of reach for her after all.

A hysterical debut, 'Any Trope but You' views some of our favorite romance tropes - forced proximity, the selfless main male character who stopped his life to care for his father since he's a doctor (because, OF COURSE he is), enemies (-ish) to lovers, etcetera - through the jaded eyes of someone who does not believe that romance is for her. The result is a rom-com with enough will they or won't they heat to melt the snows of Alaska. Sprinkled with chronic illness representation, and a sympathetic nod to caregivers and the sacrifices they make, 'Any Trope but You' is a perfect addition to the romance genre it lovingly pokes fun at.

Thank you to NetGalley and Atria for providing me with an eARC of this novel in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you Atria books, and Netgalley for the ARC!

I had very high hopes for this novel because the description sounded soo good however this was a DNF for me. I ,ace it 15% of the way through and just could not get into it. The FMC was so unlikeable to me that I just couldn’t go any further. It has a lot of tropes that would have been good however I did not read far enough to see if they were executed well.

First off, thank you to NetGalley for the arc of this book in exchange for my honest review.

That being said, there is literally nothing about this book that I enjoyed. I DNF’d at 13% (but also read the last chapter) because nothing was really making sense and the main female character was insufferable and setting feminism back 50 years with her ineptitude. It had so much potential based on the blurb, but this was just NOT the book for me. 1⭐️