Ep 8 | A Love Song for Ricki Wilde: The Fated Mates Trope

07/26/24 • 18 min

Welcome back to episode 8 of Flip the Page. I’m your host Zo and today we’re going to be talking about a popular trope in romance: Fated Mates.
The book I’m going to be submitting in as evidence to frame my breakdown of this trope around is A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams.
Set against the backdrop of modern Harlem and Renaissance glamour, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde is a swoon-worthy love story of two passionate artists drawn to the magic, romance, and opportunity of New York, and whose lives are uniquely and irreversibly linked.

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07/26/24 • 18 min

Flip the Page - Ep 8 | A Love Song for Ricki Wilde: The Fated Mates Trope

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The Fated Mates trope. Look. Authors. Aspiring authors. If you're going to put this trope in your book, I need you to sell me on it. And 99% of the time, I'm not buying whatever it is you're selling. Honestly, I feel like you're scamming me out of what could have been a well-developed romance. Yeah, I said it. Y'all are out here scamming! It's like going to the corner store and buying a family sized bag of chips and openin

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