Exploring Common Tropes Within the Paranormal Romance Genre.
There’s nothing like a good blood-sucking vampire romance to pique your interest.
Paranormal Romance is a subgenre of romance that works to blend in elements of speculative fiction as well — fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Its goal is to be a love story with strong threads of supernatural or paranormal elements that can not be explained away by science.
This is one of the largest subgenres in the romance genre and is often celebrated for it’s addition of story elements that are not entirely romantic. Where subgenres like contemporary romance walk the fine line of often being gratuitous, paranormal romance requires a fair amount of world-building that obscures that line even more.
Here are some popular paranormal romance tropes:
Before I get into my list of some of the most popular paranormal romance tropes, I want to preface this by saying that these tropes aren’t specific to paranormal romance. They are often found in other genres as well. However, they are prominent currently in the paranormal romance subgenre.
I’d also like to point out that there are so many more tropes seen in paranormal romance stories that aren’t listed here. These are just…
