The "Spice" Rack
This popular trope involves two characters who can't stand each other but eventually end up in bed.
What is Enemies-to-Lovers?
Before Instagram, Millennials expressed their deepest teenage angst by posting song lyrics to this "Away Message" feature.
What is AIM (AOL Instant Messenger)?
This 5-book Sarah J. Maas series is the "gateway drug" for most Romantasy fans.
What is A Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR)?
If you are 30 years old today, you have spent approximately this many years of your life purely asleep.
What is 10 years?
Anne's favorite latte flavor that didn't actually include its eponymous gourd as an ingredient until a 2015 recipe change.
What is Pumpkin Spice?
This author, known for the "Chestnut Springs" series, is the reigning queen of "Small Town" spicy romance.
Who is Elsie Silver?
This 1999 teen rom-com is actually a modern-day retelling of William Shakespeare’s play The Taming of the Shrew.
What is 10 Things I Hate About You?
This term refers to the specific, often repetitive scenarios (like "accidental pregnancy" or "fake dating") that readers search for on Amazon or TikTok.
What are Tropes?
This 2004 rom-com stars Jennifer Garner as a girl who makes a wish on her 13th birthday and wakes up "flirty and thriving."
What is 13 Going on 30?
Anne's favorite color that symbolizes royalty, luxury, power, and creativity
What is purple
n many spicy Romantasy books, "The Fade to Black" is the opposite of this term, which describes scenes that are fully described and explicit.
What is "Open Door"?
In The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, the four best friends’ mothers famously met in this specific type of fitness class while they were all pregnant.
What is Prenatal Aerobics?
This Rebecca Yarros dragon-rider series finally saw its fourth book announcement in early 2026
What is The Empyrean Series (or Fourth Wing)?
If you were born in 1996, you share a birth year with the launch of this Nintendo console and the premiere of Scream.
What is the Nintendo 64?
Anne's favorite sports team who play at the boy garden and whose players Anne claims have one collective brain cell
What is the Phillies?
What is the specific "Why Choose" sub-genre where a female protagonist ends up with three or more male love interests?
What is Reverse Harem?
In Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, every adult member of the secret organization V.F.D. is branded with a tattoo of this body part on their left ankle.
What is an Eye?
When a book is "Closed Door," it means the spicy scenes happen in this way
What is "Off-page" (or not described)?
In the Friends episode "The One Where They All Turn Thirty," this character cries, "Why, God, why? We had a deal!"
Who is Joey?
Anne's favorite plushy is a stuffed version of this spring themed animal
What is a rabbit
In the world of "Omegaverse" or certain paranormal romances, this term describes the biological "mating" pull between two characters.
What is Bonding (or Scenting/Knotting)?
In Meg Cabot’s The Princess Diaries books (not the movie!), Mia Thermopolis’s father doesn't die—he is actually the Prince of Genovia who cannot have more children due to this specific medical diagnosis.
What is Testicular Cancer?
This "Daddy" of the Romantasy world is a shadow-wielder and the High Lord of the Night Court
Who is Rhysand?
According to a popular 2000s song by the band Bowling for Soup, "Her dreams went out the door / When she turned..." this age.
What is 24?