Citations:enemies-to-lovers

Noun: "(often attributive) a trope in romance fiction (particularly fan fiction) involving the development of an antagonistic relationship into romantic love"

 * 2013, Maisey Yates, The Couple Who Fooled the World, page 42:
 * “And for everyone rooting for this little enemies-to-lovers tale...”
 * 2015, B. B. Reid, Breaking Love, page 286 (approx.):
 * B.B. Reid is the author of several novels including the hit enemies-to-lovers, Fear Me.
 * 2017, Veronica Roth, "Vim and Vigor", in Three Sides of a Heart: Stories About Love Triangles (ed. Natalie C. Parker), page 199:
 * But then Antimatter's mother had died, and he started to shift, and the passionate hate turned to attraction. Enemies to lovers—one of Edie’s favorite tropes.
 * 2017, Samantha Young, Every Little Thing, page 143:
 * “That can’t be the end of the story.” Dahlia sounded horrified. “This is Bailey Hartwell and Vaughn Tremaine. This is epic enemies-to-lovers shit!”
 * 2018, Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This, unnumbered page:
 * I know that she never falls asleep before 2 a.m. and her favourite fanfic trope is enemies-to-lovers and she’s secretly a fan of Ariana Grande.
 * 2022, Zilla Novikov & Rachel A. Rosen, The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die, page 141:
 * You could share this book with your mortal enemy, kicking off a romcom-style enemies-to-lovers montage.
 * 2022, "Treat Your Shelf", New Idea, 28 November 2022, page 82:
 * A deliciously entertaining enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy.
 * 2023, Ali Hazelwood, praise blurb in Jessica Clare, What the Hex, page 1:
 * And that’s because Go Hex Yourself is a romantic masterpiece, and the sexiest, most bewitching take on enemies-to-lovers I’ve read in ages.
 * 2023, Peter Egger, "'I Need You to Pretend to Date Me': Tracing Fanwork from Source to Its Furthest Extreme", thesis submitted to McGill University, page 8:
 * Manipulating a pair of conventional narrative structures for romance novels and fanwork (fake dating and enemies-to-lovers) combined with the core themes of Les Miz (that a better world is possible, even inevitable, through love and compassion) Best creates a work that validates the experience of many queer and marginalised young adults who went through the American public school system, while also showing the characters resisting repressive systems that many real teenagers were forced to accept.
 * 2023, Tara, quoted Fabienne Silberstein-Bamford, "The 'Fanfic Lens': Fan Writing's Impact on Media Consumption", Volume 19, Issue 2, March 2023, page 156:
 * When I read a book now, I think I'm much more trope-aware, because before I read fanfiction, I don't even think I fully understood what tropes were. So now I see, like, when a book has enemies-to-lovers, I see it, and I'm like, oh-oh.