I talked to Netta Baker, who teaches and researches popular romance at Virginia Tech, and she pointed out to me that romantasy readers, who are mostly women, are looking for a sense of agency.

I have a confession to make — I'm obsessed with gothic horror and dark romance books. They're not your typical light-hearted rom-coms where the most drama you'll read about are family secrets or ...

Rina Kent: “I think I speak for at least a portion of dark romance readers, we were never really interested in the heroes [when] growing up. We really loved the anti-heroes.

Now, with over 1 million copies sold, she’s one of the biggest names in the dark romance genre, has a new book, Scythe & Sparro w, on Feb. 11, and is active proof of how TikTok’s book ...

Readers often use fiction as a form of escapism, and the argument can be made that dark romance is therapeutic because no matter what the female protagonist goes through, the story always ends with a ...

These books mix romance and sex with more, like, military and war narratives within this fantasy realm. The latest book in the series, "Onyx Storm," just came out earlier this year and sold 2.7 ...