Dark Romance lane score: opportunity 52/100 (rank 21 of 43), greenlight band Strong-buy, 6,756 reader demand signals in 30 days. Free, live, no sign-up.
| Component | Percentile in this lane |
|---|---|
| Reader demand | 40th |
| Revenue | 62th |
| Scarcity (how little is published against that demand) | 36th |
| Momentum | 90th |
Counted across 10,603 titles in this lane — 98% sit at steamy or hotter.
| Heat level | Share of the lane |
|---|---|
| steamy | 56% |
| spicy | 20% |
| dark | 16% |
| explicit | 6% |
| sweet | 1% |
| Median Kindle length | 314 pages |
| Median length, all formats | 322 pages |
| Recent releases | 361 pages (was 338) |
| Length is trending | longer |
| Novella-length share, recent | 12% (was 0%) |
| Dominant series shape | Standalone |
Counted — not estimated — from the Tropesmith corpus, and recounted as the corpus grows: 2,732,118 Goodreads reviews, 1,619,763 shelf signals, 1,869,092 parsed reader demand signals and 75,281 BookTok videos, across 11,638 trope-tagged titles and 4,423 distinct tropes in 138 demand lanes. The raw response for this lane is available as JSON.
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