Historical — Gothic lane score: live opportunity read, greenlight band Strong-buy, 9,246 reader demand signals in 30 days. Free, live, no sign-up.
Counted across 11,525 titles in this lane — 98% sit at steamy or hotter.
| Heat level | Share of the lane |
|---|---|
| steamy | 64% |
| spicy | 18% |
| dark | 11% |
| explicit | 5% |
| sweet | 2% |
| Median Kindle length | 326 pages |
| Median length, all formats | 346 pages |
| Recent releases | 392 pages (was 480) |
| Length is trending | shorter |
| Novella-length share, recent | 5% (was 0%) |
| Dominant series shape | Standalone |
Counted — not estimated — from the Tropesmith corpus, and recounted as the corpus grows: 2,701,655 Goodreads reviews, 1,592,976 shelf signals, 1,842,553 parsed reader demand signals and 73,961 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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