Over the 28 weeks to 2026-09-07 we counted 98 demand-signal mentions of Dark Romance (as trope) in Paranormal & Urban Fantasy Romance — 2.07% of every trope mention we counted in the lane, ranking it #7 of 22. Share down.
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Mentions are counted rows, not estimates and not a model. Mentions are demand signals (specific things readers asked for or praised) from Goodreads reviews, BookTok comments and captions and Reddit posts, assigned to a subgenre lane, counted by the signal's main trope tag in our published taxonomy, and totalled by week of posting. This page shows the 28 weeks from 2026-03-02 to 2026-09-07; Dark Romance (as trope) appeared in 24 of the 28.
Only tropes from our canonical taxonomy of 1,175 appear here, and only the 366 of them that clear our publication floor somewhere. Raw scrape labels are excluded on purpose: publish those and the same trope ends up listed twice under two spellings and the ranking becomes fiction.
Direction is a change in share, never a raw weekly move, because a genre that simply gets busier would otherwise make every trope in it look like it is rising. We state no direction at all unless each 12-week band holds at least 10 mentions and the two hold 30 between them — a trope that went from two mentions to forty is a small number moving, not a trend.
Reviews and posts are read some time after they are written, so the latest weeks are under-counted. Because direction compares shares it is less exposed than raw counts, but treat it as a hint, not a trend.
Last counted 2026-09-16. Counts are restated when this page is next rebuilt.
Changing the genre and pressing Check demand reloads the trope list for that lane. 3,851 trope-and-lane readouts, last counted 2026-09-16.