This week BookTok creators reflected on the rise of dark romance on the platform, which refers to novels with taboo and illegal themes. On BookTok, Busayo and Emily (@emilymiahreads ...

One beloved dark romance book is getting a sequel in June 2025, but there is still time to catch up if you have not read the ...

Videos discussing the book had amassed hundreds of thousands of views on "BookTok," a community on ... This is not dark romance. This is straight up [pedophilia]." TikTok user @aliiiireads ...

BookTok, a subculture of TikTok ... video using words like “enemies to lovers” or “dark romantasy,” two genres that I’ve seen surpass all other book genres in recent years. These romance authors, who ...

(BookTok is all about buying new, but don’t forget your local libraries and secondhand book shops!) Another slightly disconcerting trend is the rise of so-called “dark romance” books—those ...

Huang, 34, who writes under a pseudonym, first rose to popularity in 2021 with her Twisted series of dark contemporary romance novels ... Twisted series became a BookTok sensation, the prolific ...

Now, Huang is dominating the romance genre herself, even solidifying a place on the Top 5 bestselling BookTok ... her new dark, steamy novel “King of Envy,” out now from Bloom Books.

On France’s National Reading Day, Solange Mougin looks at children’s reading habits and how the #BookTok phenomenon is introducing teens to viral books, specifically romance and dark romance ...

Boosted by BookTok, the skyrocketing success of romantasy — a genre that mixes romance and fantasy ... himself as “the dark-haired love interest from your fantasy novels,” thinks the ...