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It's particularly apparent if you look at the Kindle Top 100 - https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Kindle-Store/zgbs/digita.... I'm most familiar with the romances, so that's what I'll be discussing. There's a lot more to the genre than these examples, but that's not what sells.

• Fourth Wing and Iron Flame are poorly written fantasy romances that blew up on TikTok.

• Haunting Adeline and Hunting Adeline are poorly written dark romances(https://www.reddit.com/r/RomanceBooks/comments/uu1age/what_d... they're also antisemitic QAnon fan fiction.

• Three books with bare chested men on the covers. These indicate that there's lots of sex scenes; no one reads them for plot.

• Icebreaker is a poorly written hockey romance. The author is ignorant about college, hockey, and the US to say the least.

• Credence is a contemporary romance that's best known for sex scenes and toxic relationships.

• A Court of Thorns and Roses and A Court of Mist and Fury. Both of these are mediocre fantasy romances by Sarah J. Maas; she's the Dan Brown of romance.