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No romance in my novel - am I missing a trick?

I’ve written a sci fi mystery/thriller that doesn’t include a subplot of romance. Most books I read nowadays do have this as a theme. I just wanted to focus on the core themes as I sometimes personally find this quite distracting and want to skip love/sex scenes. Obviously the characters build relationships but there is no obvious romance. Have I made a mistake? Am I missing a central component that most readers are looking for? Or does this appeal to some? I’d love to hear your thoughts.

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u/AggravatingDay3476 — 4 days ago

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Thoughts on no Romance in my novel

I’ve written a sci fi mystery/thriller that doesn’t include a subplot of romance. Most books I read nowadays do have this as a theme. I just wanted to focus on the core themes as I something personally find this quite distracting and want to skip love/sec scenes. Obviously the characters build relationships but there is no obvious romance. Have I made a mistake? Am I missing a central component that most readers are looking for? Or does this appeal to some? I’d love to hear your thoughts.

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u/AggravatingDay3476 — 4 days ago

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The Deepborn

Humanity survives beneath the ocean.

The system decides who pays for it.

Maya Clare hears things she shouldn’t.

Deep beneath the ocean, inside the domed city of Pelagia, the system monitors everything — oxygen, movement, behaviour. It keeps people safe. It keeps them alive.

But it doesn’t hear the sounds Maya does.

Unregistered tremors. Shifts in the structure. Patterns that don’t exist in the data.

The system calls it nothing.

Maya knows it isn’t.

Kael Arden has spent his life trusting the numbers. As an Authority analyst, he knows the Deep runs on precision, control, and truth.

Until the numbers start lying.

As their paths collide, Maya and Kael uncover a hidden network of anomalies the system refuses to acknowledge — and a secret buried deeper than the ocean itself.

Because survival in the Deep isn’t free.

And someone, somewhere, is paying for it.

The whole trilogy is written. I’d love some honest feedback about the first instalment.

Available on Kindle in the next few days.

u/AggravatingDay3476 — 12 days ago