Is my genre Dark Romantasy or is it not?
I write a pretty long high fantasy novel, but I struggle to assign it to a specific genre and therefore can't really advertise. The main problem is it's relationship to spice and content.
First thought my novel is Dark Romance/Fantasy because:
- relationship between protagonist and antagonist makes up for a great deal of the suspense
- both lovers are dark assholes
- I have explicit spicy scenes
- the Worldbuilding is definitely kinky, I have a very kinky race
But:
- a great deal of the suspense is also about politics
- I have many important characters besides the two lovers, that influence the story
-the typical dark romance trope about the dark daddy Dom who is jealous and possessive doesn't fit at all
- dark romance usually is an extremely narrow defined genre. Both get together, they kinda fall in love on first sight, all this stuff. It's basically soft porn. My book doesn't fit this narrow definition at all
-when I see how other authors advertise their dark romance books or I read dark romance books I just feel like this is very much the opposite of what MY story is about. And I would never read the dark romance I see in the bookshelves, because the stories are not complex and emotionally varying enough for me
So mainly I assigned my book to dark romance because I didn't know what else it could be, but it just feels totally wrong. Is there a different word for the genre that I'm describing? Or do you come up with books that are similar? Is there a more suitable community that I don't know about yet? Plz text me, if you write similar stuff. I don't wanna follow all the J.S. Wondas and H.D. Carlton's on Instagram :(