@book.obsessed.mat: Why are we all of a sudden hating on dark romance readers? 📚🖤 Reading fiction doesn't equal endorsing reality. We can enjoy complex, messy, morally grey stories without wanting them in real life. Can we stop judging people by what's on their bookshelf and start letting people read what they enjoy? Dark romance readers aren't asking you to read it—they're just asking you to respect that fiction is fiction. What's your take? 👀👇 #BookTok #darkromance #bookish #readersoftiktok #RomanceBooks

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firianna_books
firianna_books :
I see “all your bl&ody lies” series 😍
2026-07-23 10:21:08
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bookaholicalways
Hi…I’mABookaholic :
Considering H D Carlton was a survivor who wrote this to help her overcome her experiences - I find it heroic
2026-07-20 16:50:53
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book_mumma2
Book_Mumma 📚✨️ :
Well said! 👏👏☺️
2026-07-23 09:54:09
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liaann161
✨🌌Never.Leaving.Velaris🌌✨ :
Most of them haven’t even read it, they hear someone else say it’s all SA and just went with it.
2026-07-21 12:00:50
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maymihodges
maymihodges :
i LOVEEEEE dark romance 😍 I prefer them over the cutsy stuff the darker the better 🥵
2026-07-23 10:38:55
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pixi_noire
Pixi :
I'm going to start going door to door with haunting adaline....I mean they do it with the bible 🤣
2026-07-20 14:44:32
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mrss_yoshi
Mrss_yoshi 📚🎧🎮 :
I've read dark romance, I've also read pitch black and erotic horror, doesnt mean I'm going to go out, murder someone and then eat them!!
2026-07-20 20:42:11
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demi_marie_bookobsessed
Dee🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏊‍♂️🌶📚🇵🇸 :
This Dark Romance Hate is getting ridiculous there outraged over Haunting hunting adeline but watch Game of thrones which has do much violence against women
2026-07-21 00:46:44
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chillitsonlychaos
Sarah’s-books&oddities🍉📚🌙 :
Idk but I have a hate kink so jokes on them 😜
2026-07-22 21:04:45
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user.12343212342
User.1234321 :
You all make the exact same point but NOT ONE OF YOU answer when we rebut… funny that
2026-07-21 18:56:24
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m1ll13_g
M.B.Goodwin | Author 🌙🗡️ :
As someone who survived rape by someone I trusted at a young age, reading and writing dark romance gives me so much comfort. I write my feelings into each scene, and I give my characters the justice I never experienced and I also like to think I help other survivors feel heard and understood. Developing a CNC or dubious consent kink after being assaulted is so common, and I want my readers to understand it is NORMAL and you shouldn’t feel ashamed for it. We’re just trying to take back the control that was taken from us 🫶🏼
2026-07-20 14:20:21
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jatsune_minxu
jatsune_minxu :
I watched, enjoyed, and obsessed over the ENTIRETY of Peaky Blinders… apparently I now enjoy cigars, cocaine, blowing shit up, and have a penchant for blinding people.
2026-07-22 18:05:48
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bethanyleighsinclairx
BethanyLeighSinclair :
Absolutely love you!! Agree with everything you've said👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
2026-07-21 11:49:47
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chiquita..pero...picosa
🪶bri🇲🇽📚🌈 :
PREACHED
2026-07-23 05:09:33
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dustismithauthor
Dusti Smith | Author :
Immediate follow, my friend 🖤
2026-07-22 16:53:36
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dezamine
Dezamine :
I’m more appalled by the outright shaming I’ve seen people do to SA survivors who enjoy this kind of material.
2026-07-21 12:32:02
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jessica.teasdale
Jess ✨📚 :
LOUDER FOR PEOPLE IN THE BACK 🗣️
2026-07-20 17:54:57
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saphirafortes
Saphira 🌙🥀📚 :
There need to stop shaming those who enjoy it and move on with there life I’m sick of how toxic booktok is now it’s ridiculous
2026-07-21 08:12:03
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yanaaaaaaaahhh
🌸yana🌸 :
i’m genuinely asking: where’s the justice when these characters ending up with their abusers and rapists? also, can we sincerely make the argument that fiction is completely separate from reality? i mean sure, people can tolerate things in media that they won’t in real life. but studies have shown that our brains react to fiction — at least on an emotional level — as though they were real events happening. that is why there’s a push for diversity in film, right? because being able to watch fictional characters of various races, sexual orientations, genders, etc. can make up react as though they are real people. that’s also why feminist critique of the portrayal of women in video games is so important. video games are consumed mostly by men and having good representation of women can be genuinely useful in changing certain harmful perceptions. we also see traces of authors, their beliefs, the audience they hope to cultivate, the society they lived in and the time period they lived in through their work. when we read, say, narnia, we can see what he believes about children and childhood, right? primarily that he thinks children are pure and he sees them growing up as a bad thing to happen to their inherent purity. contrast that with phillip pullman’s his dark materials series and we can see, through lyra’s character arc that he believes that children growing up is good. did 90s-2000s romcoms not contribute to normalising coercive behaviour in women? did the way native americans or black people were portrayed in old american films not contribute or at least reflect the views held by the majority at the time? and if an author today wrote a book, say, portraying a black people as criminal, lazy, sexual deviants who harass the main character who’s say, a white woman, would we not recognise that as playing into harmful stereotypes about black people? especially if the text doesn’t make a compelling case for why the black characters behave the way they do beyond them black? so why is dark romance above such critique?
2026-07-21 17:33:04
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heidithereader
Heidi the Reader 📚 🐦‍⬛ 🐦‍🔥 :
Suddenly? It’s endless. Same for Dark Romantasy
2026-07-20 19:59:22
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book.obsessed.mat
MAT 🏳️‍🌈📚 :
for all the people sending me hate thanks some of the stuff your saying making me laugh so hard getting me through my shift at work 😂😂😂 all ways remember kisses 🥰🥰
2026-07-20 19:06:04
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