Gen Alpha teens read the swoon without the spice
Gen Alpha teens are falling for romance novels, but without the adult content, as BookTok fuels demand for age-appropriate love stories.
Age-appropriate romance is putting everything from first love and fake dating to mysterious strangers and handsome princes back on teenage reading lists, without wandering into adult sexual content.
It comes social media turned books into shareable cultural currency and made romance one of the most visible genres online, but also blurred the line between books written for teenagers and adult romance packaged and promoted alongside them.
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