Ready for a New Trope? Try Femgore Romance. Femgore (noun): A romance-forward subgenre that blends female rage, graphic violence, and high-stakes action with an emotionally intense love story. Femgore centers women who are not just survivors, but retaliators. The gore is explicit. The power is feminine. The romance is passionate, often obsessive, and deeply intertwined with vengeance or justice. Think: rage-fueled heroine meets blood-soaked romance. Now listen, “Chick lit” used to be a term that sort of made me grind my teeth. It felt like a very patronizing term applied to books that focused heavily on “women’s issues.” I was thrilled when the term “femgore” started showing up in all of my publishing and book roundups. It is a growing subgenre of the horror diaspora, written about women, by women, and tends to focus on female rage and the consequences – orrrr benefits, if you squint – of unleashing it. Femgore reads contain explicit language, gruesome violence, and themes like obsession and body horror. If I were in charge of labeling things, I would call this “women are done with this s*** lit”. Read these at your own risk (but also definitely read these!) Greedy by Callie Kazumi What would