§ 01Who ends up with whom, and how
The setup that drives each romance: the trope, the heat level, the lens we read it through, and the question of who in the relationship holds the cards.
Relationship dynamics
Power balance
Heat level
Point of view
§ 02The heroine
Demographics, occupation, and the words the prose actually uses to describe her.
Age range
Occupation
Wealth origin
Independence × experience
The words used to describe her
§ 03The hero
The man at the other end of the dynamic: older, wealthier, and described in a remarkably narrow vocabulary.
Age range
Occupation
Wealth origin
Independence × experience
The words used to describe him
§ 04The pair
Pairings put the asymmetry in plain view: the age gaps, the wealth gaps, and the matrices that show what kinds of couples the platform's most-read books are pairing up.
In the wealthier-hero half of the data, the heroine is just as likely to be wealthy herself as poor. the gap is more about the hero's starting point than the heroine's.
Age pairings
Wealth pairings
Heat & tension vocabulary
§ 05The composite
If you stitched together the modal values across all twenty-five books, the average heroine and the average hero each settle into a fairly specific portrait. Here is what those composites look like, treated like character sheets.
§ 06The books
Side-by-side cards for every book in the current filter — heroine on the left, hero on the right, dynamic up top.