Hey. I'm new to /lit/, and I have a question. What exactly

>>9893338
Lurk more faggot

>>9893338
Genre fiction is simply fiction that wants to appeal to the most amount of people by fitting into certain genres, usually what's popular at the time. You can figure it out from there.

>>9893338
this makes me sad
you tried fedoraboy, you tried

>>9893338

It's fiction whose primary goal is the implementation of certain genre expectations and tropes, which is a second-rate artistic vision to say the least and is indicative of a primacy of lowest common denominator marketability. Most of us here are interested in literature as an art form so we're not gonna be too hot on the pablum of peddlers.

sci-fi
fantasy
mystery
romanticism
YA
bodice rippers

>>9893354
unironically this

>>9893338
Any young adult book that tries to piggy back off of the success of LotR and GoT with "epik deep lore" but is really just boring tripe.

>>9893376
Its also doubly sad because the girl has cancer