Dystopian Romance

Dystopian romance is romance set against a broken or brutal world: collapsed societies, oppressive regimes, deadly competitions, and a future gone wrong. The love story carries the same weight as the world-building, so if you came for enemies forced to survive together, rebellions, deadly trials, morally gray leaders, and a couple who find each other when there's everything to lose, you're on the right shelf. It borrows from romantasy's high stakes and dark romance's edge, in a world that's actively trying to tear the couple apart.