How often do readers mention or praise the enemies to lovers trope? Not by opinion — by count. Tropesmith counts demand signals: each is one specific thing a reader asked for or praised in a review, comment or post, taken from Goodreads reviews, Amazon reviews, BookTok comments and captions, Reddit posts and Amazon Q&A, and tagged by trope. The counts below are the signals that mention this trope. Here is what they say.
Counted 2026-11-04 02:40 UTC. A demand signal is one specific thing a reader asked for or praised in a review, comment or post, picked out by Tropesmith's classifier. One review can give several. Each signal gets a rarity tag (common, underserved or novel) from the text of that review or post alone; the classifier is never shown what is on the shelf. A tag points at where to look. It does not prove that no book answers the signal. Shares are the tagged signals divided by all signals in the same scope. How we count.
Enemies to lovers is the friction engine of romance. Two leads start as adversaries — rivals, opponents, people who genuinely can’t stand each other — and the antagonism slowly cracks into attraction. The pull is the reversal: every barbed exchange early on becomes fuel for the payoff, and readers stay for the moment the walls finally come down.
31% of the demand signals that mention enemies to lovers are tagged underserved or novel by Tropesmith's classifier, compared with 39% across all demand signals.
The first figure counts the demand signals that mention enemies to lovers; the second is the share Tropesmith's classifier tagged underserved or novel, to compare with 39% across all demand signals. The tag is a pointer, not a verdict on the shelf, so check the comp titles in your lane before you commit to a version of the trope.
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Build my Map → See a real sample Map first →As counted on 4 November 2026, Tropesmith has 63,598 demand signals that mention enemies to lovers (a demand signal is one specific thing a reader asked for or praised in a review, comment or post). 31% of them are tagged underserved or novel by Tropesmith's classifier, and 7,432 come from BookTok comments and captions.
Enemies to lovers is the friction engine of romance. Two leads start as adversaries — rivals, opponents, people who genuinely can’t stand each other — and the antagonism slowly cracks into attraction. The pull is the reversal: every barbed exchange early on becomes fuel for the payoff, and readers stay for the moment the walls finally come down.
Of the 63,598 demand signals that mention enemies to lovers, 19,998 (31%) are tagged underserved or novel by Tropesmith's classifier, compared with 39% across all demand signals. The tag is made from the text of each review or post alone, without a view of the shelf, so it points at where to look and does not show that no book answers the signal. To check the shelf, compare the comp titles in your lane or open a sample Map.
Earn the reversal, then aim it at a specific flavour rather than a generic one. Tropesmith counts 63,598 demand signals that mention enemies to lovers, 31% of them tagged underserved or novel by its classifier: a pointer to check against the comp titles in your lane. The antagonism has to cost both leads something before it turns, or the payoff lands flat: give each of them a reason to be right, make the early friction specific to who they are rather than to the plot, and let the turn happen somewhere neither can retreat from. Then choose the setting and sub-flavour from what readers have asked for or praised rather than from the label.
What these figures are. They come from demand signals read from reviews, comments and posts. They do not describe the shelf; to see the shelf, compare the comp titles in your lane.
Every number we publish is counted, not estimated. This is the corpus behind it.
Counted 2026-11-05 10:15 UTC by direct query against the Tropesmith corpus. Method: how we count · how a Map is built.
Demand figures on this page were counted on 4 November 2026 from Tropesmith's demand-signal engine; see how we count. Part of the romance market intelligence hub.