This is a helpful list of terms and abbreviations in reviews!
AGR: age-gap romance
ARC: advanced reader copy
BB or BBF: book boyfriend
BIPOC: black, indigenous, people of color
DIK: desert island keeper; a forever reread
DNF: did not finish
DubCon: dubious concent
E2L: enemies to lovers
F2L: friends to lovers
FF: female-female romance
FMC: female main character
FTB: fade to black/no on-page steaminess
FWB: friends with benefits
HEA: happily ever after
HFN: happily for now
LI: love interest
May-December: age-gap romance, also AGR
MC: main character; can also be “motorcycle club” or “multicultural”
meet-cute: initial meeting of romance protagonists
MF: male-female romance
MM: male-male romance
MMC: male main character
NonCon: non-consensual