The novel is a genre of fiction, and fiction may be defined as the art or craft of contriving, through the written word, representations of human life that instruct or divert or both. The various forms that fiction may take are best seen less as a number of separate categories than as a continuum or not.

The content contains high-frequency explicit adult themes, such as porn, graphic violence, illegal drugs etc. Any work that contains a significant proportion of sexual or violent content (present in over 60% of the book) should be rated at 18+.