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2012年畅销的小说《50道阴影》让mummy porn一词在西方大热。到了2014年，女性读者的口味似乎又变了，她们现在喜欢看谋杀、背叛等题材的女性小说，这类小说叫做chick noir（女性黑色小说）。 The expression chick noir describes a type of novel which usually has a female author, features strong female protagonists and is written with women as its target audience, but unlike the classically 'girlie' topics of love, romance and domestic humor, focuses on 'dark' themes – betrayal, murder, and even horror. 女性黑色小说（chick noir）指女性作者写的以强势女性为主角、且目标读者为女性的一种小说体裁，不过该体裁并不是以传统的爱情、婚恋以及家庭幽默为主题，而多为背叛、谋杀，甚至恐怖等“黑色”主题。 This is a new wave of writing in which there's no happy ending, child-rearing or emotional journey of unrequited love, but rather crime, mystery, plot twists and intrigue – psychological thrillers in the truest sense. These stories are typically nestled between book covers which have swapped pastels, ethereal decoration and dreamy window-gazers for black, broken glass, and the faces of petrified females. Predictably, and in true 'chick' style, these stories usually have some kind of relationship at their core, and for this reason are sometimes described as marriage thrillers, often based on the idea that those closest to us might be harboring dark and unpleasant secrets. | 
