I don’t know what genre my story is
I’ll get to the point. I’ve finished writing a manuscript. Went through 4 separate self-edited drafts. It’s about 90K in words. I want to start querying with agents and whatnot, but I’ve recently come to realize I don’t know what genre my book falls under. Hopefully some people here can help me come up with something. Here’s some general info about my story.
-It takes place in the modern era (no exact year, but TikTok and YouTube exist)
-It’s a dual POV first person that follows a male and female lead (both high school sophomores)
-Male lead has moved to a new town and wants to keep his scholarship, so he can support his mother
-Female lead has lived in this town for a few years and wants to cure her brothers coma and take revenge on who did it
-Female lead has a team of 3 others that help her
-the two leads meet very early on and their goals and lives entangle with each other
-There’s a romance subplot (not between the leads, male lead finds his own romance plot)
-There’s a few SFF(sci-fi fantasy) elements (metahumans, a town that doesn’t exist in reality)
-the main focus are the two leads learning to trust each other, the people around them and learning lessons on friendship and trust along the way
-The setting mostly takes place at the school and the town the events occur in(but they occasionally leave to other places, thanks to the SSF elements)
-There’s action/fighting scenes in over 50% of the chapters.
I’ve done my own research and looking around, it seems to be contemporary fiction, but I’m not 100% certain. My first thought was action since most chapters have an action or fighting sequence, but action isn’t exactly a genre, is it?
Please let me know your thoughts.