Thats interesting youve found it in thrillers also. Do you care about the romance or kinda just accept it as being an unavoidable thing?

I personally and working on 2 Scifi, an urban fantasy/paranormal, and a paranormal book where I'm making conscious decisions away from character romance as a subplot (not making any celebate by any means, im just not addressing any of it on page and leaving that to the read to decide if they truely care about assigning a sexuality or sexual experience level to them) because I find the lack of non romance annoying. I have friendship plots, which some will probably construe as romance, but I'm personally not writing with that being the intent.

Many of the books I've read are heavily obvious about it being romance and not friendship, which I'd personally rather read a friendship focused book over relationship drama.