How spicy is that book?

Everybody rates books in chillies now, and nobody agrees on what the chillies mean. These are honest ratings on the same five-chilli scale we use on our own stories — so once you know where a book you have read sits, you know exactly what you are getting from anything on this site.

The scale

1 of 5 — Warm: Closed door — attraction and tension
2 of 5 — Steamy: A love scene or two, written for feeling
3 of 5 — Hot: Several explicit scenes, plainly written
4 of 5 — Scorching: Frequent, fully explicit, adventurous
5 of 5 — Filthy: Explicit throughout — the taboo is the point

The long version: spice levels explained.

A Court of Thorns and Roses
3/5 · Hot
Sarah J. Maas · A Court of Thorns and Roses
Book one is a three. Explicit, but only in a few places, and the rest of the book is tension. If somebody told you this series is filthy, they were talking about book two.

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