A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES isn't spicy, apparently #booktube

lol Kresley Cole is spicy. ACOTAR is Chipotle corn-roasted salsa spicy.

You can't top 90s black urban erotica.....nobody's topping Zane....they made her book the sex conicals into a Cinemax series.

Wattpad veteran here, acotar is vanilla.

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I mean I used to watch the vaginal fantasy book club so if it’s not involving Cthulhu and his many throbbing tentacles…

I’ve spent a lot of time reading romance, so when people started going off about ACOTAR being so spicy and freaking out about fairy p*rn, etc, I was honestly baffled and curious whether we had read the same book 😂🤦‍♀️ ACOSF is another thing entirely

I used to believe that books are mediums that teach you stuff until i came across Stephanie Meyer and SJM.
I was thirteenth when i first read this crap, not knowing that it had so much sex in it.

I have no problem with erotica, it just seems like this people just wanted to write about people fucking, while maybe saving a kingdom or two.

The only thing i hear about ACOTAR is how sexy it is, nothing more. No interesting plot, or characters or relationships. (Because, let's be honest, everyone prefers porn disguised as fanatsy that a story that actually requires you to think)

Please talk about something else. There is more to life than getting knocked up while falling from the sky. Jesus.

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Im 32 and i still skip swaths of spicy scenes. Sometimes ill read them, but theyre pretty boring to me. Ill typically read the first one to see how the characters interact and/or how the author portrays them and after than ill usually skip ahead.

Case in point. I adore the dark hunter series by Sherrilyn Kenyon. Its the greek mthos for me. I adore it. But many of the graphic spicy scenes ill skip. Her later books there's fewer scenes, (though each one has at least one still) but theyre not as detailed as the first books and are less pages (i think i haven't read them since Styxx. His story was really heartbreaking honestly and miserable. Not the writing, just his life.)

Ha!
I believe it. And you’re not the only person to be surprised by it being on the low end of spice xD

I get goosebumps when characters in pern kiss, spicy books are still way beyond my comfort 😅

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I didn't realize just how spicy the stuff I was reading was until I read Silver Flames and considered it fairly tame...

When you say spicy, are you talking about erotica or is it p0rnographic?

Girl, you need to read the IAD series by Kresley Cole trust me (just skip the first book)

What annoys me is, every person’s spice level rating is DIFFERENT and people act like it’s “meant” to be the same. People who call self proclaimed “low spice books” too spicy often get dissed hard by the book community and it’s like wtf? What may not be spicy for you may be spicy for someone else and that is OKAY. What isn’t okay is being judgemental.

I've only read the three first books of the series. Before starting the third one I've heard that this one was really spicy, especially one particular scene. And when I read this scene, I was like "...That's it ?! This is the spicy scene ?". I won't say that I was disapointed, but I was expecting something else. I read fantasy, romantasy, Fantastic and Romance, and trust me when I say that New Romance books are way spicier than that 😆😆

Wait till she discovers dark romance.

woah, don’t read Nalini Singh, or Sherrilyn Kenyon

I'm now curious what you actually mean by "spice". Like: primarily does it mean adult/erotic content (that was my first presumption visa vie fanfic websites), or violence/horror, or insensitivity toward vulnerable groups (aka non-PC content), or trauma triggering, or .. like .. who prexactly will be clutching their pearls over the kinds of things you classify as "spicy" in mainstream books these days?

I used to read erotics, not because I was crazy about them, I was interested in how you can portrait romance and closure in many different ways. I planned on writing my own book one day and I read all the genres I had problems with. And now when I see books like acotar my brain is happy. I'm resting from that trauma that erotics were 😅

I loved the first half of throne of glass and read ACOTAR but I dunno I felt it just went downhill with to big a focus on romance when the world building was so beautiful. Also both were available in my Middle/High school library (:

From what I've heard, ACOTAR is not so much super spicy as it is too spicy to be labelled YA and should be considered New Adult or just Adult. But I haven't read it, so I can't say for sure.

Oh, I know there's spicery stuff out there. I've been on the internet for 2 seconds. But there's a MAJOR difference between spicy books and MAINSTREAM spicy books. The problem with mainstream spicy is you generally don't know going in, whereas it's hard to come accidentally come across hardcore erotica unless you're actively looking for it. I personally think mainstream puts too much emphasis on falling in lust rather then falling in love.

I used to think that too until I read a house of blood and earth. And then I went on Ao3.

If you weren’t comfortable with the spice level, then it certainly was too spicy. People’s perceptions can differ greatly, so it’s always best to just listen to yourself and don’t force it. Skipping spice in favor of the story is not the worst thing to do. :3

My mum once accidentally got me an erotic novel when I was like 12 just because the title was Cat's Lair or something like that and she thought it was just some sort of cat book. Once I made it to an erotic part of the book, I put it down and gave it to my older stepsisters when they visited. They apparently fought over it. I physically could not continue reading it because it was far too much for me.😅

When I was 11 my guidance counselor gave me "Clan of the Cave Bears" and while that was not the first explicit series I read, the scene in "The Mammoth Hunters" where they get "inspired" by watching a couple mammoths go at it (in graphic, explicit detail) will haunt me for all of time.

After that, fanfic was nothing, and all the published romance novels with "engorged members" and "opening the petals of her lady flower" just sounded crazy. Like you can just say it. You're describing it so thoroughly. Why can't you just say it? You're describing a woman being dragged into a dungeon and dp-d by drunken bandits but using words like "tool" and "manhood" like that somehow makes it better? We know what it is! Good lord.

Then some authors will describe a kiss so sensually, so beautifully, it hits better than a thousand clumsy ravishings in a thousand other novels .....🥹

I recently bought the entire 5 book set of Acotar. I'll read it after my exams...

It’s so funny hearing someone pronounce comfortable the way it’s spelled, rather than “comfturble” haha

Not me thinking acotar is a spice. It shou

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I have a VERY HIGH spice threshold, I've read stuff that would make ACTUAL pirates of the 1700s blush and wonder what hell-slum I came from. My only druthers about it: I HATE poorly-written spiciness of ANY heat level. If it's just so obvious that the author has no real-world experience with matters of carnal relations as a foundation to build from (you can justifiably get pretty outlandish after you know how REALITY works), and that their only experience is from watching anime and p0rn, then I drop the book and never pick it up again. No reviews, no nothing, just off into the Void it goes, and we never speak of it again.

Now i wonder what is on the high end of spicy fantasy 😁

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It was sold to me as fairy p*rn. What I got was trauma.

It’s definitely on the upper end considering it was marketed as a YA series

I could be wrong, but I think that partly the deal with ACOTAR that makes people think it’s more spicy than it is is that it is one of the more spicy books marketed as YA. Most of the fantasy romance that kicks it up a notch is not categorized or marketed in the same way.

I was told it was spicy, read it and went "That wasn't spicy at all! That was salt and pepper at best! Lucien was pretty sassy."

Just like me with shows- I skip all the s3x scenes cause just... no. Like I watched Elite (the first 3 seasons and I'm currently watching the fourth) and I loved it but I skiped SO MUCH 💀

Ya see the thing is most of us casuals like many white people think that salt is spicy. Then we have actual spice and we say heck no.... for a while

When I read a book for the first time, I thought it was like super spicy. I returned to it after a few years and more reading experiences and would now consider it on the blander spectrum of what I have read 😅😅

Having read the Kushiel's Legacy series by Jacqueline Carey, most recommendations from booktok have been mild spice at best. (TW: Kushiel's Dart includes a lot of bdsm throughout, and r*pe in the middle section.)

Acotar is pretty low spice, true. But if what you’re expecting is NO spice, the sucker punch effect makes it feel super spicy

Everyone has different spice levels. There is no shame in that

It’s the worst when somehow they make a big plot move or discussion during the spicy scenes so you can’t skip them as easily. I skip them on tv too (although hiiighly prefer shows and movies without it or AT LEAST milder than idk the average hbo show lol) and I always end up missing something because of it 😬

To me it just ruins it, it seems too personal and I feel secondhand embarrasment for the actors. It also feels like a cheap move to get viewership, but is that the viewership they want? Idk. As someone who still likes romance, K-dramas saved my life. It’s very wholesome! Could talk ages about this topic though!

Honestly I was so disappointed when I started book 1, I forget just how spicy I read now 😅

Did that once. Skipped spicy scenes of a book cough fanfiction cough I was reading. Then cam back a few months later and read it in its entirety

Even Silver Flames is tame compared to something like Legacy of the Nine Realms series.

I mean, in fairness, there's a bunch of Nesta's book that's just like SMUT SMUT SMUT and not doing anything for the plot, so like...I skipped all those sections too because it may be spicy but there's only so much variation to what can happen in smut and I'm not just here for the porn