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

[bhelm]

For a second I thought ACOTAR was a food product and you thinking it was spicy and it not being spicy was you discovering a food allergy 😅

[narutogirly]

Raise your hand if you want to steal those earrings cause they are super cute

[erinbathie-moore]

Tbh, I've been so desensitised by fanfiction, that the only way to make me flustered is have them be fluffy and wholesome (like forehead kisses) 😅😂

[vanessar.]

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."

[laurdesz]

There was a time on tiktok back in... idk sometime between 2021 and 2022, where fandom and booktok started overlapping on fyps, and, because of people talking about how "spicy" acotar was, a trend got started where people who frequent fandom soaces had to read some of the scenes out loud to a friend. Needless to say, a lot of us never even flinched... nor did the friends 😂

Explicit scenes in writing definitepy arent for everyone, but it is really funny to me how there is such a big difference in whats considered extreme between different types of reading nerds [affectionate].

[blazinbethpheonixgirl]

I remember thinking it had no spice when I began book 2 and asked my teacher if I could do my book report to it. He decided to pick a random section of it to read to confirm it was as tame as I said it was and flipped to one of the most *spicy* pages in the entire book. I then for years thought it can't get worse than this. I just got Kindle Unlimited, wish me luck.

[mouhitorinoboku]

i'm actually relieved when i hear people say they dont like spicy scenes-- because i personally hate writing them. I'm working on a story rn, and it keeps going back and forth in my head:
what age is this aimed at? to much violence and language for YA, not enough smutt for adult. characters are too young for adult, but it's too mature for YA... im in a gray area inbetween, but i don't want to go fully into adult territory because i HATE writing SMUT and i'd much rather focus on emotional relationships than write the physical stuff that feels like a cheap and shallow replacement for actual relationships to me.

[Theturtleowl]

Me, reading YAOI and smut mangas: "What's a spice?"

[itz_genesis]

I totally get what you're saying!
Whenever I read books I get so uncomfortable with those scenes and what not so I try to just skim over it to catch important parts of the plot/story and not the... yeah

[kweeniepiez]

me growing up on tumblr and aO3 where the smut is literally 5k+ word chapters lmaooo

[PastelPeach]

The first three books have so little spice that I wouldn’t even consider them to be within the spice category. They’re just adult romance. But there were no large sex scenes so hopefully you didn’t skip vital stuff 😂 The longest scene is in ACOMAF and it’s like maybe two pages. ACOSF is a whole different story though

[Nioriel]

Ohhh boy as someone who's read Pamela Palmer and Nora Roberts books Acotar is nothing. But romance novels definitely arent for everyone you gotta find what you like. 😆

[JessicasCreativeSpot]

I get bothered when the story line continues through the spicy scene, it's harder to skip when you know you'll miss out on plot information!

[deathofanartist]

As an allosexual person with a few asexual friends, I'm now the "pre-reader" telling them what pages they can skip and what the spice level is. I'm not a huge fan of erotica bits and also just want them to get back to the story, because there's a time and place for me and the middle of a battle is not it, but now I feel like it's my job to push through.

[forestenrory]

girl where’d you get your earrings??? so cool!!!

[anjab-]

No for real. It's actually so funny. I come from a very spicy book side with mainly dark romance and trigger warnings left and right for books and started the acotar series super excited about the spicy scenes that are possible with the fantasy element (they're my first fantasy books) and was like "that's.. that's it? No way!" I even texted my friend and asked if they get more explicit down the road 😂

[RowanWolf]

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.

[inaskulsumhabib]

I get you im not really into spice either but i really like the fantasy genre it always just has the best plots. I also noticed that spicy scenes has actually increased in the fantasy genre specifically so yeah its difficult to find a good fantasy read these days

[dorolicious]

As I started with Yaoi, Hentai, smut fanfics in the old days, I definitely can say: we are surprised if the story has a plot! 😂

[nikki]

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