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The number
0 Clean through 5 Scorching. Same labels as the scale.
Spice guides · 0–5 · same rubric every time
How spicy is it?
How spicy is a book? Sort By Cravings rates heat 0–5, from Clean to Scorching. Each guide answers the title in one line, then compares it on the same rubric so BookTok hype does not decide your night.
Ratings use the public Sort By Cravings scale. Not a publisher score. A card only appears after the number is published.
How to read a guide
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The comparison
Fourth Wing is 4/5 Spicy here. A Court of Thorns and Roses is 3/5 Moderate. We do not import other sites.
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Then the door
Amazon and Audible live on the guide. This hub only hands you the comfort check.
Start with the titles people actually type
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Shatter Me
Spice 1/5 — fade-to-black. Sweet, not open-door.
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Fourth Wing
Two major on-page scenes, both in the back half. The slow burn is the whole point..
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A Court of Thorns and Roses
Spice 3/5 — most of the heat lives in the middle third. ACOTAR is seduction, then.
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A Court of Mist and Fury
Spice 4/5 — the payoff is worth every page of tension.
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Haunting Adeline
Spice 5/5 — the hottest it gets. Lock the door.
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Credence
Spice 5/5 — slowest of slow burns for the first quarter, then a total commitment to.
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Icebreaker
Spice 4/5 — the payoff is worth every page of tension.
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The Love Hypothesis
Spice 3/5 — one big scene, lots of tension-building, and Hazelwood's famous.
Read the spice guide →Or pick tonight’s ceiling
Spice often climbs inside a series
The Empyrean
Fourth Wing4/5
Iron Flame4/5
Onyx Storm4/5
ACOTAR
ACOTAR3/5
ACOMAF4/5
ACOWAR4/5
Blood and Ash
Every how-spicy guide
A Court of Mist and Fury
Sarah J. Maas
4/5 Spicy
Guide →
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas
3/5 Moderate
Guide →
Credence
Penelope Douglas
5/5 Scorching
Guide →
Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros
4/5 Spicy
Guide →
From Blood and Ash
Jennifer L. Armentrout
4/5 Spicy
Guide →
Haunting Adeline
H.D. Carlton
5/5 Scorching
Guide →
Icebreaker
Hannah Grace
4/5 Spicy
Guide →
Shatter Me
Tahereh Mafi
1/5 Sweet
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The Love Hypothesis
Ali Hazelwood
3/5 Moderate
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Twisted Love
Ana Huang
4/5 Spicy
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No guide matches that. If we rate the book on /books/, the guide ships after the number is public.
Full SBC profiles: Shatter Me · Fourth Wing · A Court of Thorns and Roses · A Court of Mist and Fury · Haunting Adeline · Credence · Icebreaker · The Love Hypothesis · Twisted Love · From Blood and Ash
Spice guide questions
How spicy is a 1 vs a 4 on Sort By Cravings?
1/5 Sweet is fade-to-black or closed-door. 4/5 Spicy is frequent, graphic, explicitly detailed scenes. The same rubric is used on every guide.
Why is Fourth Wing 4/5 here and a different number on other sites?
Sort By Cravings rates frequency, explicitness, and how central intimacy is to the story. We do not import other directories. Fourth Wing is 4/5 Spicy on this site.
Do these spice guides contain spoilers?
Guides use tension bands and heat only. They do not dump plot.
Do you follow BookTok spice numbers?
No. BookTok is useful heat-of-the-moment. The guide is the comfort check before you pay.
How often are guides updated?
When a sequel changes a ladder or a rating is corrected. dateModified changes with the file.
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