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Is Throne of Glass Spicy?
It depends where you are in the series. Throne of Glass itself is essentially clean — kissing, charged looks, and no on-page sex. The series becomes genuinely spicy later.
It depends
🌶 Cozy
Book 1 only — see below
Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas — Throne of Glass, Book 1 · Full book details →
View on AmazonHow the heat changes across the series
Books 1-3 stay YA in heat. The shift begins with Queen of Shadows (book 4), and Empire of Storms (book 5) is where the series becomes fully explicit and stays there through Kingdom of Ash.
Want more or less spice?
Want it hotter?
- Daughter of No Worlds
by Carissa Broadbent
🌶🌶 SteamyAmazon → - The Shadows Between Us
by Tricia Levenseller
🌶🌶 SteamyAmazon → - A Court of Frost and Starlight
by Sarah J. Maas
🌶🌶 SteamyAmazon →
Cool it down?
- A Far Wilder Magic
by Allison Saft
CleanAmazon → - Bookshops & Bonedust
by Travis Baldree
CleanAmazon → - Escaping from Houdini
by Kerri Maniscalco
CleanAmazon →