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Spicy romantasy booksFae, monsters and magic, with real heat.
26 spicy romantasy and fantasy romance books, ranked from the most explicit down. The big names are here, like ACOTAR, From Blood and Ash and Neon Gods, next to darker indie picks.
Spice and darkness each get a score out of 5. Read the trigger warnings before you start. Some of these go very dark.
Spicy romantasy books, ranked by spice
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1.Her Soul to Take
Harley Laroux
Harley Laroux. A ghost hunter summons a demon, and he wants her soul.
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2.Midnight Fae Academy
Lexi C. Foss
Lexi C. Foss. An Earth Fae is dragged into an academy of the dark arts, vampires and cruel fae.
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3.Hell Fae Captive
Lexi C. Foss
Lexi C. Foss. A halfling bargained to Lucifer, the Hell Fae King, and thrown into his deadly bride trials.
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5.Quicksilver
Callie Hart
Callie Hart's fae romance. The hero is called Kingfisher, and the heat is real.
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7.Gothikana
RuNyx
RuNyx. A secretive gothic university, a professor called Vad and a disappearance nobody solved.
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8.Fighting Destiny
Amelia Hutchins
Amelia Hutchins. A witch hunts a fae killer while the Dark Fae prince tries to own her.
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9.Playing with Monsters
Amelia Hutchins
Amelia Hutchins. Lena comes home to her coven for The Harvest, and the monster they hid from finds them.
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10.The Emperor's Enemy
Jasmine Mas
Jasmine Mas. A Knight Mage hunted by a sadistic emperor, and she's hunting him back.
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11.Throne of the Fallen
Kerri Maniscalco
A spicy standalone with a demon prince, set in the Kingdom of the Wicked world.
Spoiler note: read after the Kingdom of the Wicked trilogy.
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13.When the Moon Hatched
Sarah A. Parker
Dragons, a heroine who kills for a living and a very dark world.
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17.A Court of Mist and Fury
Sarah J. Maas
Book two of ACOTAR. When readers say the series gets spicy, this is the one they mean.
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18.From Blood and Ash
Jennifer L. Armentrout
Poppy is the Maiden, kept untouched for the gods. Then her new guard, Hawke, turns up.
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19.A Shadow in the Ember
Jennifer L. Armentrout
Set in the world before From Blood and Ash, and hotter than the main series.
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21.A Touch of Darkness
Scarlett St. Clair
Hades and Persephone, set in a modern world run by Greek gods.
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22.The Bridge Kingdom
Danielle L. Jensen
A spy princess, married to the king she was sent to destroy.
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23.House of Earth and Blood
Sarah J. Maas
Sarah J. Maas in a modern city of fae and angels, with a murder to solve.
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24.A Deal with the Elf King
Elise Kova
A cosy standalone. A village healer is chosen as the Elf King's bride.
Romantasy spice levels explained
Our spice scale runs from 1 to 5. 1 is closed door, or close to it. 3 is open door, where the scene stays on the page. 5 is frequent and graphic.
Nothing on this list scores under 3. Darkness has its own score, so a book can be very spicy without being very dark.
More on how we rate spice and darkness, or browse the spice 5 shelf.
Read the warnings first
Every pick links to its own warning page, and the trigger warnings A to Z explains every flag we use. Filter the whole library by spice and darkness.
Questions readers actually ask
What is the spiciest romantasy book?
On this list, Neon Gods is the spiciest at 5 out of 5.
What does spice level mean?
Spice level is how much sex is on the page and how explicit it is. On our scale, 1 is closed door and 5 is frequent and graphic.
Are Fourth Wing and ACOTAR spicy?
Both are 3 out of 5 on our scale. A Court of Mist and Fury, the second ACOTAR book, is the one most readers call the spiciest.
Is there spicy romantasy on Kindle Unlimited?
Some of the indie picks are on Kindle Unlimited, but that changes often. Check each book on Amazon before you borrow it.