*no spice* book recommendations (aka my favourite books ever)
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- čas přidán 22. 06. 2024
- all of my HOLY GRAIL book romance recommendations with NO SPICE/no smut in it - the non-spicy painfully slowburn or emotional ones are always my favourite
TIMESTAMPS:
1:03 holy grails
2:52 cutesy "so high school"
3:58 for my asian girlies
4:25 fade to black adult romance
6:27 love triangles
7:08 MY kind of romantasy
8:30 fantasies w/ romance
10:30 SLOOOOW & subtle (or just delulu)
12:13 misc
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As a christian girlie who loves romance thats exactly what i needed, thanks Sunny 💛
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Sameeee
YASSSS KWEEENNNN!!!! SAAAAAMMMEE!!!!💖💖💖
Thank you!!! I'm muslim and it's really hard to find romance books without spice 💞💞
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SAMMMMEEE😂
Same. I have books with smut and I just skip it. It adds no plot in the storyline.
I’m assuming you’re looking for adult recs? I have a few that don’t
@@parnikajain3151list all lf them, gorgeous
No but when I tell you I’ve realized I also much prefer more emotional, swoony romances with no spice and thus was in such a need for a rec video like this 😭❤
Sameeee she made this video at the perfect time
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But I looked up some of these books and they have gay characters so as muslim we shouldn’t read them
As a Christian this is a God send!!! I’m a huge romance reader and don’t want to read explicit scenes. Thank you so much for this video!!
yesss! my christian self doesn’t have to skip over them explicit scenes 😩🤩❤️🎉!!
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So it's not just me!
Girl! God said fleee from sexual immorality 😂😂😭😭the scrolling that takes place is unreal😂
@@uyandadlamini6263 !!!
As a Christian I love to see those kind of recommendations 🥹💕
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Someone has finally heard our cries😭😭as a Christian girlie who reads romance, especially romantic fantasy I have been struggling 😭thank you so much!
Girl I recommend The Timekeeper's Secret! Best fantasy series ever with strong characters and amazing buidling romance with no spice!
girl i finally read better than the movies this past week and it had me giggling at like 3 am! it was sooo sweet 😭 i love the books with slow-burn moments of literally nothing happening because all the small scenes become such gems + my christian self always ends up speed-skimming explicit scenes lol. I love all the fluffy romances so ty!! ♥
Homegirl really did just drop the BEST the toppest of the tier book rec video ever.❤❤🎉
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more book reccomendation videos please!! (Not that my tbr is anywhere close to getting finished but still AHAHHA)
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Thank you! I'm asexual and it makes me incredibly frustrated and angry that it seems like ANY romance is reduced to sex only
help i was literally getting tired of all the smutty books- tysmmmm!! 💛💛💛
the scream i scrumpt when you started off with letters to the lost. it’s one of my absolute favourite books ever! i’m also someone who enjoys feeling emotional pain when reading lol. love the recs!
i love this!! i will always need more no spice/closed door romances! difficult to find, but it’s worth the search to avoid smut. thank you so much for this video!
Adding all the Brigid Kemmerer books to my more immediate "Read now!!!" TBR after having added them like months ago when I first saw you recommend them.
I would love to see you do a video about your favorite books and who you would fan-cast or just who you imagined while reading them.
thank you!!!! feels like every book is explicit these days and when you don't vibe with that sort of stuff it's hard to find anything to read. very grateful for this vid!!!!
I love this type of rec! For people that want to avoid spice all together, today tonight tomorrow, one for my enemy, and divine rivals all have spicy scenes (but all three are not a substantial part of their books)
Girrrl im saving this and opening my TBR list next time, I'm rewatching this video again def
TIMESTAMPS:
1:03 holy grails
2:52 cutesy "so high school"
3:58 for my asian girlies
4:25 fade to black adult romance
6:27 love triangles
7:08 MY kind of romantasy
8:30 fantasies w/ romance
10:30 SLOOOOW & subtle (or just delulu)
12:13 misc
Love love the clean romance book list Sunny!! I've been looking for clean romance books😊❤
Ugh FINE! I'm opening Goodreads and adding more books to my TBR! Also, I really love your rapid fire recommendation videos like this!
Thank you for sharing your recommendations! It is so hard to find books without spice these days, even in YA, which has always been my go-to “spice-free” reading. I will definitely be adding your recommendations to my TBR.
Thank you so much! I’m like you, spice just isn’t my thing but it is EVERYWHERE on book social media 😭
One of my favorite books without spice is The Girl Who Fell Beneath The Sea! It’s so good and the romance is so sweet
Read it like a week ago and I fell in love with it🌊
@@kurecirizek737 aw yay 😊
The way I just saw the notification for this video and I dropped what I was dooing to watch it
I love you Sunny!!
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For people who love the vibes of bridgerton but want no spice- Blackmoore and Edenbrooke by Julianne Donaldson!!! I'm obsessed with them, esp Also Jo & Laurie, which is basically like the ultimate fix it fanfic for Little Women (aka where we stop denying that Jo & Laurie belonggg together). It also has my fav book quotes of all time - "Love yourself like I love you, old friend" and "who knew a heart could break open so expansively"
YOURE SO REAL SUNNY ILY
I knew i was deep in sunny kim recs when i’ve read most of these 😭
BAHAHSHAHA THIS MADE LAUGH OUT LOUD
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Love this!! I really wish there were more really good no spice adult books, though because as I get older ya feels more disconnected but I still rather no spice to dodge
Ikr
Same! It is very frustraiting that all the clean romance books are YA, because I don't enjoy reading about guys in highschool as much as I did before.
Adult clean romance authors--Kourtney Keisel, Annah Conwell, Emma St. Clair, Jenny Proctor, Savannah Scott, Courtney Walsh, Bethany Turner...and more. Cute romance, witty dialogue, fun tropes and stories, etc.
@@littlehousema7162 oh wow thanks!
Ahh I was so excited to find quite a few of these books on Kindle Unlimited! Thanks for the recommendations Sunny
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Oh my gosh I never hear people talk about these Brigid Kemmerer books but they're SO good!!! I love them. Thanks for all the recommendations! I don't mind spice sometimes but it would be nice to change it up with some no spice too!
So many good recs! I’ve read a few of these and Lovely War is so good! Saving this video for future reference!
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sunny girl you are literally saving me during exam season with your videos I LOVE YOUUUU
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And I immediately subscribed!! Your recs are SO good, I've probably read about half of these already (which gives me so many exciting ones to look forward too).
I don't hate spice inherently, I just need to feel really connected to the characters and their relationship first (slow burns are sooo much juicier!!), and I've found that most books I read that feature it tend to overdo it, and forget that the genre was supposed to be romance, it just becomes a full on smut novel. At that point I just get super bored, and mentally check out lol.
As for recs, I'd say pretty much everything by Kasie West (Sunkissed, and Places We've Never Been are faves), Margaret Rogerson's first two books (An Enchantment of Ravens, and Sorcery of Thorns), and Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (I've only read book one so far tho and can't speak about sequels)
STOPP JACKS AND CORRICK DO IT FOR ME BRO I CANNOTT 😭😭😭
Love these recs! I loved some of these books and added some to my tbr :)
Thank you girl, I've added plenty of books on my tbr 📚!
I’m blessed that I found this video and your channel! Tysm🤎
thank you soo much for this! so many people only care about spice now…. 😕and its sad. but this video was great!!
Thank you for this video, I really needed it 💗
AHH THIS IS THE BEST GIFT EVERRRR
i feel like sarah dessen's books would also fit the slowburn and no spice category (especially just listen and the truth about forever), they're very emotional and just focus on the development of the relationship before anything even happens (which happens mostly near the very end)
4:32 OH MY GOODNESS! As a girl who doesn't like spice and has a hard time finding good books because of that, I was hoping to add more books to my list but was not expecting to see Choi Yeonjun here. I am a huge fan of TXT and Yeojun is my bias, girl you're gonna convince me to look more into this book.
just to add to the sentiment of other comments - thank you so much for making a video like this! I love romance but I feel like spice is such a big thing right now and it's hard to find good books without spice when that's not what I'm looking for like sometimes I just want something sweet!! lol amazing recs
OMG OMG YOU ARE GOING TO DEVOUR ANN LIANG'S BOOKS:
"This time it's real" & "I hope this doesn't find you" because omg I died especially I hope this doesn't find you because godddd the enemies to lovers in that one is STRONGGGGG!!
thanks so much for this video! kinda mad at myself because some of these books were already on my physical and digital TBH list, but now it gave me the courage to read them ASAP : )
Thank you for the recs bestie Sunny (:
Yes thank you for this, every 2024 new release I’ve read has had spice and it’s overwhelming when every book I pick up is like surprise spicy scene! I prefer no spice as well
Thank you so much for this!! It’s so hard to find no spice books as a Christian
If u haven’t already read Powerless, you gotta! It’s kinda a slowburn? You can say they are denial, but they still flirt with each other. Both of them also have a backstory that brings them closer.. or farther apart 🫢🫢 Either way, so good! 10 /10 recommend
I love On The Fence! I have read almost all of that authors books and they are all really good
Thanks for this. ❤ I feel like spice is just so unnecessary and sometimes even ruins the tension between the characters.
this was the perfect video for me as someone who doesn’t read spice💖 also, I’m in a terrible slump and I want to start the infernal devices trilogy but I was wondering if you would recommend it to get out of a reading slump? I’m a romance girly too so it has to have romance for me to enjoy it
Letters to the lost literally dragged me out of my reading slump
Great video💕. I didn't really like the first Truthwitch book so I haven't read the second book yet but know which couple you're talking about because I also predicted their romance.
@1:17 omg. after browsing my shelf, i was just thinking to myself why these books are not that popular because i loved both (letters to the lost & more than we can tell) after reading them years ago. and i'm also planning on rereading them because it's been a while and i don't remember much but i remember really, really enjoying them. so glad i found this video 🤍
You have amazing book taste!!
No, like, I needed this! I been DNF all the booktok recommended stuff. I love story and when the story is all smut I just skip every page.
Sameee
The fact that I knew it was Six of crows before you said it😂 but seriously NOTHING HAPPENS!! But it was one of the best romances ❤
This is great! Thank you so much. I need more of these recs
I recommend The Timeless Fate Series and The Water Walls!!!
Thank you !! I really want to get into romance, but i feel like i'm still too young for spice and so i avoid it. This is THE video i needed. ❤
You're so welcome!
the video I have always needed.
I’ve read some and quite a few are on my TBR…. So helpful. If I want to read spice, I’ll read icebreaker lol. If I don’t, I now have a huge list. Thanks again.
thank youu! great recs
Finally someone talks about these books! Brigid K. is so good, i recommend Dear Emmie Blue in new adult books. No spice but so good, Lia is amazing. And Kasie West books are perfect for no spice fans.
Yay! A vid with its own unique title LMFAO 😂 I click 🔥 Always love your recommendation vids and was delighted to see one about no spice 😍
ahh this came at the perfect time because I literally just finished reading if you could see the sun!! if you liked the book, i would highly recommend ann liang's other two books!! they are my current hyperfixation and i NEED more people to know about them🥺
It's so good!
I'm wondering about reading those books now but I'm very picky about my reads. No spice for me and personally I don't want to read books with very strong language either. How bad is the language and stuff in her books? Lol
YES IF YOU COULD SEE THE SUNN LOVE THAT BOOK
recent non-spice list of books I liked !
- Kit McBride Gets A Wife by Amy Barry (dual POV Historical Romance, matchmaking)
and these two I LOOOOVED (take my memory so I can read them again
I needed this! 🤎
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omg i wanna read tokyo ever after now because i lovee Yeonjun LOLL
Thank you for the help!!😊
guys if you like the so highschool category I would recommend Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert and I Hope This Doesn't Find You by Ann Liang, they're so adorable!
my favorite adult romances that have absolutely no spice and only a bit of kissing (but lots of fluff and love) are Cleopatra Margot’s books!
A book that isn't really a top tier / holy grail romance BUT it's one that I had SUCH a hyperfixation on and I can't wait to reread it bc I'm obsessed with its trope is the Gilded/Cursed duology by Marissa Meyer. It's in a high fantasy world based off of a fairytale retelling for Rumpelstiltskin (I most assuredly spelled that wrong) and it's a romance between a girl and this ghost? boy and after The Last Hours I needed more of that trope so there you go if you're like me. It's also got great banter between the characters and as far as I remember there's no smut but it is more on the adult side.
i wrote all of them down omg i will read them all🌺✨ thank u for the recs i don't like spice in books (it's super scary to read it public🥰)
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For the delulu girl says now kiss genre you might enjoy North and South girl!! if you want to get into classics with a book where almost nothing happens until the very end but uuuuugh the angst the tensionnnn I loved itt. Towards the end of the book I almost second guessed myself, I was like wait did I imagine everything, is this even a romance (sub)plot?
Is it a classic???
@@sunnykimreads Yes!
Yay I need this!!!
SHATTER ME WAS SO GOOOD
Thank you for this video❤
OMG i lovee Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry such a cute book
Yess I’m barely half way through the book and I alr want it to be adapted into a movie/show
yesss it's really good it deserves so much more recognition tbh
@@lavender-yi6wr frrrr its literally my comfort book at this point
I can also recommend Susan Dennard‘s other series the Luminaries, love story there is also really slow burn, Magic is interesting and the books are not to long. ❤
ive never heard of anyone talk about this series it’s actually so good i love it 😭😭🙏
Keep doing this recommedation videos! Im a Christian and really aprecciate videos like this! Specially since I feel like in general smut ruins what I really like about romance. Even if I wasnt christian I still wouldnt like smut, mainly because I like more the tension and build up! Plus the idea of them loving each other because of who they are and not for pleasure or their body yk.
This was very helpful, finding books without spice is really difficult nowadays. Thank you Sunny!!
Ive seen some people saying that the seven year slip does have open door spice, is that correct though? Im asking because I dont know anyone who has read it.
leigh bardugo makes books specifically for the delulu girls I feel because alex and darlington from ninth house makes me feel the same way even tho they literally have NO romantic interactions like none at all NOTHING HAPPENS yet they have been my roman empire for 2 years now I cry real tears for them
The rom commers also by Katherine Center, When in rome by Sarah Adams, the Selection by Kiera Cass, Ana and the french kiss by Stephanie Perkings, To sir with love by Lauren Layne, Emergency contact also by Lauren Layne, A novel love story by Ashley Poston ( there is one scene but it isn't very specific), Just haven't met you yet by Sophie Cousens, aaand those are all I can think about right now. 😊
Sunny I need you to read "Ferryman" by Claire McFall. It's a trilogy series, I'm currently reading the first book right now and I am OBSESSED with the characters.
thumbnail n editing (n content, obviously) always goes so hard
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Hey Sunny new subscriber here!! Just found you randomly nd now I am obsessed. ❤
Oh my goodness i literally adore the Tokyo ever after series! Yeonjun🤭🤭
For delulu girl "now kiss" I think The Year Of The Reaper by Makiiia Lucier is great. It is obvious that there is interest there, but nothing happens between the characters until the very very end, and the romantic feelings are swept aside throughout so I felt there was great buildup.
ILL READ IT
Yes! I loved that book and no one talks about it!
My main language is not english so i cant be sure to buy them if i can understand. So could you tell me what are the levels of these books.TYSM💛
would you consider turning this into a bookshelf on goodreads?
Thx sunny ☀️
Brigid Kemmerer might be my favorite author! If you are open to fantasy I highly recommend her other series.
Hi I have recently been watching your video abt book recommendations and I would like to request that can you make a video about books with Fantasy,Thriller and Enemies to Friends type not Lovers.I would be very grateful and I love you book recommendations and videos abt them thankyou
Currently reading The Crooked Kingdom and I need some fluff books when I'm finished 😭.
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I used to love Kasie West, i def recommend all of her older stuff, especially PS I like you and By Your Side
Thanks for the recommendations! One thing I'd note is that the Shatter Me series and Once Upon a Broken Heart are not 0 spice. I suppose s3x doesn’t happen on page, but if makeout sences ect. aren't your thing, (they aren't for me, haha) then I'd maybe look elsewhere.
Yes this is a struggle for me. I really prefer no spice at all and no strong language and books like that are so hard to find these days 😩