How spicy is Don't Want You Like a Best Friend?

Sources for these ratings

• literaryliza.com: Describes a sapphic pairing of two young women in Victorian-era society and mentions a happily-ever-after ending, with no scene-level detail given. Covers spice level and pairing.
• tvinsider.com: Lists forbidden love, friends to lovers, opposites attract and slow burn as the book's tropes, and includes a spice meter reading. Covers spice level and tropes.
• alesbianandherlaptop.wordpress.com: Notes that the book is built on a friends-to-lovers trope, with the central relationship developing out of a close friendship into romance. Covers tropes.
• kirkusreviews.com: Says the book has light sexual content, with intensity coming mainly from the emotional bond between the two leads and the obstacles they face before a happy ending. Covers spice level.
• lesbrary.com: Notes that the book is a friends-to-lovers romance, with the reviewer saying the pair's mutual attraction is clear from the start. Covers tropes.
• lolasreviews.com: Notes a friends-to-lovers trope and a subplot in which the leads' parents are brought together and develop a romance of their own. Covers tropes.
• nonbinarylibrarian.com: Notes that the intimate scenes use ornate, figurative prose and fall between closed door and explicit, with little graphic detail. Covers spice level.

Tropes

• Friends to lovers

Facts

Point of view:

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Ending:

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Standalone or series:

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Series completed:

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Darkness:

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Pairing:

F/F (estimate)

Like this but spicier

• You Had Me at Hola: Also friends to lovers; spice 3/5 vs about 1–2/5 here
• Give Me More: Also friends to lovers; spice 4/5 vs about 1–2/5 here
• Count Your Lucky Stars: Also friends to lovers; spice about 3–4/5 vs about 1–2/5 here

Where to get it

• Bookshop.org

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