How spicy is Practice Makes Perfect?
by Sarah Adams
Spice: 1/5 (Closed door)
Kindle Unlimited: Not checked yet
Content warnings: Grief, Death of parent
Based on 7 sources. How we rate
Sources for these ratings
- coffeewithsteph.com: Describes the book as closed door, lists tropes such as friends-to-lovers, bodyguard romance, and dating lessons, and notes it works as a standalone. Covers spice level, tropes and reading order.
- youhavetoreadthisnow.com: Notes the book has no explicit scenes but more romantic heat than an earlier title, names fake dating as a trope, and says it can be read standalone with spoilers. Covers spice level, tropes and reading order.
- goodeyreads.com: Notes content warnings for a past parental death and a toxic childhood, and lists a friends-to-lovers romance with a bodyguard love interest. Covers tropes and content warnings.
- pastmidnights.com: Lists tropes of good girl/bad boy, fake dating, and small town, and notes the sex scene is closed door with the fake dating kept brief. Covers spice level and tropes.
- popthebutterfly.wordpress.com: Describes a closed-door romance with only slight sexual content and flags grief, parental death, sickness and emotional abuse as content warnings. Covers spice level and content warnings.
- foodforthoughtreviews.com: Notes content warnings for emotional abuse, grief, stalking, and a parent's death, which the page says are handled in light tones. Covers content warnings.
- triggerwarningdatabase.com: Notes that the book recounts the death of the characters' parents, flagging bereavement as a content-warning topic. Covers content warnings.
Tropes
Content warnings (2)
- Grief (moderate)
- Death of parent (minor)
Facts
- Point of view:
- Not enough data
- Ending:
- Not enough data
- Standalone or series:
- Standalone
- Series completed:
- Not a series
- Darkness:
- Not enough data
- Pairing:
- Not enough data
Like this but spicier
- Lovelight Farms: Also friends to lovers and fake dating; spice about 2–3/5 vs 1/5 here
- Fix Her Up: Also fake dating and small town; spice 4/5 vs 1/5 here
- The Fiancé Dilemma: Also fake dating and small town; spice 3/5 vs 1/5 here
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Ratings last checked Oct 19, 2026. The Kindle Unlimited line carries its own source or check date, when there is one.
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