How spicy is Taste of Gold and Iron?

Sources for these ratings

• deedireads.com: Notes a slow-burn romance between a prince and his assigned bodyguard, says the book is a standalone, and flags anxiety and mental illness as themes. Covers tropes, content warnings and reading order.
• kaylcastle.wordpress.com: Notes a slow-burn romance with witty banter between friends, third-person limited narration that switches between characters' viewpoints, and little explicit sexual content. Covers spice level, tropes and point of view.
• writingbookishnotes.wordpress.com: Notes content warnings including panic attacks, gaslighting, deaths, threatened amputation, and animal deaths, and describes an enemies-to-lovers-style slow burn with a bodyguard-and-valet dynamic. Covers tropes, content warnings and reading order.
• 1girl2manybooks.wordpress.com: Notes the book is standalone though set in the same world as the author's other work, and lists a plot premise of a guild break-in investigation with a reluctant bodyguard pairing. Covers tropes and reading order.
• lesserjoke.home.blog: Notes the story is told in third-person limited narration, shifting between the prince and his valet/bodyguard, and mentions the prince's panic attacks as a theme. Covers content warnings and point of view.
• thegreatbookwyrm.home.blog: Notes a political intrigue plot with a slow-burn romance, and lists content warnings for character death, violence, kidnapping, anxiety attacks, and physical and verbal abuse. Covers tropes and content warnings.
• aliteraryescape.com: Describes a fantasy plot in which a royal sibling investigates a guild break-in alongside a reluctant bodyguard, and lists enemies-to-lovers dynamics among its tropes. Covers tropes.
• bookstacked.com: Notes the book has one sex scene near the end and mentions violence elsewhere in the text. Covers spice level.

Tropes

• Bodyguard
• Slow burn

Facts

Point of view:

Third person

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

• Shadow in the Ember: Also slow burn; spice about 4/5 vs about 1–2/5 here
• The Dare: Also slow burn; spice about 4/5 vs about 1–2/5 here
• Twisted Lies: Also slow burn; spice about 5/5 vs about 1–2/5 here

Where to get it

• Bookshop.org

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