How spicy is This Could Be Us?
by Kennedy Ryan
Sources for these ratings
- bookbruin.wordpress.com: Lists tropes including found family, single parent, slow burn and forbidden romance, and notes content warnings for embezzlement, prison time, grief, infidelity and a child's seizure. Covers tropes and content warnings.
- ashareads.com: Describes a slow-burn romance that sits behind the lead's self-love and healing arc, with themes of motherhood and forbidden love. Covers tropes.
- readandwright.com: Gives a numeric spice rating for the book but no detail on what the sexual content actually involves. Covers spice level.
- thindbooks.wordpress.com: Lists friends to lovers, forbidden love, and slow burn as the book's tropes, with a long build before the couple gets together. Covers tropes.
Tropes
Content warnings (1)
- Death of loved one (minor, estimate)
Facts
- Point of view:
- Not enough data
- Ending:
- Not enough data
- Standalone or series:
- Not enough data
- Series completed:
- Not enough data
- Darkness:
- Not enough data
- Pairing:
- Not enough data
Spice: about 3/5 (Moderate, estimate)
Kindle Unlimited: Not checked yet
Content warnings: Death of loved one (estimate)
Based on 4 sources. How we rate
Like this but spicier
- Scarred: Also forbidden love; spice 4/5 vs about 3/5 here
- Shadow in the Ember: Also slow burn; spice about 4/5 vs about 3/5 here
- The Dare: Also slow burn; spice about 4/5 vs about 3/5 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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