How spicy is When You Least Expect It?

Sources for these ratings

• featheredturtlepress.wordpress.com: Lists a friends-to-lovers lesbian contemporary romance and notes physical violence, injuries, cheating, and consensual, mildly explicit sex between adults. Covers spice level, pairing and tropes.
• thelesbianreview.com: Describes a holiday romance between two women who are close friends, with tags for a medium heat level, a slow burn, and friends-to-lovers. Covers spice level, pairing and tropes.
• skallenauthor.substack.com: Describes a sapphic romance that develops from friendship into a romantic pairing at a slow pace, with a cozy contemporary setting. Covers pairing and tropes.
• lesbrary.com: Notes the book has few explicit sexual scenes, which the page flags as useful information for readers who care about that. Covers spice level.
• lezreviewbooks.com: Lists friends-to-lovers, slow-burn, coming-out, and Christmas tropes, along with bisexuality and a lawyer character, and notes a long, gradual build to the romance. Covers tropes.
• queerlitloft.com: Describes the book as a slow-burn friends-to-lovers romance in which the central relationship develops gradually from friendship. Covers tropes.

Tropes

• Friends to lovers
• Slow burn

Facts

Point of view:

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Standalone or series:

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Darkness:

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Pairing:

F/F

Like this but spicier

• Shadow in the Ember: Also slow burn; spice about 4/5 vs 2/5 here
• The Dare: Also slow burn; spice about 4/5 vs 2/5 here
• You Had Me at Hola: Also friends to lovers; spice 3/5 vs 2/5 here

Where to get it

• Bookshop.org

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