Thank you!!! I'm muslim and it's really hard to find romance books without spice 💞💞

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5 күн бұрын

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@stormy3384

5 күн бұрын

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No but when I tell you I’ve realized I also much prefer more emotional, swoony romances with no spice and thus was in such a need for a rec video like this 😭❤

@mikyahperry8121

5 күн бұрын

Sameeee she made this video at the perfect time

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As a christian girlie who loves romance thats exactly what i needed, thanks Sunny 💛

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girl i finally read better than the movies this past week and it had me giggling at like 3 am! it was sooo sweet 😭 i love the books with slow-burn moments of literally nothing happening because all the small scenes become such gems + my christian self always ends up speed-skimming explicit scenes lol. I love all the fluffy romances so ty!! ♥

Adding all the Brigid Kemmerer books to my more immediate "Read now!!!" TBR after having added them like months ago when I first saw you recommend them.

yesss! my christian self doesn’t have to skip over them explicit scenes 😩🤩❤️🎉!!

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@elliedee123

2 күн бұрын

So it's not just me!

Homegirl really did just drop the BEST the toppest of the tier book rec video ever.❤❤🎉

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more book reccomendation videos please!! (Not that my tbr is anywhere close to getting finished but still AHAHHA)

@sunnykimreads

5 күн бұрын

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I would love to see you do a video about your favorite books and who you would fan-cast or just who you imagined while reading them.

help i was literally getting tired of all the smutty books- tysmmmm!! 💛💛💛

I knew i was deep in sunny kim recs when i’ve read most of these 😭

@sunnykimreads

3 күн бұрын

BAHAHSHAHA THIS MADE LAUGH OUT LOUD

@saltairtherustonyourdoor9944

2 күн бұрын

@@sunnykimreadsLOVE UU 💖

As a Christian I love to see those kind of recommendations 🥹💕

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i love this!! i will always need more no spice/closed door romances! difficult to find, but it’s worth the search to avoid smut. thank you so much for this video!

Love this!! I really wish there were more really good no spice adult books, though because as I get older ya feels more disconnected but I still rather no spice to dodge

@sunnykimreads

5 күн бұрын

Ikr

The way I just saw the notification for this video and I dropped what I was dooing to watch it I love you Sunny!!

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sunny girl you are literally saving me during exam season with your videos I LOVE YOUUUU

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i feel like sarah dessen's books would also fit the slowburn and no spice category (especially just listen and the truth about forever), they're very emotional and just focus on the development of the relationship before anything even happens (which happens mostly near the very end)

For people who love the vibes of bridgerton but want no spice- Blackmoore and Edenbrooke by Julianne Donaldson!!! I'm obsessed with them, esp Also Jo & Laurie, which is basically like the ultimate fix it fanfic for Little Women (aka where we stop denying that Jo & Laurie belonggg together). It also has my fav book quotes of all time - "Love yourself like I love you, old friend" and "who knew a heart could break open so expansively"

leigh bardugo makes books specifically for the delulu girls I feel because alex and darlington from ninth house makes me feel the same way even tho they literally have NO romantic interactions like none at all NOTHING HAPPENS yet they have been my roman empire for 2 years now I cry real tears for them

So many good recs! I’ve read a few of these and Lovely War is so good! Saving this video for future reference!

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Thank you! I'm asexual and it makes me incredibly frustrated and angry that it seems like ANY romance is reduced to sex only

Ahh I was so excited to find quite a few of these books on Kindle Unlimited! Thanks for the recommendations Sunny

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Love love the clean romance book list Sunny!! I've been looking for clean romance books😊❤

the scream i scrumpt when you started off with letters to the lost. it’s one of my absolute favourite books ever! i’m also someone who enjoys feeling emotional pain when reading lol. love the recs!

Oh my gosh I never hear people talk about these Brigid Kemmerer books but they're SO good!!! I love them. Thanks for all the recommendations! I don't mind spice sometimes but it would be nice to change it up with some no spice too!

And I immediately subscribed!! Your recs are SO good, I've probably read about half of these already (which gives me so many exciting ones to look forward too). I don't hate spice inherently, I just need to feel really connected to the characters and their relationship first (slow burns are sooo much juicier!!), and I've found that most books I read that feature it tend to overdo it, and forget that the genre was supposed to be romance, it just becomes a full on smut novel. At that point I just get super bored, and mentally check out lol. As for recs, I'd say pretty much everything by Kasie West (Sunkissed, and Places We've Never Been are faves), Margaret Rogerson's first two books (An Enchantment of Ravens, and Sorcery of Thorns), and Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (I've only read book one so far tho and can't speak about sequels)

Thank you for this video, I really needed it 💗

I’m blessed that I found this video and your channel! Tysm🤎

No, like, I needed this! I been DNF all the booktok recommended stuff. I love story and when the story is all smut I just skip every page.

Thank you so much for this!! It’s so hard to find no spice books as a Christian

For the delulu girl says now kiss genre you might enjoy North and South girl!! if you want to get into classics with a book where almost nothing happens until the very end but uuuuugh the angst the tensionnnn I loved itt. Towards the end of the book I almost second guessed myself, I was like wait did I imagine everything, is this even a romance (sub)plot?

@sunnykimreads

5 күн бұрын

Is it a classic???

@lalu7922

5 күн бұрын

@@sunnykimreads Yes!

Thanks for this. ❤ I feel like spice is just so unnecessary and sometimes even ruins the tension between the characters.

I can also recommend Susan Dennard‘s other series the Luminaries, love story there is also really slow burn, Magic is interesting and the books are not to long. ❤

For delulu girl "now kiss" I think The Year Of The Reaper by Makiiia Lucier is great. It is obvious that there is interest there, but nothing happens between the characters until the very very end, and the romantic feelings are swept aside throughout so I felt there was great buildup.

@sunnykimreads

5 күн бұрын

ILL READ IT

@Anna-qy6rd

4 күн бұрын

Yes! I loved that book and no one talks about it!

I love this type of rec! For people that want to avoid spice all together, today tonight tomorrow, one for my enemy, and divine rivals all have spicy scenes (but all three are not a substantial part of their books)

Letters to the lost literally dragged me out of my reading slump

AHH THIS IS THE BEST GIFT EVERRRR

Thank you for the recs bestie Sunny (:

thank youu! great recs

ahh this came at the perfect time because I literally just finished reading if you could see the sun!! if you liked the book, i would highly recommend ann liang's other two books!! they are my current hyperfixation and i NEED more people to know about them🥺

@sunnykimreads

5 күн бұрын

It's so good!

A book that isn't really a top tier / holy grail romance BUT it's one that I had SUCH a hyperfixation on and I can't wait to reread it bc I'm obsessed with its trope is the Gilded/Cursed duology by Marissa Meyer. It's in a high fantasy world based off of a fairytale retelling for Rumpelstiltskin (I most assuredly spelled that wrong) and it's a romance between a girl and this ghost? boy and after The Last Hours I needed more of that trope so there you go if you're like me. It's also got great banter between the characters and as far as I remember there's no smut but it is more on the adult side.

my favorite adult romances that have absolutely no spice and only a bit of kissing (but lots of fluff and love) are Cleopatra Margot’s books!

this was the perfect video for me as someone who doesn’t read spice💖 also, I’m in a terrible slump and I want to start the infernal devices trilogy but I was wondering if you would recommend it to get out of a reading slump? I’m a romance girly too so it has to have romance for me to enjoy it

Great video💕. I didn't really like the first Truthwitch book so I haven't read the second book yet but know which couple you're talking about because I also predicted their romance.

I needed this! 🤎

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OMG i lovee Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry such a cute book

@Excellenceboka

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Yess I’m barely half way through the book and I alr want it to be adapted uni a movie/show

thumbnail n editing (n content, obviously) always goes so hard

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guys if you like the so highschool category I would recommend Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert and I Hope This Doesn't Find You by Ann Liang, they're so adorable!

Sunny I need you to read "Ferryman" by Claire McFall. It's a trilogy series, I'm currently reading the first book right now and I am OBSESSED with the characters.

Hey Sunny new subscriber here!! Just found you randomly nd now I am obsessed. ❤

I used to love Kasie West, i def recommend all of her older stuff, especially PS I like you and By Your Side

Thank you !! I really want to get into romance, but i feel like i'm still too young for spice and so i avoid it. This is THE video i needed. ❤

@sunnykimreads

5 күн бұрын

You're so welcome!

Yay! A vid with its own unique title LMFAO 😂 I click 🔥 Always love your recommendation vids and was delighted to see one about no spice 😍

delulu girl girl says "now kiss!" I highly recommend Counted With the Stars by Connilyn Cossette like barley anything is happening, stolen glance across the fire place , it is perfection I will leave you with that and a quote “My life was nothing but scattered rhythms and dissonant notes before I met you.” I highly recommend it’s amazing please give it a chance 🥰😘

I recommend Afterlove by Tanya Byrne. It's a sapphic love story split in two parts. The first is just girl meets girl and the girls have the softest most lovely romance ever (five stars five million trillion stars best romance ever and no spice) the second has more of a supernatural element / right person not enough time and there's a lot of conflict. I don't want to give spoilers but yeah. I liked the first part better than the second part bc the supernatural element was iffy for me. Books need to be either full on high fantasy or exclusively contemporary for me, so this one with just a tiny tiny bit of supernatural didn't do it for me. But the first part was so so lovely. My advice is read the first part then if you want read the second part

omg its like youtube read my mind because why did they know i need no spice recs

i wrote all of them down omg i will read them all🌺✨ thank u for the recs i don't like spice in books (it's super scary to read it public🥰)

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POWERLESS BY LAUREN ROBERTS!! (for delulu girl says "now kiss")

Hi I have recently been watching your video abt book recommendations and I would like to request that can you make a video about books with Fantasy,Thriller and Enemies to Friends type not Lovers.I would be very grateful and I love you book recommendations and videos abt them thankyou

Currently reading The Crooked Kingdom and I need some fluff books when I'm finished 😭.

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My top recs for no spice romances are when in rome and practice makes perfect. For the delulu category It’s def the og percy jackson series for me 🥹🫶🏼

Okay but I’ve legit had Fable on my bookshelf for months after finding it at Barnes randomly and thinking it would be good …. Looks like I must read it 😅

I’m sending you love❤❤❤

TIMESTAMPS: 1:03 holy grails 2:52 cutesy "so high school" 3:58 for my asian girlies 4:25 fade to black adult romance 6:27 love triangles 7:08 MY kind of romantasy 8:30 fantasies w/ romance 10:30 SLOOOOW & subtle (or just delulu) 12:13 misc

Daniel sharman supremacy

@sunnykimreads

5 күн бұрын

Exactly

yesss ngl i prefer no spice too 😘

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Just wanted to give the heads up for people that the infernal devices, the folk of the air, and fable (if memory serves me correctly) definitely have sex scenes. I think clockwork princess is does eventually fade to black but it still gets steamy! I remember skipping ahead in the queen of nothing because it was more than I was comfortable with. I wouldn't call them super spicy (it's basically just one scene), but the content is in there. I've read better than the movies, letters to the lost, and heartless and those are definitely smut free! Six of crows and the inheritance games also doesn't show anything more than kissing on page from my memory. Tokyo ever after is also no smut, but the sequel has a sex scene so know that going in. I see my fellow religious people in the comments and I see your efforts to cultivate virtue!

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omg academic rivals rec by the same author as if you could see the sun is: i hope this doesn't find you! (asian academic rivals!!)

Omg I'm First ✨

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How dare you say you read a book and the mmc reminded you JAEMIN 😡 now I’m forced to read it