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Grim and Oro Spice Level and Content Notes

By Alex Aster. Last checked .

Spice level

3/5

Open door

“Sexual activity is described in some detail, erotically but without mentioning body parts, like kissing, caressing, being hard, manual stimulation to orgasm and genital penetration.”

Source: Common Sense Media, checked Oct 19, 2026. We place that description on the FaeShelf 0 to 5 spice scale.

Read it or skip it

Read it if

  • You want an open door romance with one or more explicit scenes (FaeShelf spice 3/5, from Common Sense Media's note).

Skip it if

  • You want romance without explicit sex (FaeShelf spice 3/5, from Common Sense Media's note).
  • You want to avoid violence on the page (listed by Common Sense Media, which rates Violence & Scariness: "a lot").

Content notes

  • Violence: Torture and maiming with magic. Common Sense Media rates Violence & Scariness “a lot”. “A child is tortured as punishment by having the skin on his back cut open by magical powers.” (Common Sense Media)
  • Strong language: Strong swearing. Common Sense Media rates Language “a lot”. “"S--t," "f--k," "f--king," "damned," "ass," the middle-finger gesture” (Common Sense Media)

A book missing from this list is not guaranteed to be free of that content.

Same series: Lightlark

How we checked this

This page draws on 3 source pages, each linked next to the fact it supports, last checked on Oct 19, 2026. Spice comes only from a named review or the author’s or publisher’s own content notes, quoted as published and placed on our 0 to 5 scale; reader shelves and fan sites are not used. Ratings change daily, so the Goodreads figure is a dated snapshot. Read more about our sources, or browse all books.