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The Awakening Spice Level and Content Notes

By Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti. Last checked .

Spice level

3/5

Open door

“One explicitly detailed sex scene”

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).
  • You want dragons, vampires and werewolves, as the publisher's description puts it.
  • You want to start a series: this is book 1 of Zodiac Academy.

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: "some").
  • You are choosing for a younger teen: Common Sense Media rates it 17+.

Content notes

  • Violence: Vampires feed on students without consent; fights at school. Common Sense Media rates Violence & Scariness “some”. “Vampires feed on the twins regularly without consent.” (Common Sense Media)
  • Strong language: Near-constant strong swearing. Common Sense Media rates Language “a lot”. “Near-constant swearing: "f--k" and variations” (Common Sense Media)

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

Tropes and creatures

Only tags the publisher’s own description names, with its wording.

  • Dragons“Dragons, Vampires, Werewolves, Sirens, Pegasus and more” (source)
  • Vampires“Dragons, Vampires, Werewolves, Sirens, Pegasus and more” (source)
  • Werewolves“Dragons, Vampires, Werewolves, Sirens, Pegasus and more” (source)
  • Fae“And it turns out, I’m Fae.” (source)
  • Slow burn“Slow burn romance” (source)
  • Enemies to lovers“Enemies to lovers” (source)
  • Forbidden romance“Forbidden Love” (source)

Same series: Zodiac Academy

The next book is Ruthless Fae.

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.