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The Exquisite Torment of Loving Your Enemy Spice Level and Content Notes

By Brigitte Knightley. Last checked .

Spice level

Not rated: no public source describes the sex content clearly enough.

We found no Common Sense Media review of this book. The publisher says the slow burn turns steamy, which does not say how explicit it is, so we give no number. How we rate: the FaeShelf spice scale.

Read it or skip it

Read it if

  • You want slow burn, forbidden romance and assassin lead, as the publisher's description puts it.
  • You have read Dearly Beloathed up to book 1.

Skip it if

  • You have not read The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy yet: start there.

Content notes

We found no content note list from the author, the publisher or Common Sense Media for this book.

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.

  • Slow burn“the slow burn turns steamy” (source)
  • Forbidden romance“the love is forbidden” (source)
  • Assassin lead“Osric is a member of the Fyren Order, a guild of assassins who gleefully murder for money.” (source)

Same series: Dearly Beloathed

Read The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy first.

How we checked this

This page draws on 2 source pages, each linked next to the fact it supports, last checked on Oct 12, 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.