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The Irresistible Urge to Fall for 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. Publishers Weekly compares its tone to 1960s British sex farces, which does not say what is on the page, so we give no number. How we rate: the FaeShelf spice scale.

Read it or skip it

Read it if

  • You want slow burn, enemies to lovers and assassin lead, as the publisher's description puts it.
  • You want to start a series: this is book 1 of Dearly Beloathed.

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“Loyalties are tested in this slow burn, enemies-to-lovers romantasy” (source)
  • Enemies to lovers“Loyalties are tested in this slow burn, enemies-to-lovers romantasy” (source)
  • Assassin lead“Osric Mordaunt, an assassin from the Fyren Order, urgently needs healing.” (source)

Same series: Dearly Beloathed

The next book is The Exquisite Torment of Loving Your Enemy.

How we checked this

This page draws on 2 source pages, each linked next to the fact it supports, last checked on Oct 14, 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.