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The Wolf and the Crown of Blood Spice Level and Content Notes

By Elizabeth May. Last checked .

Spice level

5/5

Very explicit

“the emphasis on over-the-top kinky sex frequently supersedes both story and theme”

Source: Publishers Weekly, checked Oct 14, 2026. We place that description on the FaeShelf 0 to 5 spice scale.

Read it or skip it

Read it if

  • You want frequent, very explicit scenes central to the story (FaeShelf spice 5/5, from Publishers Weekly's note).
  • You want gods, enemies to lovers and forced proximity, as the publisher's description puts it.
  • You want to start a series: this is book 1 of The Broken Accords.

Skip it if

  • You want romance without explicit sex (FaeShelf spice 5/5, from Publishers Weekly's note).

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.

  • Gods“A princess and a war-weary god met in the ashes of a broken city, forging a pact in blood and sacrifice.” (source)
  • Enemies to lovers“tropes like enemies to lovers, forced proximity, death pacts, and villain-gets-the-girl” (source)
  • Forced proximity“tropes like enemies to lovers, forced proximity, death pacts, and villain-gets-the-girl” (source)
  • Forbidden romance“When forbidden desire burns between the assassin and the sacrificial princess” (source)
  • Assassin lead“But when rebellion stirs, the god-king sends his deadliest weapon to restore order: an immortal assassin known only as the Wolf.” (source)

How we checked this

This page draws on 3 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.