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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2024
- all of my HOLY GRAIL book romance recommendations with NO SPICE/no smut in it - the non-spicy painfully slowburn or emotional ones are always my favourite
TIMESTAMPS:
1:03 holy grails
2:52 cutesy "so high school"
3:58 for my asian girlies
4:25 fade to black adult romance
6:27 love triangles
7:08 MY kind of romantasy
8:30 fantasies w/ romance
10:30 SLOOOOW & subtle (or just delulu)
12:13 misc
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Thank you!!! I'm muslim and it's really hard to find romance books without spice 💞💞
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Same. I have books with smut and I just skip it. It adds no plot in the storyline.
I’m assuming you’re looking for adult recs? I have a few that don’t
@@parnikajain3151list all lf them, gorgeous
As a christian girlie who loves romance thats exactly what i needed, thanks Sunny 💛
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Sameeee
YASSSS KWEEENNNN!!!! SAAAAAMMMEE!!!!💖💖💖
Me too ❤❤✝️
YESS
As a young 13 year old Christian girlie who’s obsessed with romance books but HATES smut I think I speak for all of us in saying THANK YOU SO MUCH
literally me but im 2 years older 🤩🤩
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**gasp** Same girly!! SAME!!
Frrr and my parents wil NOT let me read spice
As a Christian this is a God send!!! I’m a huge romance reader and don’t want to read explicit scenes. Thank you so much for this video!!
Same!!!
No but when I tell you I’ve realized I also much prefer more emotional, swoony romances with no spice and thus was in such a need for a rec video like this 😭❤
Sameeee she made this video at the perfect time
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But I looked up some of these books and they have gay characters so as muslim we shouldn’t read them
yesss! my christian self doesn’t have to skip over them explicit scenes 😩🤩❤️🎉!!
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So it's not just me!
Girl! God said fleee from sexual immorality 😂😂😭😭the scrolling that takes place is unreal😂
@@uyandadlamini6263 !!!
As a Christian I love to see those kind of recommendations 🥹💕
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Someone has finally heard our cries😭😭as a Christian girlie who reads romance, especially romantic fantasy I have been struggling 😭thank you so much!
Girl I recommend The Timekeeper's Secret! Best fantasy series ever with strong characters and amazing buidling romance with no spice!
The Timekeepers Secret is amazing! Can never stop recommending it!
@@sonia-jw2ds exactly!! Currently rereading it!❤️
Thank you! I'm asexual and it makes me incredibly frustrated and angry that it seems like ANY romance is reduced to sex only
Homegirl really did just drop the BEST the toppest of the tier book rec video ever.❤❤🎉
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girl i finally read better than the movies this past week and it had me giggling at like 3 am! it was sooo sweet 😭 i love the books with slow-burn moments of literally nothing happening because all the small scenes become such gems + my christian self always ends up speed-skimming explicit scenes lol. I love all the fluffy romances so ty!! ♥
TIMESTAMPS:
1:03 holy grails
2:52 cutesy "so high school"
3:58 for my asian girlies
4:25 fade to black adult romance
6:27 love triangles
7:08 MY kind of romantasy
8:30 fantasies w/ romance
10:30 SLOOOOW & subtle (or just delulu)
12:13 misc
more book reccomendation videos please!! (Not that my tbr is anywhere close to getting finished but still AHAHHA)
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help i was literally getting tired of all the smutty books- tysmmmm!! 💛💛💛
I really appreciate that you put the book covers on screen it makes it so much easier to remember what books I wanna read on the future!
Thank you! I always feel bad when I read books with smut. Like I’m intruding on something or reading corn. I like true romance stories on a deeper level than physical💖
Love this!! I really wish there were more really good no spice adult books, though because as I get older ya feels more disconnected but I still rather no spice to dodge
Ikr
Same! It is very frustraiting that all the clean romance books are YA, because I don't enjoy reading about guys in highschool as much as I did before.
Adult clean romance authors--Kourtney Keisel, Annah Conwell, Emma St. Clair, Jenny Proctor, Savannah Scott, Courtney Walsh, Bethany Turner...and more. Cute romance, witty dialogue, fun tropes and stories, etc.
@@littlehousema7162 oh wow thanks!
Adding all the Brigid Kemmerer books to my more immediate "Read now!!!" TBR after having added them like months ago when I first saw you recommend them.
4:32 OH MY GOODNESS! As a girl who doesn't like spice and has a hard time finding good books because of that, I was hoping to add more books to my list but was not expecting to see Choi Yeonjun here. I am a huge fan of TXT and Yeojun is my bias, girl you're gonna convince me to look more into this book.
I would love to see you do a video about your favorite books and who you would fan-cast or just who you imagined while reading them.
i love this!! i will always need more no spice/closed door romances! difficult to find, but it’s worth the search to avoid smut. thank you so much for this video!
As a Christian girlie, i am soooo glad i found you! Ive got soooo many new book recs now, youve earned a sub! I also feel spicy book take away from the plot and the characters personalities and stuff, i just prefer no spicr anyway, like whats the point? You forget away it like 2 days after anyway. Thanks again Sunny!!❤
I knew i was deep in sunny kim recs when i’ve read most of these 😭
BAHAHSHAHA THIS MADE LAUGH OUT LOUD
@@sunnykimreadsLOVE UU 💖
For people who love the vibes of bridgerton but want no spice- Blackmoore and Edenbrooke by Julianne Donaldson!!! I'm obsessed with them, esp Also Jo & Laurie, which is basically like the ultimate fix it fanfic for Little Women (aka where we stop denying that Jo & Laurie belonggg together). It also has my fav book quotes of all time - "Love yourself like I love you, old friend" and "who knew a heart could break open so expansively"
One of my favorite books without spice is The Girl Who Fell Beneath The Sea! It’s so good and the romance is so sweet
Read it like a week ago and I fell in love with it🌊
@@kurecirizek737 aw yay 😊
Thank you so much! I’m like you, spice just isn’t my thing but it is EVERYWHERE on book social media 😭
The way I just saw the notification for this video and I dropped what I was dooing to watch it
I love you Sunny!!
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I love this type of rec! For people that want to avoid spice all together, today tonight tomorrow, one for my enemy, and divine rivals all have spicy scenes (but all three are not a substantial part of their books)
the scream i scrumpt when you started off with letters to the lost. it’s one of my absolute favourite books ever! i’m also someone who enjoys feeling emotional pain when reading lol. love the recs!
leigh bardugo makes books specifically for the delulu girls I feel because alex and darlington from ninth house makes me feel the same way even tho they literally have NO romantic interactions like none at all NOTHING HAPPENS yet they have been my roman empire for 2 years now I cry real tears for them
Ugh FINE! I'm opening Goodreads and adding more books to my TBR! Also, I really love your rapid fire recommendation videos like this!
So many good recs! I’ve read a few of these and Lovely War is so good! Saving this video for future reference!
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ahh thank you sm for this list! I saw this in my recommended and immediately clicked I’MMSO HAPPY TO FINALLY GET SOME NEW NO SPICEBOOK RECS
Ahh I was so excited to find quite a few of these books on Kindle Unlimited! Thanks for the recommendations Sunny
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sunny girl you are literally saving me during exam season with your videos I LOVE YOUUUU
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thank you!!!! feels like every book is explicit these days and when you don't vibe with that sort of stuff it's hard to find anything to read. very grateful for this vid!!!!
Thanks for this. ❤ I feel like spice is just so unnecessary and sometimes even ruins the tension between the characters.
Girl, you are running through this list getting right to it. I love that!!!
For delulu girl "now kiss" I think The Year Of The Reaper by Makiiia Lucier is great. It is obvious that there is interest there, but nothing happens between the characters until the very very end, and the romantic feelings are swept aside throughout so I felt there was great buildup.
ILL READ IT
Yes! I loved that book and no one talks about it!
Hyyy, I'm from Brazil and discovered your channel literally now :) A few months ago I discovered the world of american romances, and got OBSSESED with Annah Conwell, she's a christian author and her books have no spice! I always recommend her for every girl who doesn't like spice scenes
No, like, I needed this! I been DNF all the booktok recommended stuff. I love story and when the story is all smut I just skip every page.
Sameee
OMG OMG YOU ARE GOING TO DEVOUR ANN LIANG'S BOOKS:
"This time it's real" & "I hope this doesn't find you" because omg I died especially I hope this doesn't find you because godddd the enemies to lovers in that one is STRONGGGGG!!
as someone who gets uncomfortable over explicit scenes (I know I can just.. skip it.), this video was sent from the heavens
Thank you for sharing your recommendations! It is so hard to find books without spice these days, even in YA, which has always been my go-to “spice-free” reading. I will definitely be adding your recommendations to my TBR.
i feel like sarah dessen's books would also fit the slowburn and no spice category (especially just listen and the truth about forever), they're very emotional and just focus on the development of the relationship before anything even happens (which happens mostly near the very end)
If u haven’t already read Powerless, you gotta! It’s kinda a slowburn? You can say they are denial, but they still flirt with each other. Both of them also have a backstory that brings them closer.. or farther apart 🫢🫢 Either way, so good! 10 /10 recommend
STOPP JACKS AND CORRICK DO IT FOR ME BRO I CANNOTT 😭😭😭
thank you so much for making this video it helped me add so many books to my tbr 😭❤️ but 2 other no spice books that i would recommend are Love & Gelato and Tweet Cute, they are seriously some of my favorite books of all time!!
ahh this came at the perfect time because I literally just finished reading if you could see the sun!! if you liked the book, i would highly recommend ann liang's other two books!! they are my current hyperfixation and i NEED more people to know about them🥺
It's so good!
I'm wondering about reading those books now but I'm very picky about my reads. No spice for me and personally I don't want to read books with very strong language either. How bad is the language and stuff in her books? Lol
I’m blessed that I found this video and your channel! Tysm🤎
Love love the clean romance book list Sunny!! I've been looking for clean romance books😊❤
thank you soo much for this! so many people only care about spice now…. 😕and its sad. but this video was great!!
For the delulu girl says now kiss genre you might enjoy North and South girl!! if you want to get into classics with a book where almost nothing happens until the very end but uuuuugh the angst the tensionnnn I loved itt. Towards the end of the book I almost second guessed myself, I was like wait did I imagine everything, is this even a romance (sub)plot?
Is it a classic???
@@sunnykimreads Yes!
Thank you girl, I've added plenty of books on my tbr 📚!
Thank you !! I really want to get into romance, but i feel like i'm still too young for spice and so i avoid it. This is THE video i needed. ❤
You're so welcome!
“The slowest slow slow burns literally nothing happens.” YOU ARE SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE THOSE BOOKS R THE BESTTT 😭
Girrrl im saving this and opening my TBR list next time, I'm rewatching this video again def
Yes thank you for this, every 2024 new release I’ve read has had spice and it’s overwhelming when every book I pick up is like surprise spicy scene! I prefer no spice as well
And I immediately subscribed!! Your recs are SO good, I've probably read about half of these already (which gives me so many exciting ones to look forward too).
I don't hate spice inherently, I just need to feel really connected to the characters and their relationship first (slow burns are sooo much juicier!!), and I've found that most books I read that feature it tend to overdo it, and forget that the genre was supposed to be romance, it just becomes a full on smut novel. At that point I just get super bored, and mentally check out lol.
As for recs, I'd say pretty much everything by Kasie West (Sunkissed, and Places We've Never Been are faves), Margaret Rogerson's first two books (An Enchantment of Ravens, and Sorcery of Thorns), and Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (I've only read book one so far tho and can't speak about sequels)
this was the perfect video for me as someone who doesn’t read spice💖 also, I’m in a terrible slump and I want to start the infernal devices trilogy but I was wondering if you would recommend it to get out of a reading slump? I’m a romance girly too so it has to have romance for me to enjoy it
I LOVE LOVE LOVEEEE THAT YOU ADDED THE INFERNAL DEVICES I JUST FINISHED REREADING THEMAND UGHHHH WILL TESSA AND JEM ❤❤❤❤ so underrated 10/10 reccomend (bothget the girl love triangle )
Thank you so much for this!! It’s so hard to find no spice books as a Christian
BIG +1 FOR THE INFERNAL DEVICES, LITERALLY A MASTERCLASS OF A SERIES IN HOW TO WRITE LOVE TRIANGLES
Letters to the lost literally dragged me out of my reading slump
recent non-spice list of books I liked !
- Kit McBride Gets A Wife by Amy Barry (dual POV Historical Romance, matchmaking)
and these two I LOOOOVED (take my memory so I can read them again
Yass no smut or spice plz! Thank you thank you!!! ❤❤❤
Brooo you have to read the city of brass series. The first book very much just okay, but the second and third book, chefs kiss.
thumbnail n editing (n content, obviously) always goes so hard
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Love these recs! I loved some of these books and added some to my tbr :)
Oh my gosh I never hear people talk about these Brigid Kemmerer books but they're SO good!!! I love them. Thanks for all the recommendations! I don't mind spice sometimes but it would be nice to change it up with some no spice too!
@1:17 omg. after browsing my shelf, i was just thinking to myself why these books are not that popular because i loved both (letters to the lost & more than we can tell) after reading them years ago. and i'm also planning on rereading them because it's been a while and i don't remember much but i remember really, really enjoying them. so glad i found this video 🤍
I read If You Could See the Sun recently and received my own copy today (the one I read was from the library, in case it did have smut) -- and Hello Stranger is amazing! Glad to see there other *no smut* readers out there 💕
thanks so much for this video! kinda mad at myself because some of these books were already on my physical and digital TBH list, but now it gave me the courage to read them ASAP : )
I love On The Fence! I have read almost all of that authors books and they are all really good
YES IF YOU COULD SEE THE SUNN LOVE THAT BOOK
once you mentioned the prison healer i put my full trust into you
Keep doing this recommedation videos! Im a Christian and really aprecciate videos like this! Specially since I feel like in general smut ruins what I really like about romance. Even if I wasnt christian I still wouldnt like smut, mainly because I like more the tension and build up! Plus the idea of them loving each other because of who they are and not for pleasure or their body yk.
Finally someone talks about these books! Brigid K. is so good, i recommend Dear Emmie Blue in new adult books. No spice but so good, Lia is amazing. And Kasie West books are perfect for no spice fans.
Thanks for the recommendations! One thing I'd note is that the Shatter Me series and Once Upon a Broken Heart are not 0 spice. I suppose s3x doesn’t happen on page, but if makeout sences ect. aren't your thing, (they aren't for me, haha) then I'd maybe look elsewhere.
Yes this is a struggle for me. I really prefer no spice at all and no strong language and books like that are so hard to find these days 😩
I needed this! 🤎
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The fact that I knew it was Six of crows before you said it😂 but seriously NOTHING HAPPENS!! But it was one of the best romances ❤
just to add to the sentiment of other comments - thank you so much for making a video like this! I love romance but I feel like spice is such a big thing right now and it's hard to find good books without spice when that's not what I'm looking for like sometimes I just want something sweet!! lol amazing recs
Thank you for the help!!😊
I can also recommend Susan Dennard‘s other series the Luminaries, love story there is also really slow burn, Magic is interesting and the books are not to long. ❤
ive never heard of anyone talk about this series it’s actually so good i love it 😭😭🙏
Thank you for the recs bestie Sunny (:
Thank you for this video, I really needed it 💗
i wrote all of them down omg i will read them all🌺✨ thank u for the recs i don't like spice in books (it's super scary to read it public🥰)
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AHH THIS IS THE BEST GIFT EVERRRR
I recommend "Beneath the Wide Silk Sky" It's such a well written book with romance and dreams etc. +0 spice
YOURE SO REAL SUNNY ILY
Thank you for posting this🙏
I’ve read some and quite a few are on my TBR…. So helpful. If I want to read spice, I’ll read icebreaker lol. If I don’t, I now have a huge list. Thanks again.
You have amazing book taste!!
omg i wanna read tokyo ever after now because i lovee Yeonjun LOLL
my favorite adult romances that have absolutely no spice and only a bit of kissing (but lots of fluff and love) are Cleopatra Margot’s books!
Which one do you recommend to start with?
@@_itsanika_ you can honestly read them out of order, but you might miss a bit, so i would recommend reading ‘sun to me’ first!
Ok I have to join in on the fun with the fancasting K-pop boys as mmcs: when I read OUABH I pictured Jacks as Hyunjin from Stray Kids and I will LITERALLY never be able to see the character another way no matter how much fanart I see to the contrary, like hyunjin is SO Jacks-coded
Oh my goodness i literally adore the Tokyo ever after series! Yeonjun🤭🤭
Yay! A vid with its own unique title LMFAO 😂 I click 🔥 Always love your recommendation vids and was delighted to see one about no spice 😍
This is great! Thank you so much. I need more of these recs
I recommend The Timeless Fate Series and The Water Walls!!!
OMG i lovee Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry such a cute book
Yess I’m barely half way through the book and I alr want it to be adapted into a movie/show
yesss it's really good it deserves so much more recognition tbh
@@lavender-yi6wr frrrr its literally my comfort book at this point