Booked It Reviews

One family's book ratings. Spice, scariness, violence and magic, scored one to five.

Book ratings from one family, not an algorithm

40 books, 41 reviews, 5 readers. Every one of them scored for spice, scariness, violence, profanity and magic, because “is it good?” is rarely the question you actually have.

We are one family: two parents and three kids who read constantly. We kept arguing about what was fine for whom, so we started writing it down. These are our own numbers, on our own kids' books and our own late-night romances. Nobody pays us for a score, and nobody can.

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Clean romance, rated by the people who read it

3 books

Romance our family scored at spice 1 or under. Not “probably fine”. Actually read and actually scored, one to five, by a real reader we can name.

No spice at all

4 books

Every book here was scored spice 0 by every family member who read it. Closed door is not the same as no romance. Plenty of these are love stories.

Not scary

17 books

Scariness 1 or under. Useful if you have a reader who loves adventure and then cannot sleep.

Fantasy without the spice

5 books

Fantasy scored spice 1 or under. Magic level is on every card, because that is its own question in a lot of families.

No bad language

11 books

Scored profanity 0. This one is thinner than the others because profanity is the newest thing we started scoring.

Most recent

Rolls and Rivalry

Kristy Boyce · rated by Olive

Overall4
Spice1.5
Scariness0
Violence0
Profanity0
Magic0

Love and Other Goals

Tracy Baack · rated by Olive

Overall4.5
Spice2
Scariness0
Violence0
Profanity0
Magic0

Time Jumpers (Five Kingdoms #5)

Brandon Mull · rated by Owen

Overall3.5
Spice
Scariness1
Violence2
Profanity
Magic2.5

The Witches

Roald Dahl · rated by Olive

Overall4.5
Spice0
Scariness0.5
Violence3.5
Profanity0
Magic4

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Ransom Riggs · rated by Olive

Overall4.5
Spice0.5
Scariness2
Violence3.5
Profanity0
Magic4.5

Love from A to Z

S. K. Ali · rated by Olive

Overall4
Spice1
Scariness0
Violence2
Profanity0
Magic0

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