Pages will be added as we populate the site with more content! Until then, here’s a quick breakdown of the Update Pepper Scale and the Expanded Pepper Scale!
The Updated Pepper Scale (USP)
🫑 – The Bell Pepper
A romantic book that doesn’t follow the tropes and isn’t a romance.
🥵 – The Poblano Pepper
A spicy book that doesn’t follow the tropes and isn’t a romance.
🌶️ – One Pepper
A romance book that follows the tropes, but the spice is limited to kissing and hand-holding.
🌶️🌶️ – Two Peppers
A romance book that follows the tropes with reference to the spice, which happens behind closed doors.
🌶️🌶️🌶️ – Three Peppers
A romance book that follows the tropes with some description of spice and one scene of vanilla spice.
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ – Four Peppers
A romance book that follows the tropes with two or more primarily vanilla spice scenes on-page.
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ – Five Peppers
A romance book that follows the tropes with spice that you might not tell your mother about (hi, mom!).
The Expanded Pepper Scale (ESP)
Reviews in the ESP can be accessed by joining our Full Banana tier on Patreon!
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🔥 – Six Peppers
A romance book that follows the tropes and is at least five peppers. Six-pepper recommendations usually start with the question “how do you feel about voyeurism.”
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🔥🔥 – Seven Peppers
A romance book that follows the tropes with spice your normie friends would judge you for and might include a monster, but they’re… just a monster.
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🔥🔥🔥 – Eight Peppers
A romance book that follows the tropes and includes kinky spice and some BDSM.
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🔥🔥🔥🔥 – Nine Peppers
A romance book that follows the tropes and has spicier BDSM and may include a monster, but this time… it’s a monster monster.
🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌 – The Full Banana
Listen. You don’t need us to tell you when it’s the full banana, you know when it’s the full banana.