🖤 Dark-Element

🖤– Dark themes hardly present
🖤🖤– Slight moral gray areas
🖤🖤🖤 – Noticeably gloomy, problematic dynamics
🖤🖤🖤🖤– Very dark (violence, power imbalance, manipulation)
🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤– Extremely dark, disturbing, clearly in the dark romance zone

🌍 Worldbuilding

🌍– Hardly any worldbuilding, setting seems bland
🌍🌍– Basic idea, but lacking depth
🌍🌍🌍– A solid world with clear rules
🌍🌍🌍🌍– Detailed, atmospheric worldbuilding
🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍 – Epic world, complex, totally immersive

🌊 Reading Flow

🌊 –Tough and complicated, lots of infodumps
🌊🌊– Bumpy start, requires patience
🌊🌊🌊 – Easy to read, sometimes drags on
🌊🌊🌊🌊– Chapters fly by
🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊– Absolutely captivating, wanna read it all the time

💋 Romance

💋 – Romance is hardly present or purely incidental.
💋💋 – Light romantic elements in the background
💋💋💋 – Balance between Plot and Lovestory
💋💋💋💋– Romance is central to the plot
💋💋💋💋💋 – Intensive, emotional (often toxic) Lovestory

🌶️ Spice

🌶️ – Closed Door or Fade-to-Black, Focus on Plot/World
🌶️🌶️ – Few, short scenes, more sensual than explicit
🌶️🌶️🌶️ – Clearly noticeable attraction, several more explicit scenes
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ – Very spicy, detailed, clear dominance of eroticism
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️– Extremely explicit, kinky, typical of dark romance, not for everyone

📖 Story

📖 – Too much story fluff
📖📖 – Story present, but often interrupted by trivialities
📖📖📖 – Good Story vs. Fluff balancing
📖📖📖📖 – Appropriate level of explanation, pace is just right
📖📖📖📖📖 – Just the right amount of story, explanation, and plot development

🔥 Gesamtbewertung

🔥– No Match
🔥🔥– It is ok
🔥🔥🔥– Good, with flaws
🔥🔥🔥🔥– You should buy and read this :)
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥– Absolutely awesome book!