Turning Point: A Post Apocalyptic EMP Survival Fiction Series (The Blackout Series Book 3)
- 4.4 out of 5
- 1,266 ratings
- 267 pages
Overall Content Rating: Parents Strongly Cautioned PG-13
This installment follows a middle-class family traveling after a catastrophic solar flare, leaning on faith, preparedness, and loyalty as they search for safety. Reader comments highlight Christian themes and relatively restrained language, with survival action rather than constant harsh swearing. Parents should expect moderate peril and violence on the road, including shootings, injuries, and killing in defense of the family. Sexual assault appears mainly in historical and side-story material, not as explicit sex scenes. Some readers report noticeable racial bias in the worldview or portrayals; assault and violence themes may be unsuitable for younger or sensitive readers despite the mild profanity.
Reviews first uploaded July 6, 2023 8:48 pm. Revised October 9, 2026 5:16 am. Page updated October 9, 2026 5:16 am.
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Crude Mild
2Occasional harsh name-calling appears in tense confrontations. Other sampled uses of everyday negative labels are self-criticism or general remarks, not steady crude banter.
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- idiot: 2
Profanity Mild
4Strong language is sparse. A few mild exclamations and common idioms appear in stressful travel and family moments, without frequent insult-driven swearing.
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- hell: 3
- butt: 1
Sex Moderate
4The story includes sexual assault in backstory and news-style recounting, including repeated assault against a woman, pregnancy following an assault, and a separate storyline about disputed assault charges involving a drunk man and a fifteen-year-old girl. The sampled passages describe cruelty and outcomes rather than explicit sexual acts on the page.
Specific words
- rape: 4
Violence Moderate
13After a solar disaster, the family faces road ambushes, gunfire, and hand-to-hand struggle. Characters are injured and bleeding, someone is killed in self-defense, attackers are kicked away from a vehicle, and looting and hunting scenes include blood and field dressing. Reviewers describe action with limited gore compared to harsher survival fiction.
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- blood: 5
- kick: 4
- bleed: 2
- punch: 1
- smash: 1
Racism Moderate
Sampled matches referring to animals are not racial slurs. Separate reader feedback describes politically charged writing and recurring racist attitudes or treatment in the story world.
About this book
Ya' lives by the sun, ya' dies by the sun. Life is always at a turning point . . . when faced with a certain death . . . would you be willing to seize the moment . . . and do what it takes to survive? Know this. You'll never know where the bend in the road might take you. The new dystopian, post apocalyptic EMP fiction series from author Bobby Akart (The Boston Brahmin series and the Prepping for Tomorrow series), has been hailed as a masterpiece of post apocalyptic EMP fiction. Prepare to learn, as well as be entertained as The Blackout Series continues with TURNING POINT. In book one of this new post-apocalyptic survival fiction series, 36 HOURS, the reader was provided a glimpse into the rapid decline of society once word of the catastrophic solar flare racing towards Earth began to spread. Book two, ZERO HOUR, thrust our character into the perils of a post apocalyptic world. At Zero Hour, an EMP caused by a massive solar flare left America in darkness. The Ryman family, who weren't preppers, applied common sense, logic, and a will to survive to their decision-making as they faced their death, their neighbors, and the depravity of man. Now, in Book three, TURNING POINT, the characters face a life altering decision - should we stay or should we go? The oldest and strongest emotion in man is fear, and the strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. Will American's flee the urban centers, the proverbial golden hordes, for the countryside? Will it be safer than the cities? TURNING POINT will lead the Ryman family into a complex, inexplicable world where danger lurks around every bend. This new post apocalyptic EMP fiction series will continue with the release of SHILOH RANCH, in November 2016. Note: This book does not contain strong language. It is intended to entertain and inform audiences of all ages, including teen and young adults. Although some scenes depict the realistic threat our nation faces from a devastating solar flare, and the societal collapse which will result in the aftermath, it does not contain graphic scenes typical of other books in the post apocalyptic genre. Read more