The Collapsing Path (The Narrowing Path Series Book 3)
The Narrowing Path Series series
- 4.2 out of 5
- 55 ratings
- 280 pages
Overall Content Rating: Restricted R
This fantasy novel follows political and personal conflicts among guardians, marshals, and rebels during a dangerous seasonal period, with loyalty, class tension, and survival driving much of the plot. Dialogue includes occasional mild profanity and insults, plus a few non-graphic references to prostitution in arguments and threats. Parents should expect frequent, often intense violence: staged and real fights, torture-like beatings while a character is tied up, stabbings, and repeated descriptions of blood and serious injury. The sampled crude language is mostly name-calling about stupidity rather than stronger vulgar jokes; nothing in the provided notes flags other listed themes such as sexual assault on the page, self-harm, or racism.
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Crude Mild
14Characters sometimes call one another foolish or insult each other’s intelligence in heated or dismissive moments; sampled matches for crude bodily slang are not that kind of content.
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Specific words
- stupid: 9
- idiot: 5
Profanity Mild
7A small number of mild swear words and butt-related insults appear in tense or casual dialogue; overall frequency is low across the book.
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Specific words
- ass: 4
- damn: 3
Sex Mild
3A term for a sex worker appears a few times in talk of tavern fights, escorts, and threats; there is no detailed sexual activity in the sampled material.
Specific words
- whore: 3
Violence Heavy
64Physical conflict is common and often graphic: sword and knife wounds, beatings, kicks and punches while someone is helpless, blood on bodies and floors, and references to killing and corpses; injury and gore language recurs throughout.
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Specific words
- blood: 42
- kick: 10
- punch: 6
- stab: 6
About this book
To save his world, he must first destroy it. In just six short years, Bowe Bellanger, still not yet twenty years old, has gone from being a doomed deadbeat to becoming one of the most powerful men in the land. However, that means it’s Bowe’s responsibility to stand in judgment and decide who lives and who dies. Having watched friends die on the Path six years ago, can he now oversee the new one? If instead, he wants to see real change, Bowe will have to sacrifice everything he has built and more. This is the final book in The Narrowing Path trilogy. Bearing comparisons to Hunger Games and The Maze Runner, the series explores a rich medieval fantasy world with characters every bit as devious and bloodthirsty as the schemers in Game of Thrones. Buy today and explore a world where death is just one misstep away! Read more