The Clockwise Carousel (The Pickle Boat House Book 3)
- 4.8 out of 5
- 14 ratings
- 273 pages
Overall Content Rating: Parents Strongly Cautioned PG-13
The story follows Irish American brothers and railroad men caught up in theft, corporate politics, and amusement-park construction around the turn of the century. Dialogue-heavy scenes mix humor, sibling rivalry, and investigation as they try to clear their names and uncover who is sabotaging the line. Parents should expect regular moderate profanity in casual and angry speech, a few stronger outbursts, and occasional crude insults. Violence stays largely non-graphic overall, but there are punches, a wounded character bleeding at a desk, references to gunfire, and mention of a man killed by a horse. One line alludes to a character visiting prostitutes when he was very young; that behavior is referenced only in conversation, not shown.
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Crude Mild
6Characters call one another foolish or mock poor decisions in workplace and family talk. The sampled crude insults are occasional and tied to tension or humor, not constant bullying.
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Specific words
- stupid: 5
- idiot: 1
Profanity Moderate
73Strong and mild swearing runs through much of the dialogue, especially among brothers and railroad coworkers under stress. Insults, exclamations, and crude expressions appear in arguments, jokes, and workplace banter rather than on every page, but the overall count is steady across the story.
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Specific words
- damn: 28
- hell: 21
- ass: 9
- bitch: 7
- shit: 4
- bastard: 2
- dick: 1
- goddamn: 1
Sex Mild
1Sexual content is limited to brief spoken reference to prostitution and youthful experimentation in the past. There is no explicit sexual activity described in the sampled material.
Specific words
- whore: 1
Violence Moderate
4The plot includes fistfights, a shooting-related injury with visible blood, and talk of an accidental death involving a horse. Most physical action is restrained or off-scene, but at least one moment shows a character hurt and bleeding during a office struggle.
Amazon reviews mentioning violence
Specific words
- blood: 2
- kick: 1
- punch: 1
About this book
It’s 1901, and the fading bayside town of Nevis, Maryland is about to become home to a grand amusement park. As track foreman for the Chesapeake Railway Express, Irishman Patrick Byrne is doing his part, but what he really wants is a desk job with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. A promised bonus could make his dream a reality. He just needs to keep the rail line open so uppity Lawrence Carr and the Bayside Partnership can bring in freight, build their Bayland Park and beat the opening of the amusement park at Sandy Point. A seemingly straightforward task becomes complicated as unrelenting rain, maintenance of way issues, and an uneasy peace with the Germans in town threaten to keep Byrne permanently walking the rails. Read more