Shadows of Empyriad (The Empyriad Series Book 1)
- 4.5 out of 5
- 95 ratings
- 384 pages
Overall Content Rating: Parents Strongly Cautioned PG-13
This is an action-heavy science-fiction or adventure plot with soldiers, Rangers, family conflict, and a child caught in dangerous events. Parents should expect moderate violence: gunfire, physical fights, wounded characters, and talk of people shot without provocation. Language in the samples is mostly plain dialogue; strong swearing does not show up in the flagged material, and crude content is limited to mild insults.
Reviews first uploaded October 11, 2026 5:38 am. Page updated October 11, 2026 5:38 am.
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Crude Mild
7Characters use demeaning name-calling in heated moments, including in a jail setting and during leadership disputes. It appears occasionally rather than throughout every scene.
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- stupid: 4
- idiot: 3
Violence Moderate
23The story includes recurring combat and aftermath: shootings, people struck with weapons, fistfights, and frequent descriptions of bleeding head wounds and blood on snow or hands. Characters discuss killings framed to look like someone else did them. Injury is described clearly but sampled material is not sustained graphic torture.
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- blood: 16
- punch: 3
- bleed: 2
- kick: 2
About this book
Aliens are coming to Yellowstone Global Park. In order to protect its delicate ecosystem, the park has been closed to the public for a quarter of a century. But the fortifications that keep the public away from the bison and the geysers are perfect for keeping the arriving aliens–the Stracahn–away from humanity. Solomon Brooks lives on the edge of the park, but he has never been inside. Outside the park, bitter land wars threaten to tear human society apart, and Sol seeks refuge from the conflict by volunteering to work with the aliens inside Yellowstone. There, he meets Zyn’dri, a Stracahn girl with gifts even her own species doesn’t fully understand, and Walt, a ranger whose knowledge of the park is second only to his knowledge of human nature. As the three forge an unlikely friendship, they uncover a sinister plot and an impending disaster. The Stracahn have come from their dying planet, Empyriad, in search of a peaceful new home. But with warring humans outside the gates of Yellowstone and the world’s largest supervolcano inside, Earth is anything but peaceful. Read more