Overall Content Rating: Parents Strongly Cautioned PG-13
This post-apocalyptic novel follows young adults navigating a walled city, CDC politics, family secrets, and zombie-fighting culture. Tone is darker than a light adventure: bar work, drinking, religious extremism, and medical experiments on people appear in reviewer notes, along with ongoing peril and death related to the outbreak. Parents should expect moderate-to-frequent profanity including strong language, non-graphic sexual material tied to nightlife and sexual assault (past rape discussed and multiple attempted attacks), and steady action violence from zombies and human fights. Horror or scary elements come from undead attacks and tense captivity; torture or severe beating is referenced in backstory. This is aimed at mature teens or adults rather than younger readers.
Reviews first uploaded October 11, 2026 6:21 am. Page updated October 11, 2026 6:21 am.
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Fbombs Moderate
20A limited but clear set of the strongest swear words appears across the story, often in anger, fear, or confrontation rather than in every paragraph.
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Specific words
- fuck: 20
Profanity Moderate
255Coarse language runs through much of the book in a post-apocalyptic adult setting. Characters use mild and stronger swearing in stress, bar scenes, guard work, and arguments, including insults and vulgar intensifiers; frequency is high overall but usually brief in any given scene.
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Specific words
- shit: 96
- hell: 80
- ass: 30
- damn: 28
- bitch: 7
- bastard: 6
- bullshit: 6
- butt: 1
- dick: 1
Sex Moderate
8Sexual content is present but not described as fully explicit on the page. Bar and club scenes include revealing dress, ogling, and nudity references; dialogue references past rape and reviewers note repeated attempted sexual assault situations. There is some physical intimacy and leering language without graphic sex scenes.
Specific words
- tit: 3
- nude: 2
- boob: 1
- dick: 1
- rape: 1
Violence Moderate
67Violence fits a zombie-survival plot: infected attackers, ring fights, guns, knives, and injuries with blood and gore. Characters also strike and restrain one another during captivity and assault attempts; one review notes a school beating and human experimentation themes alongside standard outbreak danger.
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Specific words
- blood: 43
- kick: 11
- punch: 6
- smash: 5
- bleed: 1
- stab: 1
About this book
Twisted Memories is book two in the Twisted series, a continuation of the Amazon bestselling Broken World series, which follows a group of survivors as they work to find a new beginning in a world overtaken by the dead. Twenty years ago, a deadly virus swept the globe, ravaging the population and turning humans into monsters. Through that tragedy, survivors were born. Megan James is a product of those survivors. Now, two decades later, she’s facing a crisis of her own. Her father has vanished and is presumed dead, and her mom is teetering on the edge of insanity, and through it all, the only constant in her life is the zombies. Decayed and barely more than skeletons, there's no reason they should still be moving. But they are. When a mysterious note resurrects old rumors, Meg enlists the help of convict, Donaghy. Together they must search for the truth among the darkness that has settled over New Atlanta, where they’ll soon discover that the mutated virus has brought forth creatures nobody could have imagined, and the evil intentions of the men in charge are more sinister than anyone ever thought possible. Perfect for fans of The Walking Dead , you can grab all four books in the Twisted series now and join the fight for survival! Read more
