Being Travis (No Time for Travis Book 2)
- 4.6 out of 5
- 45 ratings
- 198 pages
Overall Content Rating: Parents Strongly Cautioned PG-13
This installment follows Travis and people close to him in a Southwestern ranch-and-community setting where land use, family ties, and local history matter. Expect everyday adult talk about pregnancy, friendship, and tension with neighbors over logging and water, plus a thread involving old photographs and legendary outlaws. For content-aware parents: language is the main concern—periodic cursing and insults when tempers flare. There is some non-graphic physical harm (a beating, cuts, bleeding, and gun use) and coarse name-calling. Sampled text does not treat matched sexual, LGBTQ+, or racist wording as that kind of content; romance and faith references stay in ordinary story context without focusing on the listed sensitive themes.
Reviews first uploaded September 30, 2026 1:29 am. Revised October 8, 2026 2:39 pm. Page updated October 8, 2026 2:39 pm.
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Crude Mild
8Adults use harsh labels for each other’s judgment and mistakes, especially when blaming someone for clear-cutting and flood risk.
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Specific words
- stupid: 5
- idiot: 3
Profanity Moderate
18Strong and mild swearing appears in adult dialogue, often when men are angry about property damage, danger, or bad luck. It is not constant on every page but shows up in bursts around conflict and stress.
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Specific words
- bitch: 4
- hell: 4
- shit: 4
- damn: 2
- goddamn: 2
- ass: 1
- bastard: 1
Violence Mild
6Characters discuss outlaw violence and murder in a historical context, handle guns for teaching and defense, and tend bleeding injuries after a pistol-whipping and a creek accident. Injury is described but samples are not prolonged graphic torture.
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- blood: 4
- bleed: 2
About this book
Two years ago, a weird trick of time sent Travis Merrill spiraling from 2016 to the year 1877. Committed now to his life in frontier Arizona, Travis is married with a child on the way and is homesteading a ranch. His knowledge of the future, however, keeps him at odds with his neighbors, his friends… and his wife. He finds it more and more difficult to protect his home without alienating his family, yet he can’t ignore what he knows is – and will be – true. Read more