Darkness Watches: A Christian Supernatural Thiller
- 4.4 out of 5
- 137 ratings
- 303 pages
Overall Content Rating: Parents Strongly Cautioned PG-13
This is a suspenseful, faith-tinged thriller in which ordinary people collide with crime, gun violence, and manipulative antagonists. Parents should expect recurring injury and death imagery, tense confrontations, and a disturbing memory involving a child and blood, along with moderate name-calling among adults under stress. Language beyond insults is light. One hostile anti-gay slur appears. Christian preaching and scripture references are part of the setting; prostitution is mentioned only as background for a rough area. There are no sampled explicit sexual scenes; sexual content is limited to that passing street reference.
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Crude Moderate
17Insulting language such as calling people foolish or pathetic shows up regularly in internal thoughts and arguments, especially when characters are angry, scared, or contemptuous of others.
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Specific words
- idiot: 9
- stupid: 8
LGBTQ+ Mild
1Homophobic hostility appears in a single line where a character uses a slur and rejects gay people. This is hate speech, not affirming LGBTQ+ story content.
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- queer: 1
Profanity Mild
1Strong language is rare. One figurative use of a mild religious swear appears in tense dialogue; another mention of hell is part of church preaching, not casual swearing.
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- hell: 1
Sex Mild
1There is no on-page sexual activity in the samples. Prostitution is referenced once as part of a dangerous street the narrator drives through.
Specific words
- hooker: 1
Violence Moderate
24Physical harm and death recur throughout the story. Characters are shot, beaten, and left bleeding; crime scenes, pools of blood, and memories of a child covered in blood are described. Property is smashed during intimidation. Tension includes drawn weapons and struggles, without samples showing constant graphic torture.
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- blood: 19
- bleed: 3
- gore: 1
- smash: 1
About this book
Daniel Palmer is an orphan adjusting to his new life; a new home, new school, and a gift that has drawn the attention of a powerful entity. Ben Johnson’s family is falling apart, his company weeks from ruin, and a dangerous business partner might want him dead. One can peer through the veil of human perception and discern the force manipulating events in Pine Creek, the other is blinded by his past. As their lives collide, the conflict between Good and Evil intensifies, leaving a path of carnage that threatens to destroy them and those they love. Before it is finished, both will learn that some choices have eternal consequences, especially when Darkness Watches. Read more