Overall Content Rating: Restricted R
This fantasy adventure follows a young hero in a dangerous ancient world with giants, beasts, raids, and warlike clans. Faith in Elohim (God) is a positive thread: divine guidance is sought and God is portrayed as the ultimate good in reviewers’ experience. That does not soften the action tone. Parents concerned about age appropriateness should expect frequent, vivid violence rather than romance or sexual content. Sampled language is mild and rare; there is no sexual material in the samples provided. Torture is flagged in series reviews as increasingly detailed. The book is a poor fit for young children or sensitive readers who struggle with battle gore, cruelty between characters, and sustained peril.
Reviews first uploaded July 6, 2023 8:12 pm. Revised October 6, 2026 7:13 pm. Page updated October 6, 2026 7:13 pm.
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Profanity Mild
1Strong language is sparse in the sampled text. One mild curse appears in tense dialogue about a chase; another use of the same root word refers to damned spirits rather than swearing at someone. A common term for a donkey appears only in plain talk about animal breeding, not as an insult.
Amazon reviews mentioning profanity
Specific words
- damn: 1
Violence Heavy
51Physical conflict and injury run through much of the story. Characters bleed from rope burns, thorns, cracked lips, and sword fights; blood is described on hands, mail, animals, and sand. Fights include stabbing through armor, axe blows through shield and ribs, kicking a person who is treated as a slave, and smashing heads and chariots. Gore and carcass detail appear after kills, including brain matter and flies. Reviewers describe the book as full of blood and violence throughout and note that torture descriptions grow harsher across the series, which may matter if a child is reading multiple volumes.
Amazon reviews mentioning violence
Specific words
- blood: 27
- smash: 10
- bleed: 6
- kick: 4
- gore: 2
- stab: 2
About this book
Young Joash was a slave until the champion Herrek freed him from bondage. Now he trains as a chariot runner, dreaming of glory in Elon’s host. But ancient evil stirs. The Nephilim—sons of fallen angels—have found primeval weapons capable of slaying Heavenly beings. They plan to storm Eden, eat from the Tree of Life and rule as gods. First, they need expendable humans to trip the deadly traps that guard Paradise. When Herrek’s band falls under a Nephilim spell, Joash must find the courage he never knew he had. Like the mouse that freed the netted lion, this former slave will have to save his newfound family from a hideous fate—or watch them become pawns in a war between Heaven and Earth. GIANTS launches the Lost Civilizations Series, chronicling the war between Nephilim and men in the days before the oceans overran the Pre-Cataclysmic World. Read more