Insects: Books 1, 2, & 3
- 4.2 out of 5
- 625 ratings
- 870 pages
Overall Content Rating: Restricted R
This is an adult-oriented jungle horror-thriller about scientists and media caught up with deadly swarming insects, kidnapping, and corporate pressure. Expect sustained scary tension and graphic death scenes rather than light adventure peril. Language is a major parental flag: team members and bosses use heavy profanity and very frequent strong swears when stressed. There is no sexual storyline in the sampled material; anatomical terms show up only in violent death imagery. A river name that resembles an outdated racial term appears solely as Brazilian geography, not as bias against people. Romance, faith debates, and social-issue themes are not highlighted in the supplied notes.
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Crude Moderate
28Characters often call ideas, mistakes, or each other foolish or contemptible in heated talk, alongside informal slang complaining that situations are awful.
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- stupid: 15
- idiot: 7
- suck: 6
Fbombs Heavy
63Strong four-letter words appear throughout the story at high frequency, especially when characters face insects, deaths, media scrutiny, or betrayal.
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- fuck: 63
Profanity Heavy
106Adults swear often in jungle survival scenes, kidnapping, and office clashes. Language ranges from mild exclamations to insults and crude dismissals, woven through much of the dialogue.
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- hell: 33
- shit: 27
- goddamn: 17
- damn: 16
- bastard: 5
- bullshit: 5
- ass: 2
- bitch: 1
Violence Heavy
39Horror-style physical harm dominates key set pieces: swarming insects kill and mutilate people with detailed blood and suffering, plus threats of fistfights, a stabbing in backstory, and panicked escape injuries. Customer notes describe a scary, creepy read with gore suited to readers who want that intensity.
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- blood: 26
- punch: 4
- smash: 3
- stab: 3
- bleed: 2
- kick: 1
About this book
A livewire set of thrillers for fans of Crichton, King and Cussler. A scientific expedition journeys deep into the remote Brazilian jungle in search of a career-making discovery: a carnivorous insect so rare that no team has ever confirmed its existence. But the rainforest's many unknown and mysterious dangers will make simply escaping the jungle alive far more difficult than anyone anticipated... Insects: Books 1, 2 & 3 includes three full-length novels (1000+ pages) : Insects (Book 1) : a team of scientists journey into the uncharted Amazon rainforest in search of a deadly, career-making discovery: the rare carnivorous insect reptilus blaberus . But when rising floodwaters cut the expedition off from civilization, the hunters soon become the hunted in the terror-filled night. Insects: The Hunted (Book 2) : the team returns to a different part of the remote jungle again in pursuit of reptilus blaberus , this time accompanied by a reality TV production crew to fund, document and protect the expedition. Insects: Specimen (Book 3) : the team attempts to continue its studies of reptilus blaberus under different conditions, but the carnivorous insect's lethal instincts aren't dulled by a change of scenery. Read more