Where Love Shines (Where There is Love Book 5)
- 4.3 out of 5
- 16 ratings
- 278 pages
Overall Content Rating: Parents Strongly Cautioned PG-13
This historical novel follows characters tied to war service, blindness, and efforts to help the poor and sick in nineteenth-century England. Parents should expect recurring wartime and medical imagery, including blood and wounded soldiers, in line with the period setting. Language concerns are light: the nickname for the lead male character accounts for many automatic matches and is not crude, and only a few lines use mild figurative wording about hell. Sampled passages do not show sexual contact, crude insults, or strong profanity; reform work mentions closed brothels as background to the mission, without explicit scenes in the samples provided.
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Profanity Mild
2Strong language is uncommon. A character once compares a past ordeal to a hellish experience in quiet conversation; other matches echo a famous war poem or ask whether evil should be understood as a warning about the afterlife, not as swearing in arguments.
Amazon reviews mentioning profanity
Specific words
- hell: 2
Violence Moderate
15The story is set around the Crimean War and Victorian social reform. Readers see sword wounds, bleeding injuries, crowded hospital work, and references to men hurt on battlefields and in harsh labor. Injury and blood appear in several scenes but the sampled matches are not constant graphic torture.
Amazon reviews mentioning violence
Specific words
- blood: 14
- bleed: 1
About this book
“Half a league, half a league/ Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death/ Rode the six hundred.” Lieutenant Richard Greyston seeks heroic glory in the Charge of the Light Brigade. Jennifer Neville goes to Scutari as one of Florence Nightingale’s nurses dreaming of wiping the brows of the wounded. Richard winds up blinded and Jennifer spends her days carrying slops as mice fall from the walls of the hospital. Back in London Jennifer throws herself into charity work under the leadership of the Earl of Shaftesbury. She is delighted to reconnect with the convalescing Richard until she learns that his family’s wealth is built on the potteries where children are subjected to unimaginable brutality. Richard eventually joins Shaftesbury’s fight for social justice but must find a way out of the darkness to deal with his feelings for Jennifer. Read more