Parental Guidance

The Trinity of Mind series

This is a young-to-new-adult urban fantasy novel. Readers should expect it to have intense action and fighting scenes, with a balance of sexual tension/romance. The bad guys are bad, the good guys are good, but make a wrong choice a few times.

Here is one reader’s opinion:

“Thanks for keeping it pretty ‘darn’ clean.” — Paul

However, other reviews can be found that say this series isn’t clean.

Books don’t have ratings exactly. I would say this book is for later teens and new adults. I thought I would provide a parental guide, like you see for movies on IMDB.

They do not know how to tell the difference between an evil book and a good book that depicts evil. – Orson Scott Card

In my opinion, this is a good book that depicts evil.

Warning! These include spoilers.

Fire Light – Book 1

Details

Language

At no point in this novel or this series should you expect an F-word or someone taking the Lord’s name in vain.

This book is about real-world characters, and as people swear in the real world, some of the characters in this book swear.

  1. ass – 2 (in bad-ass, kick-ass)
  2. bastard – 1 time
  3. damn – 6 times
  4. hell – 11 times as a swear word
  5. jerk – 9 times
  6. shit – 3 times
  7. f-word – 0 times

Drugs and Alcohol

  1. Alexis drinks wine at a meal.

Sexuality

There are no explicit sex scenes. There are scenes describing nakedness, but they are not sexual in nature.

  1. The main character was born to a mother who was raped. The words ” rape or rapist ” are mentioned several times.
  2. The stepdad is mentioned as having been caught peeping on his daughter (no description of the act).
  3. Jake notices Kendra’s legs and later her chest.
  4. Kendra tells Jake over the phone that her towel dropped.
  5. Sis and Kendra are described as having practiced kissing on each other.
  6. Luiz suggests that he and Jake help the girls try on swimsuits.
  7. A pair of girls’ panties falls from a bag, and Luiz picks them up.
  8. Kendra allows Jake into a changing room as she tries on a shirt (she is wearing a bikini swimsuit under her clothes)
  9. Kendra wears a bikini swimsuit.
  10. Kendra and Jake kiss twice.
  11. Girls ogle Jake’s muscles.
  12. Jake burns the nightwalker’s black robe off and notices he is male, no description, but it is implied he is naked.
  13. Jake is naked, while an old servant tries to dress him.
  14. Alexis is described as wearing very immodest bustiers and tight leather pants, and Jake notices.
  15. Alexis tells Jacob she is not dressed. She is described as wearing a red cape with nothing underneath, yet she is covered.
  16. A twenty-something servant walks in on Jake while he is just wearing a towel after showering.
  17. Jake and Alexis kiss and embrace passionately.
  18. Jake remembers going to second base with a past girlfriend.
  19. Jake, Kendra, and Alexis are described as bald and naked during an extended fight scene.
  20. Jake and Kendra notice a tattoo well below Alexis’s navel while she is fighting nude.
  21. Jake and Kendra find out that Alexis was sexually abused by her grandfather and others to whom her grandfather had gifted her.
  22. Alexis is bald and unclothed as Jake and Kendra try to revive her.
  23. A family is described as naked and chained as the Vampire King forces Alexis to drink from them.
  24. Alexis comes out of her room nude before wrapping up in a sheet.

Violence

This book is intended to have strong action scenes.

Mr. Espinoza breaks Jake’s forearm.

Jake starts a fight to protect a kid from being bullied.

Jake is shot in the leg

O’Brien vanquishes a monster that looks like a man.

Caradoc is shot in the chest.

The nightwalker rips a woman’s arm off and is described as holding her arm, biting into her triceps, and covered in blood.

O’Brien shoots the nightwalker in the chest many times.

The nightwalker smacks O’Brien against a wall.

Jake erases the nightwalker’s body and soul with a magic missile.

Alexis crashes a semi into parked cars.

Jake uses a magic missile to erase the body and soul of two men who shoot at him and his sister.

Jake erases two vampires.

O’Brien shoots a vampire in the head, and his ear is described as missing due to the exit wound.

Alexis is described in a memory as drinking the blood of a woman and two of her children in Ecuador.

Alexis drinks Mr. Espinoza’s blood until he dies.

Alexis uses magic to hit a nightwalker with a ball of sunlight before O’Brien cuts off its head.

Luiz blows a vampire’s head off with a shotgun, then drops a grenade that explodes.

O’Brien shoots a female vampire in the neck, hitting the vertebrae.

A vampire is burned with sunlight.

More nightwalkers’ heads are cut off.

Jake and Kendra blast two druids with magic missiles, killing one.

Jacob uses magic that removes his hair and skin, leaving him bald and flayed.

O’Brien and Luiz both shoot the vampire king.

The vampire king fights and stabs Alexis in the heart.

Jacob and Kendra scoop spilled blood into Alexis’s mouth.

A family of a husband, wife, and daughter is described as naked and chained as the Vampire King forces Alexis to drain them till they are dead.

Mr. Espinoza drinks some of Kendra’s, Alexis’s, and Luiz’s blood.

Jacob walks around a bloody, skinless (inner layer of skin still there) mess.

Breaking Glass – Book 2

Details

Language

  1. ass – 0 times
  2. bastard – 2 times
  3. damn – 0 times
  4. hell – 14 times as a swear word
  5. jerk – 0 times
  6. shit – 0 times
  7. f-word – 0 times

Sexuality

Alexis changes clothes in the hallway where Jake, Kendra, and Luiz can see.

After Mr. Espinoza acquires seven thralls, all women, a scene where Jake and Kendra find out depicts the thralls all sleeping naked in Mr. Espinoza’s large underground bedchamber.

Waterbaby shape shifters change into people. They don’t shape shift with clothes, so they are naked. Two become Alexis and on Eldra. Luiz makes a Doublemint twins joke about the two naked shapeshifters who look like Alexis.

Drugs and Alcohol

One of Mr. Espinoza’s thralls is addicted to drugs and asks for more drugs.

Violence

Violent Scenes throughout

Alexis is shot and bleeding. She feeds on a Police Officer. Jake stops her from draining him by flicking his blood on her.

Torched Heart – Book 3

Details

Language

  1. ass – 0 times
  2. bastard – 1 time
  3. damn – 6 times
  4. hell – 9 times as a swear word
  5. jerk – 0 times
  6. shit – 0 times
  7. f-word – 0 times

Sexuality

Kendra is mentioned as being on her period more than once.

Alexis waits for Jake in the shower but is rejected. Nudity is implied.

Jake and Bear are in a scene that depicts an illegal brother with scantily clad or naked women.

Kendra is mentioned as being on her period more than once.

Ariel shapeshifts in the backseat of a small car to look twenty-one and mentions her nakedness as emaciated.

Vampires burn Alexis’s clothes off with a propane blow torch. She uses magic to keep herself from burning, leaving her naked.

During an MMA fight between a vampire male and Kendra, the vampire boasts he is going to strip Kendra, drink her blood, and defile her. (He doesn’t succeed.)

Jake helps a woman give birth. Mentions baby feeding on bare breasts.

Drugs and Alcohol

Violence

Violent scenes throughout.

Jody’s friend is executed, shot in the head, in front of the main characters.

Ariel is shot up with a machine gun and crawls, bloody, toward a man and asks Jake if she can eat him.

Vampires break Alexis’s arm.

A vision of Bear and his passengers getting ripped apart by Vampires is depicted. It is a vision of the future and is prevented, but the vision is described.

The MMA fight between Kendra and Henry is violent.

The MMA fight between Jie Shu and Ariel is violent.