![]() That said, my son asked me to look at the book for him because he was not comfortable reading it. Who likes to read that? I am not concerned with the sword fights and there are beatings that are part of the danger of the book, but the murder scene was very heavy and without knowing where the book leads from there, it can be enough to not want to keep reading the book. I personally would not give this to my 10 year old to read on his own. Orphans are rounded up and one is shot to show the others what happens if they don't obey. There is a difference between action and danger for a teenage boy and the cold hearted cruelty of the murder of a child (a sick orphan, at that). ![]() That stopped my son from wanting to read it and I took the book to see what it was about. ![]() ![]() As already mentioned, there is a murder in the beginning of the book. ![]()
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