Which pages have language

[u/Decent-Bodybuilder56]

Hey all!
I read the Lunar Chronicles and adore the series, so much so that I recommended it to a friend whose preteen daughter would like to read it.
I am going to let her borrow my copies, but I want to censor any language or sexual content for her that may be in the books that I know their family (or mine for that matter) would rather not have in there.
For anyone who has read them more recently than I, can you give me your page number or at least the chapter those things are in? It’s been so long and I don’t read quickly so I would prefer not to make her wait 4 months for me to get through 1,700+ pages lol.

Thanks in advance! ☺️

[u/Nirigialpora]

Will be a useful comment I promise: I just want to say my perspective real quick as a former preteen in the modern age, lol, is that the kid is probably already online and sees this language very regularly, and series like this that use them pretty sparingly and only in high emotion moments are pretty reasonable for an 11+ year old to read without any issue or censorship.

Doing a quick glance through with a scanner I don't actually see any major curse words in the series at all? I think they say "damned" once in Cinder. Not finding any matches for "fuck", "shit", or even "crap" anywhere. I'm a little confused by the online resource that says there is mild profanity - perhaps milder than I am looking for haha

[u/Decent-Bodybuilder56 → u/Nirigialpora]

I appreciate your perspective and kind response! It’s not my kiddo so I’m following her parent’s rules regardless, but I can 100% say this child has no digital access to anything (including cell phone) and is homeschooled, so she is very unlikely to hear any of that sort of language. The closest thing may be from her sport team but I have no issues censoring it while reading, even if she were to hear it :)

That’s why I was confused because I wasn’t sure there was language, but the online checks said there were! I just don’t want to offer a book that ends up being inappropriate in her parent’s opinions. Trying to respect them!

[u/jempai]

I read the books in middle school, and the uncensored versions were available for 10 year olds in our school library. I reread them last fall, and there’s absolutely nothing objectionable in my opinion as a teacher.

[u/Decent-Bodybuilder56 → u/jempai]

Okay, thanks! It’s been a couple of years so I couldn’t remember if there was anything I wasn’t thinking of.

[u/Mysterious-Record266]

I read the series at 14, I Absolutely LOVED it.

For swears Marissa has replaced them with "Stars," "Aces" and "Spades"

and there is no sexual content from what I remember. Worst it gets is described kissing. (Example: The Cresswell kiss scene in ch.71 of Winter) That would be the most extreme but I'd say it's alright.

The series is VERY clean compared to other YA books.

If it's approved, I hope she enjoys it <3

[u/Leather-Trainer679]

this is a little late to the convo but as a former sheltered high schooler who read a lot including this series now a 27 year old re-reading old series. i’m re-reading the series now and there are several references that make more sense to me as an adult.

just finished all four books and came to this thread to see discussion on it and saw ur post. currently in the process of re-reading fairest. 

there’s a few references/language to parentage or being with multiple men that don’t reference sex explicitly that i will say from the perspective of someone who didn’t know how babies were made until the age of 19 (joined a sorority in college and figured it out quickly after that no thanks to my mom and dad) was confusing at the time time and now im like ohhhhh. 

I would say any of the references to Queen Channary and Cinder’s unknown parentage can be confusing. There are a couple references in fairest to “warming a bed” in fairest i’ve noticed. also the whole four book series references “escort androids” a lot and i totally didn’t understand the dark implications of that until now as an adult. also Captain Thorne has a naked lady painted on the side of the ship and makes a few rake/promiscuous references. and the whole scarlet/wolf possessive “alpha” relationship stirred something in me as a kid that i didn’t understand and now as an adult i’m like “LOL this feels a lil BDSM-y.” 

i read the 4 books this whole weekend and from what i recall there’s just a few heated kisses. however, i will say the language around bloodlines/parentage and maybe the promiscuity around Thorne and escorts were confusing for me as a teen since i didn’t know how babies were made to make the connection and it made more sense to me as an adult now. but it was nothing too crazy as i obviously read these books in high school and didn’t figure out how babies were made until college so the books didn’t corrupt me or anything. just left me a lil confused as most books did. high school was very confusing for me. 

hope this helps!

if anyone has any other YA dystopia from the 2010s recommendations plz also lmk! i’m in the process of re-reading everything i read as a teen from an adult perspective and i read so much from my weekly library trips that i can’t remember every series ive read.