As you would expect from a seasoned Christian author, there is little to worry about here. The majority of what we want to share in this section is focused on the intensity that almost inevitably comes with this historical fiction genre (how do you express a realistic view of genuine evil?). We will give a good sampling of related lines here so you can decide for your reader:

• In frustration Judah (one of the main characters) asks, “Will the wolves always seek Jewish blood?”
• In a violent fight we read, “Judah saw his chance and lunged, slicing open the man’s neck”
• “More lifeless bodies littered the ground” (war scene)
• “Jews sought refuge within the synagogue but met their deaths instead”
• A priest makes the accusation that “The Jews of Prague used the blood of Christian children in their rituals”
• To show of the cruelty of the Nazis, we hear of biological gas weapons being used on women and children
• Upon learning he would go to a horrible concentration camp, a character shares, “My brother took his own life last night”
• A story from a previous war mentions that the royal family was “brutally executed” (no detail given)
• Judah kills a German soldier and shares that he “didn’t regret it”. He justifies that full carriages of his people were being carried away.
• An angry man remarks of the Germans, “If a few of those backstabbers get crushed in the process, good riddance"
• Near the culmination of the book, the amount and frequency of the content like we describe above does pick up a decent bit (again, understandably given the genre and setting).

A few other things we noted:

• Katerina, the other main character, is a reporter. She is trying to get information to shed light on what the Nazis are really up to. To do this she spends time with a high ranking Nazi official. A bit unexpectedly to us, she finds herself fighting off feelings of attraction to this evil man (she knows it is wrong).
• Judah wrestles with challenging questions around whether and how to fight back against the evil Nazis
• Luck is mentioned, “Perhaps luck would be on the side of the Jews tonight”
• A man utters, “By the gods”
• In a moment that feels very innocent, the book mentions Katarina is prepping for a bath when she “stepped out of her dress, standing there in only a slip”.
• When referencing things that were missed from before the Nazis, they include “Stolen kisses behind backyard sheds)”
• Judah “curses under his breath”