Language and drinking by comparison are both tame. Heterosexual sex is described as rough and passionate with few concrete details. Some deaths are huge losses to the main characters. There are assassinations with knives and crossbow, and one man is stabbed repeatedly in retaliation. Gore is well described in hand-to-hand combat: A man's throat is torn out and other men are killed brutally. Nails are hammered into men's heads until they die.
Thousands of soldiers are killed in many skirmishes and then displayed on stakes all together. Here we see very clearly where Lada got her brutal nickname. Bright We Burn, like the rest of the series, is best for high school readers and up who are ready for the mature content and able to more fully contemplate the complex themes. Set in the Ottoman Empire (15th century) and offering many details about the period, this story is based on the life of Vlad the Impaler (the inspiration for Dracula), had Vlad been a female named Lada instead. Parents need to know that Bright We Burn is the third and final book in the And I Darken series by Kiersten White, author of the popular Paranormalcy trilogy.
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