Is Ender's Shadow Clean? Profanity and Content Guide for the Audiobook

Ender's Shadow retells the Battle School years through Bean, a tiny, brilliant kid who survived the streets before he was recruited, and the language reflects where he came from. Of 259 tagged moments, 162 are profanity, but the profile is mild and moderate, with nothing severe. It's frequent rather than strong: kids at a military school talking the way kids at a military school talk. The total filtered time is about twelve minutes in a fifteen-and-a-half-hour book. Violence takes the most time, almost nine minutes across fifty-seven moments, eight of them severe, with the longest at about twenty-two seconds. Eleven severe slurs are short but worth knowing about, along with nine moderate religious exclamations and seventeen mild crude humor moments. Sexual content is nearly absent, two mild moments. If your kid read Ender's Game and wants more, this is a natural next book. For a twelve- or thirteen-year-old, I'd turn on profanity at all levels, slurs, blasphemy, and severe violence. That cuts out a few minutes and removes the constant low-grade language that adds up over fifteen hours. Older teens can probably drop the profanity filter and keep the rest. It's a great book to finish with the filters doing the quiet work.