Is House of Earth and Blood Clean? Profanity and Content Guide for the Audiobook

Danny Ellis 2 min read
Verdict
Heavy

A substantial share of the book gets filtered, and most listeners will choose to skip a meaningful amount.

27h 50m audiobook, 1,593 filtered segments, 6.2% of the runtime gets skipped at full strength.

House of Earth and Blood is an adult book, and the data makes that plain. The first Crescent City novel from Sarah J. Maas has 1,574 tagged moments across almost twenty-eight hours, and the filters remove about an hour and 42 minutes, six percent of the story. Two categories drive that. Sexual content accounts for roughly an hour on its own: 69 moments, 17 rated severe, with the longest severe scene running about nine and a half minutes. Profanity is the other: 1,339 tags, and 544 of them are severe. That is a strong word every minute or so, which is the part I'd most want a teen reader's parent to know. Violence adds about 20 minutes, with 15 severe moments, and there are 19 slurs, every one rated severe. Crude humor and substance use show up often enough to notice. Elizabeth Evans keeps narrating through all of it, and even with every filter on, you still get a coherent story. If you're an adult who wants the fantasy and the mystery without the explicit material, turn on Sexual Content at every level and Profanity at moderate and severe. That covers the bulk of what people object to. For a teenager, I'd skip this one, even filtered. The skipped time is long enough, and the constant language dense enough, that I'd hold this one back from a younger fan.

What we filtered

Category Mild Moderate Severe Total Time
Profanity 318 490 548 1356 14m 12s
Slur 0 0 19 19 19s
Blasphemy 10 11 0 21 19s
Violence 27 41 15 83 20m 25s
Sexual Content 24 28 17 69 1h 1m
Crude Humor 27 0 0 27 3m 9s
Substance Use 12 4 0 16 2m 18s
Hate Speech 0 2 0 2 14s

Profanity, by word: 500 f-ck, 225 sh-t, 167 h-ll, 156 -ss, 58 d-mn, and 250 more across 13 other words. (Word-level filters let you keep some words and skip others. Your library, your rules.)

The heaviest single chapter: 6, with 69 filtered segments across all categories.

The longest single scene we flagged runs about 9m 30s in Chapter 69 and falls under sexual content.

What you get back when you filter House of Earth and Blood on AudioHaven

  • Same book, same narrator (Elizabeth Evans), same story.
  • About 1h 42m of total filterable runtime, which you choose to keep or skip by category and by severity.
  • Real-time skipping. The book plays straight through, with a soft cut where each segment lives.

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