"The Revenant" by Michael Punke (Parent Guide)

                 The Revenant Parent Guide

18+! Contains Extreme Gore, several explicit sexual references, and infrequent heavy Profanity!

Spoilers in Red!

Positive Messages: 1/10

None really, though it does show the will of one man to survive and receive justice, and the extreme lengths he will go to to survive. The entire novel is about his quest for revenge, although he does show mercy to Bridger at the end and does not kill him. 

Positive Role Models: 3/10

While Hugh Glass is a sympathetic and good man who appreciates nature, and knows what it takes to survive in the wild, and the lenths he has to go to, he is unforgiving to his enemies, which isn't necessarily bad, but nonetheless, this is not for kids.

Profanity: 6/10

Heavy, but neither pervasive or infrequent. A couple of uses of S**t, and a few sexual references.

Sex & Nudity: 5/10

Multiple explicit references.

Drinking: 4/10 

A few scenes are while the rough frontiersmen are drinking.

Smoking/Drugs: 1/10 

Very infrequent and short.

Violence/Gore: 10/10

Extreme Gore. Aside form all the battles with Indians and so on, Glass gets brutally maules by a Grizzly bear, which is described in a couple of pages, before his wounds are talked about. His throat is nearly severed, his scalp is hanging form his head, deep cuts all over his body, and later, maggots infest his wounds. He is attacked by a rattlesnake, although it's only a nightmare, it will still make you flinch. Brutal, bloody beatings, stabbings,  etc, make this book absuloutely not for anyone under 18. I've read some horrific books, but this one has to be one of the worst novels, made all the more harder to bear as it's based on a true story.

Frightening/Intense: 6/10

Extremely intense.

18+ only!