Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I am a huge, huge fan of this series. Hands down it is my favorite world to visit, my favorite brilliant author who surprises with plot twists and stunning depictions of this world of our future. Favorite, favorite. favorite. I cannot tell you how many people I have turned into fans. I truly wait for each installment, feeling like Christmas morning when it arrives in my kindle. However, I have to give this book one star because of the use in profanity. My teenaged children and I have been shocked by the use of the f word and the vile c word, encountered a dozen times in the first 10% of the book. I am heart broken. The language is so jarring. If we are reading about a fictional future with so many introductions of words that are foreign to us, why use our most profane words while the characters are speaking? Why not make up additional words and phrases for your characters to speak? Using our English curse words is offensive, and using those words dash me back into my "real world." I reached out to Amazon to see if there is a filter option in kindle, where I could block out the words (really? c___?) or use symbols to replace the words or even insert the word llama for them and was told no. Mr. Brown, I love you and I love the world you have created. I don't want to tell you what words to use, but I sure wish I could be in your world without those particular words. It seems each book pushes the boundaries more and more and I absolutely feel how dastardly awful you want us to think of your villains, but....I am saddened to encounter so much awful language, and I am only 10% in. I have told my children (teens who are huge fans as well) that this book is off limits. There is much unhappiness in my house.