Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Moth to a Flame by Ashley Antoinette

16 reviews

trizk's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

"You deserve everything that's coming to you." 

The novella, "Moth to a Flame" follows Raven as she navigates her late teens to adulthood in a toxic relationship with Mizan. 

This book can only be described as a whirlwind, I found myself charmed by the humor while simultaneously irritated at the situations Raven wound up in

because of yknow who.

. Ashley Antoinette does a good job showing the dangers of staying in abusive situations and the havoc and damage it can bring to life.

How the sex scenes were described in this book wasn't really my thing, and my copy had a handful of spelling errors or the sentences were structured wrong.  However, I thoroughly enjoyed the story's pacing and was incredibly impressed by how Antoinette can make the reader care for multiple characters in such a short amount of pages. 

Definitely recommend for readers to check trigger warnings before reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Stalking, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, and Classism

miawhite30's review against another edition

tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

The  book itself reminded me of Flyy Girl by Omar Tyree and The Coldest Winter ever by Sister Souljah mixed into one. Sidenote: If you like this book I recommend reading those other two. 
The main character in this book was sooo frustrating. I understand that she was teenage girl who knew nothing about nothing but there were some moments where she did things that were so dumb it was unforgivable.  

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Rape, Toxic relationship, Violence, Stalking, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Torture

catigram's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

sabrinaincolor's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

I read this book after reading Ethic 1-3 so I think I expected a bit more and there were things that were inconsistent in this book compared to Ethic. Ethic is also just a much better story. I may have ranked this higher if I read it in order. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Murder

ksamaine95's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Violence

thewellreadlabrador's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Car accident, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Miscarriage

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Rape, Torture, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, Trafficking, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

brytniedevon's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book was extremely hard breaking but Ashley Antoinette does an exceptional job at keeping you on the edge of your seat by incorporating curve balls and roadblocks for the main character, Raven. The storytelling and character development was brilliant. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, and Pregnancy

destheesquire's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Addiction, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

scorttarius's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense

1.0

This book was certainly not for me. I only finished for the messiness but it was too much.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

jadorereadss's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This book absolutely broke me! Raven definitely made me very upset till about 75% into the book, but then I was proud of her. It was such a bad situation she was in and I really hated that for her because no person deserves to go through that. But the ending?!

why would you do that? 😭 why would you let Ethic and Raven get right to each other, he finally learned the truth why she left him, just to have his own goons kill her?! I knew she was gonna die bc I’ve read the Ethic series but still, my heart broke. Nikki didn’t deserve that. I will say that I like the way Ethic decided to revenge Raven

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Abandonment