Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Angels Before Man by rafael nicolás

49 reviews

booklix's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-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

4.5

Waouh.
I just don't know what to think. Do not read this book if your are Christian.(I do not know how the book wasn't already banned.)

 The prose was really whimsical and detailed: every paragraph was as worth reading and necessary.


The  entire ride was just so emotional: Lucifer felt so "human", his struggles and questions and just his character we as so well written.

I really bound with the characters

when Gabriel was to tured by the fallen angel I was devastated

the ending of Lucifer and Michael we as also heartbreaking, I just want to know what happens next

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, and Murder

c_alexander's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Dysphoria, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Sexual content, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Rape

pandem0nium's review

dark emotional lighthearted reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

the twink to king of hell pipeline 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Self harm, Violence, Religious bigotry, and War

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Rape, and Sexual violence

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

thesvnthsense's review

dark emotional medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Rape, Self harm, and Violence

Moderate: Incest

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

katbotelho's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

4.5

What i sit back and think about the beginning of the book and i think about how it ended i think to myself how the fuck did we end up here.

author has a really good way of describing things and made me nauseous when i had to read about the self harm and violence. the beginning is kinda slow but i still enjoyed it. at times it was hard to understand bc their was very little indication of a pov switch but u get used it after a while 

left me with a lot of questions at the end like

how did asmodeus go from running from the orgy in fear to running home to rosier and sexually assaulting him  ??

and

were rosier and asmodeus some if the angels that fell with lucifer bc rosier seemed pretty on board to follow him ?

i guess i’d have to read the second book to find out perhaps. overall i enjoyed it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Self harm, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Sexual content, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

regisreed1's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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

5.0

Beautiful prose and storytelling. Such an interesting take on the Morningstar/fall of the angels theology-- you know what's coming at the end, but the road there is so lovely you can't stop, and the fall is horrifying. This book devastated me in the best way.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Rape and Sexual violence

Minor: Self harm and Sexual content

The author splits the narration into sections, and readers can choose not to continue into part three where the majority of these warnings come up. The violence tag is present throughout the novel as the angels play games that cause bodily harm that can be mended, but is gruesome.

naiadtales's review

dark emotional funny sad slow-paced

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

3.5

I'm a bit conflicted on how to rate this book. The first half was some of the most beautiful writing I've read in a while and I enjoyed witnessing Lucifer's growth but the second half was where the confusion comes in. I understand that it may have been written this way to depict Lucifer's declining mental state but boy was it still hard to follow along. Also some of the choices/paths that the characters took were so nonsensical to me it felt like I was reading 3 different books

Asmodeous raping rosier?? Why ? I get the corruption but I felt like it was already alluded to that they had this kind of relationship from the jump so why was this necessary?

 

I enjoy stories where non-humans are showcased doing human things and I this was one of the things I enjoyed about ABM. It was cool watching the angels discover themselves and jumping through dozens of hobbies in a bid to pass the time. Another thing I enjoyed was the snippets we got of the time before realization(that may not be the correct phrase) but the stories that we got from the time of the first angels like Uriel (who should honestly needs to get a damn life). It was sad though that these bits came between mentions of other events and was in some cases such a jarring jump from what was actually happening.

My favorite scene is when Rosier admits to never having seen god, or even given much consideration to his existence. He just knows that he is real because of all the splendor that he sees.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Rape

asteria_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Grief, Suicide attempt, and War

angelie_jelly's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Sexual content, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

brdiaz1123's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Grief, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cannibalism and Toxic friendship