“Accept responsibility for your actions. Be accountable for your results. Take ownership for your mistakes.”

               --Anonymous

Ethic is the second novel to the book ‘Moth to a Flame’, and it shows how this one man has grown as a person, and father with his three children. The book will show how one mistake can impact a lot of things, and make you anxious to know the end.

Ethic is a man trying to raise a family, and be the best he can be. When his oldest child, Morgan, was sexually assaulted he takes justice into his hands but ends up making an adverse mistake. While in the act of killing his daughter's rapist, he also shoots a little girl, on accident. This haunts Ethic, and stops him from proceeding in his love with the little girl’s mother, Alani. This book eventually makes turn and expresses their love in more depth but when his secret is revealed everything changes.

The two main characters are Alani and Ethnic. They both are in different situations in life and I feel like it was there differences that brought them together. On on hand Alani is struggling financially very bad but is a hard worker, on the other Ethnic is not struggling, he’s always been a hustler so money isn’t a big factor. He’s just missing a key piece in his life, a women. He is very picky about the women he spends time with but Alani was perfect for him.

Ethnic is a very raw story. In this urban novel, the dialogue demonstrates the connection between characters and how they didn’t hide their emotions from each other without saying anything directly, allowing us, the readers, to make accurate assumptions . It is also wrote in a way that, mainly black people can understand. The overall language connects to black audiences and empowers us to visualize the scenes and settings of the book.

This book wraps around how life is on the streets for people of color, and how serious revenge is for men in these conditions. It also touches on owning up for your actions. I recommend Ethic to anyone whose read, ‘The Moth to a Flame’, likes urban novels, or stories involving drama. The obstacles characters go through will really pull you in and keep you reading.