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Credence by Penelope Douglas

128 reviews

tairameadowcroft's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Violence and Sexual harassment

Minor: Death of parent

ajinxe's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Incest, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

charbookchar's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Gun violence, and Incest

Minor: Pregnancy

eoderkirk's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

What a unique storyline. I feel weird saying I really enjoyed it lol I feel like I should be more weirded out than I am but oh well! I was hooked! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Incest, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, Death of parent, Violence, Torture, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Gun violence, Rape, Violence, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, Blood, Cursing, Abandonment, and Hate crime

Minor: Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Addiction, Drug use, and Animal cruelty

caitlinreads123's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

2.0

wtf was that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Incest, Grief, Drug use, Animal death, Alcohol, Violence, Torture, Sexual violence, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Rape, Murder, Medical content, Mental illness, Gun violence, Gore, Gaslighting, Death of parent, Cursing, Child abuse, and Bullying

flisss's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

malisorayray's review against another edition

tense slow-paced

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

3.25

This was just OK. I was into the plot line at first. The story was Interesting and the pace was pretty good, but the MC’s aloofness started to get old quickly. Then, the story got spicy AF, and that was fun! I thought the story dragged on too long and a lot of the happenings were just unbelievable and fantastical. Basically, the smut was good but the story was weak. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Rape, and Sexual harassment

renreadsbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

1.75

I don’t know what I expected out of this story when I heard what it was about but this just wasn’t my jam. If you’re into taboo relationships this is probably better for you. It was written decent? It kept me engaged the entire time, while I hated what I was reading, I had to know how it ended. I know they are not blood related but the constant use of family terminology was icky to me and the MC being freshly legal but still in school was just weird. She could have been college age, but I understand it’s part of the plot for her to be underage. I don’t know if this was also meant to be a bully type novel but some of the stuff that happened/ was said  to the MC was super messed up. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Bullying

Moderate: Alcohol, Classism, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Incest, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

savannah_faith's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

A 5 star rating for Credence, can we get a round of applause for Penelope Douglas? Because wow, just wow am I speechless after finishing this book. I went into Credence knowing some but not all about this book. I knew the relationship of the characters and that there were some questionable actions happening between them, I just never would’ve expected to love it so much. The overwhelming way I instantly connected to the emotional struggles of the FMC, I wanted to put the book down and never pick it up again but it continued to call me and read it. So I gave in to the temptation and stayed up till 4/5am just trying to read as much as I could. Feeling every emotion Tiernan felt throughout the whole book, placing myself in her shoes, in her story, just to escape from mine. I cried, I laughed, and I loved all through this fictional girl who probably saved my life tonight. Waiting till the day I find my Kaleb. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Sexual harassment, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Blood, Grief, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, and Emotional abuse

geooo's review against another edition

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

This was the worst book I read in my entire life. 1 star is too much for this bad excuse of a book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Rape