Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

Credence by Penelope Douglas

19 reviews

sldibened's review against another edition

2.25

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I saw a review that said “wtf is this book?” And I could not agree more. This book was OFF. Really distasteful writing and plot. I’m by no means someone who gets offended or believes in political correctness, but a female referring to her own genitalia as the “c-word”, is tasteless and just not for me. On top of that, the plot  doesn’t kick off until the mid 200 pages. Definitely read the content warnings on this one and good luck lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Incest, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment

meat_muffin's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Gore, Blood, Grief, Pregnancy, Alcohol

Minor: Cancer

eoderkirk's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Strong character development: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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

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

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

kotashomelibrary's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Infidelity, Sexual content, Blood, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment

Moderate: Death, Violence, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Gun violence, Incest

brookey8888's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional 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

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I really enjoyed this book! It would have been a five star except for a few reasons. Which are slight spoilers. 
Reason 1 I didn’t really like Jake. I don’t like age Gap romances and I can usually ignore it, but not in this one. I liked him better when it wasn’t a sexual relationship honestly.
Reason 2 who she loves didn’t really make sense to me. Like it makes sense, but the “love” part came out of nowhere to me. They had like 5 good interactions.
Reason 3 I felt bad for Noah. He was just so sweet and my favorite.
Reason 4 I thought it was fine who she ended up with, but I feel like it should have been like a poly relationship.
Other then these things it was really good and entertaining. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Incest, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Acephobia/Arophobia, Abandonment, Sexual harassment

stupidcat's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Abandonment

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Cancer, Infidelity, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail

amy_thomson's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual content

whrohala's review against another edition

2.0

challenging dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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To be honest, I was disappointed by this book. It was really hyped up by booktok, but then didn't deliver on its promise. #1 offense: not actually reverse harem in my opinion. Just a FMC with multiple partners, who is brutally shamed for that fact by 2 out of 3 of them. There were some moments where the shaming was so over the top, and the FMC just accepted it, that I felt like this book was more of a way for the author to express their internalized slut-shaming more than anything else. 

The female MC ends up with the man who nearly rapes her TWICE, hits her across the face for being "hysterical" while getting stitches in a kitchen with no pain meds or anesthetic, and attacts and spits in her face when she sleeps with someone other than him, in addition to many other things. In my opinion, that speaks volumes to how this author views her female characters.

Only reason it isn't getting a 1 is because the quality of writing was good overall, despite what the plot lacked. And it delivered on the spice, though more of a slow burn than advertised. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Abandonment

Moderate: Drug use, Incest, Infidelity, Sexual assault

sarahlikestoread's review against another edition

2.5

dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Gaslighting

Minor: Animal death, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Incest, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment