Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Credence by Penelope Douglas

297 reviews

sae3005's review against another edition

4.0

dark sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The ending made no sense to me. The whole plot just completely disappeared. The rest, is whatever. Typical to what I usually read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Stalking, Death of parent

teamwombat's review against another edition

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I genuinely don’t know how to rate this book. There’s grooming, incest, underage, multiple sexual assaults, threats of gang bangs and rape and that’s all in the opening chapters. The story then becomes an out of town/class girl trying to change a man who clearly should be in jail instead of getting therapy she actually needs. 

I mean to say, it’s awful… but I read it. Probably shouldn’t have… but I read it. I read the whole thing and I wish I hadn’t. 

The ending is a very convenient 5 years on happy ever after that frankly no one needed or buying. 

It’s bad. It’s just bad. 

There should just be plain old warnings for this, not just trigger ones. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment

calistoyles's review against another edition

3.75

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: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Death of parent

adk1594's review against another edition

4.5

dark 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Alcohol

This book can be triggering and the author did include a trigger warning. Please be mindful that the triggers pertain to the character’s development and are reoccurring.

strawb3rryreads's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship

klradford's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Wild ride for sure messed up family but it was a pretty great book. I am excited to read more from this author! Man the ending was exactly what I needed!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Rape, Suicide

sophieseltz's review against another edition

2.5

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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“Uncle Jake” gives me the ick… Noah and Kaleb are great

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Sexual harassment

acresofaden's review against another edition

0.25

challenging dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I have never had to force myself to finish a book the way I had to with whatever this was. The characters were unreal, and not in a compliment way, but in a way that there is no way anyone would ever be like this in real life. So many things happened in this book where I had to shut it, take a lap, and try to reconnect with nature. 

This book will stay with me, haunt me during nights where I feel at peace, only to remind me that this is something I had to read and sit with. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Sexual assault

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief

abjectbitch's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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One of the worst books I’ve read in my entire life. It was like a car crash. So horrific but I couldn’t look away. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Death of parent, Sexual harassment

matilda1666's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: N/A

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Worst thing I've ever read. Need to preface this by saying I read this for a challenge and it turned out to be even worde than anticipated. Toxic, creepy, and incestuous (not to mention the other weird implications); it is also horribly written. I'm begging the author to learn about writing longer sentences. No real character development whatsoever and no diversity either cause they're fucking related. Very concerned about the SA that's never adressed. This would be way better as a atockholm syndrome thriller.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment