Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Credence by Penelope Douglas

94 reviews

kotashomelibrary's review

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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

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

Minor: Gun violence and Incest

booksofautumn's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

maskihaan's review against another edition

dark 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

3.75

ngl i’m in shock. like what did i just read and why tf did i find that so hot. help 😂

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Confinement, Incest, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Blood, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

sienasummerrreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.0

Well, what a wild ride I say. It was going well for most of this book until there was a turning point in why she choose a particular love interest in the end. I did enjoy the book don’t get me wrong just the actions of one character lashing out made me struggle for the last 100 pages of the book I didn’t feel anything for them. I also found it didn’t have much of a plot. The plot mainly revolves around the FMC. My order of choice would be Jake, Noah then Kaleb personally for me. The spice, tension and angst were fantastic though and I enjoyed the intimate emotional moments. Just wished it played out a little differently. 

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Genre/Type: Taboo Romance 18+

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Pages: 470

Rating: 🌟🌟🌟

Spice: 🌶️🌶️.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Violence

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Blood, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

sizzlesteaks's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Incest, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Death, Suicide, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Minor: Addiction, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

unicornofthesea's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful tense slow-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: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Drug use, and Alcohol

aublyn105's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

4.0

<spoilers>   4/5 stars

as a woman, i am disappointed in myself that i really enjoyed this book. my feminism is just so far out of the window at this point.
not going to lie, i was rooting for jake through most of it. noah wasn't it for me and he was my least favorite. i did like how 'mysterious' kaleb was so i was excited she finally spent a lot of time with him.
towards the end though, i didn't like the time jumps. i was excited to find out how noah and jake reacted to kaleb speaking again, and their reaction to tiernan and kaleb getting into a relationship. that would've made the book better; in my opinion.
nonetheless, i think it was very good and fun overall. the writing was giving very much wattpad, but that's okay. that's what made it extremely addicting:) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, and Abandonment

Minor: Animal death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

zc2's review

dark funny lighthearted tense medium-paced

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

4.0

The book was overall good. I fully expected her and Noah to get together and when they didn’t I was a little sad. Kalebs character was good don’t get me wrong but I do feel as though some of his actions were uncalled for and ruthless. As far as Jake goes man….. he’s a dilf for sure but like sir that’s your niece. Not to mention Noah was there pretty much every time teiranan would ya know and she was just like yea no i don’t like you. Anyway the more trigger warnings the better I guess. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Incest, Misogyny, Rape, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

beckyrae's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Death, Incest, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Cancer, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

jasminealizae's review

challenging dark sad medium-paced

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

1.0

It was really disturbing to me that during the sex scenes, in their inner monologue, the characters would compare/describe the other as a child.

This excerpt comes from Kaleb's POV as he's raping the fmc Tiernan:
'...he squats down to slide her panties down her legs. And if he weren't looking at a woman's body, he might think a child was speaking to him with how innocent and sweet she sounded.'

Another scene between Tiernan and Kaleb, Tiernan thinks to herself:
'And last night, I didn't hold back in his bed, but today, I know I can't go there again, and he doesn't get it, because he's like a fucking child.' then proceeds to have sex with him?

Between the incest, rape, misogyny, illegal minor/adult relationship, physical and mental abuse it was hard to pretend to care about the subplots Penelope Douglas strung along when there wasn't erotica. 

Having spite-finished this book I can confidently say Penelope definitely just wanted to write smutty book about incest. Adding a back story for Tiernan and Kaleb regarding their absent parents, and Jakes shortcomings with love, was fluff as Jake and his kids waited for Tiernan to turn 18 so that they could legally engage in sexual activities with her. The addition of Cici Diggins, Terrance Holcomb and Mirai were extremely irrelevant and fell tremendously short in their attempt to keep us distracted from the hot mess that was this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

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