Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Credence by Penelope Douglas

177 reviews

ellavlind's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Jag gick från att älska till att hata kaleb jag vet inte hur många gånger men är glad att jag hade hopp om honom hela boken🫡🫡 så fkn bra. Jag GRÄT när kaleb pratade, älskar honom🫶 DOCK är scenen i hennes sovrum och kaleb inte något jag uppskattade direkt, vet inte vad det räknas som heller

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Sexual content, and Incest

emmabemba's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I hated this book. It has all the things I didn’t like in a book especially when it’s dark romance. All the MC are red flags like the worst of them. They’re extra possessive and manipulate Tiernan all along the book.

I’m not going to lie: I didn’t like who she ended with because he’s an abuser and he’s violent. Even if the other son isn’t violent, he still blackmailed her 😤

⚠️ Huge disclaimer: sexual assault, violent scenes and also detailed sexual scenes are present in the book. So it can be pretty triggering ⚠️

But why am I giving 3 stars to this book? Because I felt for Tiernan. She had a terrible childhood and her parents didn’t love her through her teenage years. They loved each other and let Nannies take care of her 🥺 I cried while reading some scenes because she didn’t deserve it and I love her growth and evolution throughout the book 🥹🥹 she got more confident, spoke more and knew what she wanted. Her and Penelope’s writing made me put a 4 ⭐️.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Misogyny, and Sexual assault

cheeserue's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

"One phone call, a coach seat, and four states later, it finally occurs to me . . . I don’t know these people."

I have mixed feelings about this one. it was entertaining enough to pull me in and want to finish reading, but also the characters made me want to scream.

Tiernan is a meekly little thing who's never felt the love of her parents, not because they weren't there, but because they are too far up each other's asses to care about the fact that they chose to have a child. this causes her to not develop a personality or any self survival skills. she ships herself off to her "uncle" whom she's never met and barely heard of.

the boys are a combination of a 40somthing year old 'step' uncle who fucks the 25 y/o  neighborhood skanks, a who psychopathic mute who immediately tried to rape her upon meeting, and Noah who I kinda liked.

I will never understand why she chose keleb, they barely spend time together and when they are in the same room he has the most red flags out of all of them. you could play a drinking game with all the shitty things he does to her; but for some reason she forgives every little thing he's done the second she finds those books.

I'll give it to Penelope, she did have me feeling a bit for him while I was reading those 'journal' entries, however his trauma and inability to speak does not cancel out how toxic he was the whole book.

that threesome scene had me sweating like a sinner in church. 

don't even get me started with the ending. automatic loss of star for pregnancy trope, not all stories need to end in a marriage and kids.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Bullying, Rape, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness

alex_bousquet's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Lots of red flags that were ignored. But I absolutely loved reading this book and watching each character grow and become adults basically. Needed more spice 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, and Incest

Minor: Pregnancy, Child abuse, and Rape

kristen3212's review against another edition

dark emotional 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 content, and Death of parent

Moderate: Rape and Incest

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, and Suicide

ashburttt's review

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

0.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death of parent, Grief, Sexual assault, Incest, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Toxic relationship

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Drug use, and Addiction

sugar_b0nes's review

adventurous fast-paced

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

1.5

rape and trauma is undermined to put it lightly

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Forced institutionalization

annabelleg's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

3.5

This was something to say the least, I did enjoy it a little but the long chapters and the general relationship made it kinda hard to get through at points. It’s the longest it’s taken me to read something in a long time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Animal death, Suicide, Sexual harassment, Rape, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Animal cruelty, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Stalking, Pregnancy, Adult/minor relationship, Violence, Incest, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Death, and Confinement

jcoates's review against another edition

dark 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? No

2.5

This was an uncomfortable read and so many plot points are messed up.

The men in this long-lost extended family often regard her as a daughterly/ sisterly figure, but she has sexual worth all of them.

 

I get that it’s a dark-themed romance but the kissing-cousins vibe isn’t my idea of a sexy time.  

That said, it was so over the top that I was curious enough to binge the audiobook in two days. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Confinement, Child abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, and Alcoholism

Minor: Rape and Cancer

abbysingh's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Cursing, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, Suicide, Death of parent, Misogyny, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Incest, Abandonment, Fire/Fire injury, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Excrement, Drug use, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Sexual harassment, Grief, Addiction, Blood, Gore, Alcohol, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail