Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Credence by Penelope Douglas

47 reviews

sizzlesteaks's review

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

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

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

booknerdxo88's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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: Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Rape, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Child abuse, Death of parent, and Misogyny

britrcup's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad 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

2.0

This book is dark. It's  taboo. It's spicy. It was like watching a car crash, I wanted so badly to look away but I couldn't. I enjoyed the endgame but I do think a lot of the dark/taboo parts of the book could have been cut out. The complex trauma is written really well and overall the plot is okay. If you are a fan of dark (and I mean really dark) romances and can look past the content warnings the romance might be worth it for you. This is not a book for you if you are looking for fluff.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, Violence, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Cancer

brookey8888's review

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

4.0

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

angrybookworm's review

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? It's complicated

0.25

This is maybe the worst thing I've ever read. The quality of writing reminds me of wattpad in a really terrible way, the characters are all awful, horrible, disgusting people. I genuinely fear anyone who enjoyed this story or who think any of the events in this book are okay

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Rape, Sexual harassment, Incest, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Stalking, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicide, Pedophilia, Domestic abuse, and Death of parent

finnickdeservedbetter's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Misogyny

Moderate: Blood, Confinement, Pedophilia, Sexual harassment, Violence, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse

Minor: Abandonment, Child abuse, Animal death, Death of parent, Cancer, Gun violence, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Terminal illness

Yeah, I'll be honest...the LI is

an abusive rapist

who's unlikable in ever single way. "He

raped

you? Well boo hoo, his mommy didn't love him enough." I like dark and sometimes taboo romance but not the glamorization and romanticization of SA and domestic abuse. This honestly should have just been a dnf but I wanted to give it a full review with a star rating. The .5 is honestly just for the cabin and horses at this point. I was recommended Birthday Girl and this by a friend (I know you're reading this Kenzie) and liked BG a lot so I thought I would like this too. No. Just no. It wasn't even the

full on incest

that bothered me. The problem was the gigantic bag of skid marked gym socks called "Kaleb". He can chew rocks.

readiac1999's review

dark emotional mysterious medium-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

I honestly have a lot of mixed opinions on this book. I think that I couldn't get behind the "forbidden love" aspects and would definitely recommend looking up trigger warnings because I sure didn't and regret that a bit. Picked up because of BookTok recommendation and because it was on Kindle Unlimited. The writing was good but I think the relationships between the characters just weren't for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Sexual assault, Fire/Fire injury, Adult/minor relationship, and Misogyny

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Cancer, Blood, Pregnancy, Drug abuse, Death of parent, and Confinement

shaylee_reads's review

dark 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

4.0

Ratings:

Plot:⭐⭐⭐ /5 

Writing:⭐⭐⭐⭐ /5

Characters:⭐⭐⭐⭐ /5

Romance:⭐⭐⭐⭐ /5

Diversity:⭐ /5

Overall:⭐⭐⭐⭐ /5

Sadness:💧 /5

Spice:🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ /5
Tropes & kinks: Age gap's, BDSM elements (spanking and bondage), threesome, forced proximity and found family. 

Note: Please check the content warnings before reading this book. Also if this book isn't something you are into that is okay just don't hate on people who do like the book!

Credence by Penelope Douglas follows Tiernan De Haas, the only child of a famous film producer and his scarlet wife. When her parents suddenly pass Tiernan is sent to live with Jake Van der Berg, her father's stepbrother and only living relative and his two sons Noah and Kaleb who she has never met before in their isolated cabin in the mountains of Colorado. When the three of them take her under their wing and teach her how to survive on her own, Tiernan starts to find her place among them and begins to build something that she's never truly had… a family. 

This book is a dark romance and does deal with some triggering and taboo topics so please look into trigger warnings before reading it. I have the trigger warnings at the bottom of my review.

Ever since I started reading smutty romance I had heard about Penelope Douglas books everywhere so I decided to pick Credence up and I ended up thoroughly enjoying this book. 

One of the best aspects of this book is Penelope Douglas writing, it's very immersive and addicting. It really makes you feel like you are in the mountains of Colorado. Honestly I kinda wish I had read this book while camping because it would have made it that much better. The one problem with her writing that I have is the fact that she uses the word dive way too often and now everytime I see that work in her books I'm filled with an insane amount of rage. Seriously i've counted it, she uses the word dive 33 times!! That is a lot!! 

This book took me about a month to read due to the fact that this book is dark and it was hard to read a lot of it at one time. There's also not a lot is happening throughout and there was nothing that really makes you have to keep reading but it also wasn't boring at any points because there was no points where I was bored while reading this book but when a chapter would end it was easy to put it down and say you would read more later. 

The characters in this book are definitely going through some crap! As I was reading this book I would tab anytime I would think to myself "wow they need therapy" and as you probably guessed there was a lot, 24 to be exact and I actually kept count of how many times I tabed something for which character. Noah had 3, Tiernan had 5, Jake had 7, and coming in with a total of 13 tabs is kalab. Even though these characters definitely need therapy I did absolutely love them and loved seeing their character grow and get better especially Kalab.

The romance in this story is definitely taboo but I absolutely ate it up. I absolutely loved seeing Tiernan's relationships with Jake, Noah, and Kalab evolve into what they are in the end of the book. I loved seeing her create a family with them and seeing them all grow together. 

I know a lot of people don't like who she ends up with and I can see why they would prefer her with Jake or Noah because her relationship with them did seem more throughout and developed and I honestly feel like if we had gotten to see kalabs point of view throughout the whole book it would have developed their relationship a little bit more. So I completely understand why people didn't like her ending up with Kalab but I personally absolutely love her and Kalab together and I had even gone through and highlighted every thing Kalab had done throughout the book to show that he cared about her. 

I loved them being together because they are both similar people, they had both gone through trauma that had caused them to pull away from people and Tiernan was someone who Kalab could connect with without talking and he didn't need to talk for her to understand him. She also was someone who didn't push him to talk and was fine with just sitting there and not talking due to the fact that she didn't like talking either. She understood him. 

Also I do not agree with any of the things Kalab did to her in this book. 

This book is definitely a taboo book and is not meant for everybody so go into this book with that in mind and please if you don't like this book don't hate on people that do. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, and Suicide

Moderate: Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Blood

Minor: Bullying, Cancer, Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

eddine's review against another edition

challenging 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

4.0

the smut and the sexual tension is chefs kiss skksksksksks byee

idk abt the toxicity thooo liekkk

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Abandonment, Confinement, Cursing, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Violence

glubprince's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

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

2.0

TW for Credence:  incest, sexual assault (including “non-con”)

i originally got this book since it was so highly rated and i wanted something ~spicy~ to read but  while it was fast paced/short enough to keep me interested enough to finish it, i could never really get “into” it because it leaned so heavily into the incest stuff, to put it bluntly.

the scenes with Jake were okay (if toeing the line when they kept bringing up the “uncle” of it all), but the threesomes with Kaleb and Noah were just off putting for me.

i am also personally uncomfortable with non-con so i didn’t really enjoy

most of the scenes with Kaleb nor the fact that they ended up together

.

finally, the “character development” felt more like a sudden switch than something that was earned.

if none if that stuff phases you, then you’ll probably enjoy this book. but to me, it was a little hard to get past.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Incest, Cursing, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death of parent, Alcohol, Violence, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Child abuse, Addiction, Animal death, Body shaming, Confinement, and Misogyny