Reviews tagging 'Incest'

Credence by Penelope Douglas

345 reviews

haleydeppert's review

challenging dark 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

3.0

This is a hard book to review. This book has been all the rage on BookTok right now, so I wanted to give it a try. It definitely pushed my boundaries of comfortability. Although I did thoroughly enjoy the writing of the spicy scenes, it remained hard to get past the familial relations in this book. I did not feel much romance or true love at all—more possessiveness, jealousy, and abuse—but as a book should, it kept me entertained. Three stars because it kept my attention and my eyes were glued to the page. However, character development fell extremely flat and storylines felt quite rushed. Not to mention the familial relations… weird.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Cursing, Blood, Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Animal death, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, Incest, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Sexism, Sexual harassment, Violence, Death of parent, Misogyny, and Pregnancy

liad24's review against another edition

dark sad 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Abandonment, and Death of parent

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Incest, Sexual content, Cursing, and Medical content

tierraskye's review

fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Abandonment, Sexual violence, Suicide, Pregnancy, Gun violence, Incest, Death of parent, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Rape, Animal death, Confinement, and Toxic relationship

_kirby_'s review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-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

Honestly, I really enjoyed this book. 

I went through similar trauma to Tiernan and I connected with her. I too had my moments where I just wanted to be loved and looked for anyone to make me feel good & feel loved because I never felt like I was loved by my father or anyone else in my life other than my mom - like tiernan with her parents. 


It may just be me but I didn’t think this was anything too crazy regarding dark romance but to each their own. If you are triggered by abuse, death of parents, aggressive male behavior, lots of sex and even scenes that are on the verge of rape, don’t read this book. 

The character development is great in my opinion and to see all of the characters help eachother heal their trauma is awesome! Regardless of how that healing is done. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Stalking, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Death, Domestic abuse, Rape, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Cursing, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Incest

redstapler7's review against another edition

dark sad 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

1.5

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Content Warnings

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

mama_meg's review against another edition

Not into the incest. Step Uncle or not, it’s sick and I’m not interested. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Grief, Rape, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, and Sexual content

carole_cookie's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, and Rape

bookishemmy's review

dark fast-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

4.25

I absolutely should not have enjoyed this as much as I did, but this was a great book. Read in one sitting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Incest

Moderate: Sexual harassment and Sexual violence

lyssworm27's review

challenging dark 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

3.5

this book was very engaging and i did enjoy the plot. i loved the evolution of the characters and how they all healed together. the only thing i was bothered by was the forbidden romances. i don't like huge age gap relationships and i thought the undertones of incest made the book kind of creepy. even tho theyre not blood related, it was still weird. i am conflicted tho. that is a huge turn off for me but i did enjoy reading the book otherwise. i liked how they were in a mountain town and she learned how to take care of land and animals. there is smut in it so just be prepared for that 😭

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest

aliceguerrieri's review

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

0.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Death of parent, Animal death, Blood, Domestic abuse, Incest, and Emotional abuse