Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Credence by Penelope Douglas

92 reviews

katharina90's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

1.0

Awful, problematic, big pick-me energy.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Abandonment

Moderate: Addiction and Gun violence

Minor: Cancer

sldibened's review

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.25

I saw a review that said “wtf is this book?” And I could not agree more. This book was OFF. Really distasteful writing and plot. I’m by no means someone who gets offended or believes in political correctness, but a female referring to her own genitalia as the “c-word”, is tasteless and just not for me. On top of that, the plot  doesn’t kick off until the mid 200 pages. Definitely read the content warnings on this one and good luck lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Incest, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

laurakwiecinski's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

Minor: Addiction, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Blood, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

meat_muffin's review against another edition

adventurous 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Gore, Blood, Grief, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Minor: Cancer

s3vn's review

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

3.25

Well.. if ignoring the sexism, gaslighting, predatory behaviour,  toxic possessiveness, non-consent and the fact that the main character is 17-18… it was okay. i liked the main character, but the guys were a bunch of toxic assholes tbh. Still, the writing and plot was quite alright. I even cried at one point.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Cancer, Drug abuse, and Terminal illness

kaelizaco's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

eoderkirk's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

What a unique storyline. I feel weird saying I really enjoyed it lol I feel like I should be more weirded out than I am but oh well! I was hooked! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Incest, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Cursing, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Alcohol

divvs's review

emotional 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Cursing, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

katticozonac's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-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

1.0

This is not it. I just can’t support a story that features a man, who has two young adult sons, taking in a 17 year old distant relative, whose parents just died and who was neglected her entire life, and having sex with her while also letting his sons have sex with her.

Not to mention all of the physical and emotional abuse that takes place as well as sexual assault.

And we’re all supposed to think this is sexy?!?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Physical abuse, Rape, and Suicide

tinyshiber's review

challenging dark emotional lighthearted tense fast-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

3.25

Once again Penelope Douglas showing me that when I think she writes something fucked up, she shuts me up and writes something even more.
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After a tragic accident Tiernan is orphaned, being in the hands of his uncle, who lives in a town far from the city and his house even further into the forest, he has two sons who do not seem to accept the idea of having a girl at home, because whatever happens, winter will come and they will have to be locked for months the four of them at home. What will happen if Tiernan becomes even more involved in the lives of these men?
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Once again I fell for the BookTok recommendations, the first Red flag I should have seen is that it is written by an author who loves to write about scandalous topics, but I was with the idea that the girl falls in love with a mute guy and well, a broken guy fell in love with a broken girl, is one of my favorite tropes, but lol what I didn't know is that before that, she would go through each of the family members, like we get it you have daddy issues, but your uncle? And her only excuse is that they are not blood brothers, ahhhh thank goodness, I feel even better, I don't know why I finished this book, there were many smuty scenes but so shaddy, I was a little uncomfortable that the girl just turned 18 and everyone wants to steal her little flower, like, and in the end they are all happy, what's wrong with them, they are like animals and nobody thinks it's weird?, the only thing I can say is that it was entertaining? Or at least I think so, with everything that happened I had no time to think it was boring.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Violence

Moderate: Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Minor: Death of parent