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Credence by Penelope Douglas

200 reviews

maddiethealex's review

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Rape, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

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

savannah_faith's review

adventurous emotional sad tense fast-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

5.0

A 5 star rating for Credence, can we get a round of applause for Penelope Douglas? Because wow, just wow am I speechless after finishing this book. I went into Credence knowing some but not all about this book. I knew the relationship of the characters and that there were some questionable actions happening between them, I just never would’ve expected to love it so much. The overwhelming way I instantly connected to the emotional struggles of the FMC, I wanted to put the book down and never pick it up again but it continued to call me and read it. So I gave in to the temptation and stayed up till 4/5am just trying to read as much as I could. Feeling every emotion Tiernan felt throughout the whole book, placing myself in her shoes, in her story, just to escape from mine. I cried, I laughed, and I loved all through this fictional girl who probably saved my life tonight. Waiting till the day I find my Kaleb. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Incest, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Blood, Grief, and Death of parent

felicityvaughn's review

dark emotional sad tense 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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Death of parent

shyanned's review

adventurous dark hopeful reflective tense 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

4.5

Great book- couldn’t put it down. Fast paced and interesting. Leave your morals at the door

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

alaynacp's review

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

I’m not sure how I feel about this book. I only read it because of BookTok. It was interesting to say the least. 

A lot of things bothered me such as the very toxic relationships she has with all of them. I wasn’t too fond of her relationship with Jake. I’m still not sure why she was in love with Kaleb. Especially after he treated her the way he did. I didn’t enjoy the small amount of sexual violence. The spicy parts were very well written but I didn’t enjoy the actual story it was telling. To be honest, I’m not actually sure what the story was supposed to be about other than this young girl and her reverse haram.

All that being said, I think if you love dark romance, this is the perfect book for you. Others, proceed at your own risk.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Child abuse, Confinement, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, and Pregnancy

jetta_reads's review

dark emotional 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

3.0

unbelievably mad that she ended up with who she did. wanted a different ending

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, and Sexual harassment

kiittycatt's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Drug abuse, Incest, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

slippyclark's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Good book, but there was some weird parts to get through. 

The end felt a bit rushed. 

If you aren't into age gap, or family affairs,  this is not the book for you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

bookedwithlex's review

2.0

honestly had to push through reading this only because I knew how it ended and I needed to know how it happened. the ending isn't really worth the trauma those books caused me. 

page 1 to 200 : nothing really happens. Tiernan learns how to live on a farm and tending to a household in the middle of nowhere in winter. [barn keeping, hunting, fishing, etc] 

200 to 350 : hell breaks loose. literally. a fire, some sexual content [bordeline assault tbh], fights, anger issues, isolation for long period of time. 

350 to 470 : we learn what happened to Kaleb and why he's the way he is. Jake finds the person he needs and Noah realizes racing his the love of his life. 

the 2 last chapters are cute but do not counter balance the darkness in the rest of the book. 

the first 200 pages were useless, my friend who was reading the book picked up where I was so we could read together and she said that she understood everything. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Incest, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Physical abuse