Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Credence by Penelope Douglas

121 reviews

booknerdcoco's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark mysterious 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

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Quite a challenging read.  Not so much because of the step family vibe, but more because of a young lady who was quite impressionable and ending up in the situation she was in. Very sad beginning. But the ending was quite sweet.  Don't get what everyone sees in Uncle Jake, I was rooting for Noah.

Book boyfriend:
Jake 2/5
Noah 4/5
Caleb 3/5

Spice: 5/5 🥵 
Plot: 3/5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent

Minor: Bullying, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail

luunacy's review against another edition

2.5

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The taboo nature was a little excitimg at first and there was a lot of good spice, but ultimately it became disturbing to me as they all became possessive.

I was so upset when Noah showed up on the beach in LA. These men are so entitled and felt so much ownership of Tiernan they couldn't let her live her own life.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Medical trauma, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail

booksalacarte's review against another edition

1.0

dark sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Credence- 1⭐️ 5🌶️

Contemporary Romance

Taboo Romance

Multi POV 

Small town

Polyamorous FMC

Tw: suicide, parental death, SA, Rape, emotional abuse, physical abuse, pedophilia, predatory behavior, grooming a minor

The start of this book is interesting. A 17yo, raised by her parent’s assistant, looses her narcissist parents to suicide and goes to live with her step uncle in the middle of nowhere… but then the FMC turns 18 and things take a turn that I knew was coming, but by the end I felt like I was reading a train wreck I wanted to just finish and be done with. I think the setting was the only thing I enjoyed about the story. The rest just was a giant red flag. I think I kept reading because I was interested in how the situation could be sustainable enough to be considered a happily ever after.

This… was not the book for me. I don’t enjoy reading about the romantic couples abusing each other. I don’t consider that romance.

All of the characters were sad and depressing. There wasn’t a single person in this book that knew what joy or contentment looked like. Every single person in this book needed interventional therapy. The men were all misogynistic and gross. And once they had their “turn” they basically disappear from the plot . How? What? 

The POV shifts were fine, but the 1 POV from the MMC (who is barely in the book other than SA/R scenes) was written to make his internal monologue sound like an absolute psychopath. 

 This was definitely a “taboo romance”. Although there was not really anything romantic about it. The girl sleeps with her step-uncle and step-cousins, who are supposed to be alpha males, but didn’t get possessive when it came to their own family. Nope. The spice was very disjointed and flipped on and off like a switch. It read more like Stockholm syndrome. The only character that showed her any type of romance was her pedophile step-uncle. 

As if it could get any worse, it was over written. There is more than enough plot with the step-family…. Absolutely no other plot tools were needed to add to the drama. 

Thank you NetGalley and Berkeley Publishing Group for the Advanced eReader Copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

potalian's review against another edition

3.75

medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent

Moderate: Animal death, Cursing, Infidelity, Violence, Blood, Grief, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse, Confinement, Drug abuse

laurakwiecinski's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Death, Death of parent

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

meat_muffin's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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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, Injury/Injury detail

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

Minor: Cancer

emmacartlidge's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Gun violence, Incest, Rape, Violence, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment

Minor: Blood, Injury/Injury detail

k_urugly's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional funny tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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omg this book is my new favorite!! the character development is just mind blowing its so good and the smut🤭 like holy shit its so good! if u like dark romance u need to read this!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Abandonment

ajinxe's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Incest, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Grief, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

eoderkirk's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Strong character development: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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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, Sexual harassment

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

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