Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Credence by Penelope Douglas

56 reviews

maskihaan's review against another edition

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

3.75

ngl i’m in shock. like what did i just read and why tf did i find that so hot. help 😂

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Confinement, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Animal death, and Blood

ashqueenreads's review against another edition

dark 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

2.5

This book was like if someone asked “I wonder what would happen if there weren’t any social rules in the world” 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Grief

allymurphy's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

Had to come back to this review because I am still thinking about this book two years later and that deserves an extra star. it’s not a good book at all but I don’t really care

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Incest, Mental illness, and Violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, and Pregnancy

alireads's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Incest, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Bullying, Death of parent, Mental illness, and Suicide attempt

kendralyris's review against another edition

dark medium-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

1.5

I finished it, so there’s that. The writing is reasonable and the pacing is not bad, but it’s trauma porn and the mountain of content warnings are probably enough, like probably you can just read the content warnings and not miss anything significant. 

The main character is an underage girl already dealing with grief and trauma when her long lost family takes her in and proceeds to pass her around, sexually. The eventual love interest is the sexually depraved, mute, and traumatized cousin of the main character, the last of her three family members to have sex with her. There is very little redeeming about any of the characters and the MC’s arc can me summed up as Stockholm syndrome.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Ableism, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Torture, Adult/minor relationship, Gaslighting, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

northernbooknerd's review against another edition

emotional slow-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

I don’t know what the f**k that was…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, Incest, Pregnancy, Violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

saikox's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense 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

5.0

This really isn’t a book for everyone. It deals with some pretty messed up themes (mentioned in my content warnings) and it’s pure graphic smut in most of its chapters. 

Personally, not paying attention to the messed up, I genuinely enjoyed this book and most probably re-read it sometime. That ending has got to be the best happy ending I’ve ever read honestly and I LOVED it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, Death of parent, Grief, Alcohol, Cursing, Incest, Mental illness, and Sexual content

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Gun violence, and Violence

Minor: Blood, Drug abuse, and Pregnancy

angrybookworm's review against another edition

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

laura_rheads_too_much's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual violence

So while the relationships in this book aren’t technically incestuous they tread a fine line.

shubh_reads_constantly's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.0

3 stars 🌟🌟🌟. I am team Noah though. Kaleb can go rot in hell (or in prison) 🤬🤬🤬

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Suicide