Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

Credence by Penelope Douglas

81 reviews

finnickdeservedbetter's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad 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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Misogyny

Moderate: Blood, Confinement, Pedophilia, Sexual harassment, Violence, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse

Minor: Abandonment, Child abuse, Animal death, Death of parent, Cancer, Gun violence, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Terminal illness

Yeah, I'll be honest...the LI is

an abusive rapist

who's unlikable in ever single way. "He

raped

you? Well boo hoo, his mommy didn't love him enough." I like dark and sometimes taboo romance but not the glamorization and romanticization of SA and domestic abuse. This honestly should have just been a dnf but I wanted to give it a full review with a star rating. The .5 is honestly just for the cabin and horses at this point. I was recommended Birthday Girl and this by a friend (I know you're reading this Kenzie) and liked BG a lot so I thought I would like this too. No. Just no. It wasn't even the

full on incest

that bothered me. The problem was the gigantic bag of skid marked gym socks called "Kaleb". He can chew rocks.

stuckinth3crowdz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

1.5

[This is an updated review, also minor spoliers]

 It's been a few months since reading Creadence and well all I have to say is this is one of my least favorite books. And I don't mean any harm to Penelope their work is pretty tremendous but Credence had absolutely no plot as the book kept going. And it's also disturbing to think about how the main guys knew they were taking in the mc as their niece/cousin (step; they're not blood-related) and it's just so weird because that doesn't stop them from caring about sexual relations with her. And another thing is how one of the main guys practically almost r*ped the mc. And another this worth mentioning is the age gap... the mc freshly turned 18 when she's with the guys while one is in their 40s-50s and the other two are in their 20s. And with me saying all this I don't want to keep people from reading it, if you want to read it go ahead I'm not writing this review to stop you I just wanted to write this a little more in-depth so that for people that do read reviews before reading a book have more of an idea with what they're getting into when reading Credence. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Grief, Incest, Rape, Suicide, Death of parent, and Sexual assault

nelabella's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent

ninabyna's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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? No

3.5

Not a fan of non-consent if not yet established if the character enjoys that

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Misogyny

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Blood, and Medical trauma

readiac1999's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

I honestly have a lot of mixed opinions on this book. I think that I couldn't get behind the "forbidden love" aspects and would definitely recommend looking up trigger warnings because I sure didn't and regret that a bit. Picked up because of BookTok recommendation and because it was on Kindle Unlimited. The writing was good but I think the relationships between the characters just weren't for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Sexual assault, Fire/Fire injury, Adult/minor relationship, and Misogyny

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Cancer, Blood, Pregnancy, Drug abuse, Death of parent, and Confinement

eepi's review against another edition

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

0.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual violence, Self harm, Suicide, Sexual harassment, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Rape, Pedophilia, Incest, and Sexual content

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Abandonment, and Bullying

Minor: Death of parent, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Stalking

riella_reads's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Bullying, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

whrohala's review against another edition

challenging dark tense 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? Yes

2.0

To be honest, I was disappointed by this book. It was really hyped up by booktok, but then didn't deliver on its promise. #1 offense: not actually reverse harem in my opinion. Just a FMC with multiple partners, who is brutally shamed for that fact by 2 out of 3 of them. There were some moments where the shaming was so over the top, and the FMC just accepted it, that I felt like this book was more of a way for the author to express their internalized slut-shaming more than anything else. 

The female MC ends up with the man who nearly rapes her TWICE, hits her across the face for being "hysterical" while getting stitches in a kitchen with no pain meds or anesthetic, and attacts and spits in her face when she sleeps with someone other than him, in addition to many other things. In my opinion, that speaks volumes to how this author views her female characters.

Only reason it isn't getting a 1 is because the quality of writing was good overall, despite what the plot lacked. And it delivered on the spice, though more of a slow burn than advertised. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Misogyny, Mental illness, Grief, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Child abuse, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Drug use, Incest, Infidelity, and Sexual assault

_lotti____'s review against another edition

challenging sad tense slow-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: Rape and Child abuse

Moderate: Sexism

Minor: Misogyny and Grief

michele_reads's review against another edition

dark 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? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Misogyny, Sexual content, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Abandonment, Death of parent, and Suicide