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Credence by Penelope Douglas

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rebecaatm's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? Yes

3.5

In its own right, it’s a trip. And if you’re down for erotica, you should take the trip for sure. But I’m not a huge fan of the tip-toeing around the incest and underage vibes. My first read through, I almost DNFed because of being a mother and how I felt like I shouldn’t be enjoying it. But I did get over it and finish to say that I did it…. and then handed it off to my mom saying “wanna read something f’ed up?” 😂 (to which she responded “not like the book your sister just read” which was Dead Inside for context and I loudly said “oh god no, this is a spicy book”).

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casssch's review against another edition

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emotional funny tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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kxmjxxnx's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional relaxing 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

4.0

4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Credence is another Dark Romance novel by Penelope Douglas and once again, she managed to make me fall in love with the characters, the peak and the cabin, the atmosphere and the storyline.

She created a very calm and relaxing mood throughout the book, probably due to the snow and the winter vibes. The characters were complex, lovable and realistic with their own individual flaws, character traits and passions, which resulted in me instantly liking all of the Van der Bergs, Mirai and of course Tiernan.
The plot offered unexpected turns, thus creating suspense in just the right amount and the right moments within the story, so that it didn’t feel forced or rushed, but rather very natural for all of it to unfold the way it did.

Chapel Peak is a place I would love to stay at, if only it was real. It felt like a dreamy place, with small town vibes, as if it could be anywhere (given there are snowy mountains of course).

All in all, I have to admit that in the beginning it took me a while to get into the story, just because it wasn’t clear which of the guys was the main love interest for our Tiernan, which confused me quite a bit until the plot started to develop into a bit more.

Would definitely recommend this, especially to everyone who loves complicated characters with a lot of personality. And of course to everyone who loves dark romance.

“pain always reminds us that we’re alive. And the fear along with it that we want to stay that way.

“Credence. It means ‘belief as to the truth of something.’ ”

“ ‘It was time’, he said.”

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lizeylu's review against another edition

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dark

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

0.5

What the heck did I just read. Someone get me some bleach for my eyes. I have a real issue with dnfing books cause I have major fomo and think that maybe the book will get better and i don’t want to miss it but I was so wrong with this one.

I will say, for a “tiktok book” my expectations were low so i was pleasantly surprised with the actual writing. Sometimes with popular books it can feel like a teenager is writing it but this one wasn’t like that.

BUT the plot… yikes. I think it had potential for sure but there were too many red flags and just over all yikes.

FIRSTLY, this girl IS LITERALLY A CHILD. I ain’t trying to yuck the age gap yum but like seriously, she’s 17, get your 40year old self out of here. I don’t care if she was 18 when anything serious happened. You were flirting with a 17year old.

SECONDLY dark romance doesn’t mean no consent. Let me say it one more time. DARK ROMANCE DOESN’T EQUAL NO CONSENT. You can write dark romance with consent. Come on guys, this isn’t something you should play around with. This happened at least twice in this book and I seriously should have stopped reading there.

THIRDLY why are these men literal animals, they can’t last one day without having sex or “needing” sex. Get out of here. You are adult men you can keep it in your pants

FOURTHLY… YOU ARE LITERALLY RELATED YUCK EW STOP. this I could kind of put to the back of my mind cause they aren’t blood related but you can’t be talking like family and then turn around and make it sexual. On top of that, how do you just feel chill about your brother/dad/son is having sex with the same girl you are. Like what? No thoughts on how that is weird to you at all??

Overall, this girl was seriously taken advantage of, the men were not good men. Anyone would be seriously confused by the way each man was treating her. I was waiting for some sort of redeeming factor from the man she ends up “choosing” but really I don’t think the character development happened. Every person in this book needs some therapy.

The only thing I liked about this book is the living in a forest (slay farm vibe #cottagecore) and the mention of Amber run (an artist I like)

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velmad's review against another edition

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medium-paced

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

4.5

I want to know... WHO HURT YOU, PENELOPE DOUGLAS!

Fantastic book, while as taboo as they come. The underlying theme of grief and abandonment was compelling and emotional.

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