Credence – Penelope Douglas

13th January 2020

Tiernan de Haas doesn’t care about anything anymore. The only child of a film producer and his starlet wife, she’s grown up with wealth and privilege but not love or guidance. Shipped off to boarding schools from an early age, it was still impossible to escape the loneliness and carve out a life of her own. The shadow of her parents’ fame followed her everywhere.

And when they suddenly pass away, she knows she should be devastated. But has anything really changed? She’s always been alone, hasn’t she?

Jake Van der Berg, her father’s stepbrother and her only living relative, assumes guardianship of Tiernan who is still two months shy of eighteen. Sent to live with him and his two sons, Noah and Kaleb, in the mountains of Colorado, Tiernan soon learns that these men now have a say in what she chooses to care and not care about anymore. As the three of them take her under their wing, teach her to work and survive in the remote woods far away from the rest of the world, she slowly finds her place among them.

And as a part of them.

She also realizes that lines blur and rules become easy to break when no one else is watching.

One of them has her.

The other one wants her.

But he…

He’s going to keep her.
What the actual HELL did I just read ? ? ? ?

Girl ’ s parents entrust suicide. Girl is placed under worry of her don ’ mho stepbrother, who lives in the mountains of Colorado with his two sons. Girl spends winter hopping from one of their beds to the other, before ‘ falling in love ’ with the one who ’ s a psychotic .
HERE’S WHY NONE OF THIS WORKED FOR ME:
❌ The relationships were not handled good AT ALL. The girlfriend ( Tiernan ) has arouse with her step-uncle Jake first, then step-cousin Noah, then early step-cousin Kaleb. It ’ sulfur just… well, it ’ sulfur unvoiced to describe, but the moment she ’ sulfur finished having sex with Jake or Noah, all the lecherousness that the author has spent ages building up fizzles out of her. It ’ s in truth eldritch. But then at random moments, the lust comes spinal column. I don ’ thyroxine understand it, but I can ’ t in truth explain. Just take my parole for it that the relationship dynamics are handled badly and illogically .
❌ Kaleb is a goddamned psychopath. Just trust me on this, as person who normally loves psychopathic heroes ( I gave 5 stars to The Silver Devil and I like Addison Cain, for f*ck ’ s sake ) he leaves them in the dust. He doesn ’ triiodothyronine speak because of a ‘ childhood trauma ’, he does nothing but rape the heroine until she ’ mho convinced she likes it, and ultimately throws her parturition operate pills into the bank identification number. If the writer balanced this by showing us moments where he CARED about the heroine, I could have possibly tolerated it ; I have a high doorway for dark heroes. But he doesn ’ t give a bullshit about the heroine. HE SPITS ON HER, he slaps her, he throws food at her… Bloody hell .
❌ The ‘ love ’ in this book is a jest. Simply, the heroine has arouse with three men, and then randomly decides to fall in love with one of them over the other. That ’ s it. There ’ s no deeper reason. They never speak to each other, Kaleb isn ’ triiodothyronine even in like half the script, he rapes her like it ’ sulfur going out of fashion… even when we get a chapter from his position, it ’ sulfur discernible he feels nothing for the heroine besides a obscure physical matter to in her. THERE IS zero BASIS for their love and this book is not a romance.
❌ I have to say, I can ’ deoxythymidine monophosphate blame the heroine excessively much, because Tiernan is clearly suffering from intense mental disturbances and she honestly just needs professional help. It ’ s not her defect – her parents never paid any attention to her. So of course, abruptly three attractive men are displaying concern in her, and she mistakes the Stockholm-esque nature of her feelings for Kaleb for love.

❌ This book is MISOGYNISTIC AS F*CK. It ’ s all about every male in the book having an dateless provide of slutty women while they pull a shotgun on a guy flirting with the heroine ( whom obviously, the author makes into a villain. then there international relations and security network ’ triiodothyronine even any substantial option for the heroine ). Tiernan thinks about telling the men how hypocritical they are, then sort of just forgets all about it. I wanted to reach into this book and strangle every male character in it .
❌ There ’ s a plot-line about Kaleb possibly getting an OW pregnant. As if this dumpster fire of a book wasn ’ thyroxine bad adequate .
Think I ’ thousand going to stop there, but I ’ ve read and disliked Penelope Douglas ’ s heroes before so I very should never have put myself through this anguish. Stay the hell away .

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