Credence

From New York Times bestselling author, Penelope Douglas, comes a new standalone!Three of them, one of her, and a remote cabin in the woods. Let the hot, winter nights ensue...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.*Credence is a full length, stand-alone romance suitable for readers 18+.
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Sooo good! Loveee!!! Kaleb!!!
Everyone has their thing.
Everyone has their fetishes.
I don't shame because I have some weird quirks myself. I read some very questionable books. I love extreme horror; I get off on the dirtiest, raunchiest smut; and I thrive for a good mind-fuck psychological thriller.
With that being said, Credence left me feeling icky inside. Not a good icky, either. I don't mind a good romance. Taboo romance is the best, but there's a difference for me to read sex being used as an allegory for love. The graphic scenes in Credence is what I went in for, but the plot is what threw me off. Not so much because of the border of incest, but because the story tells us that sex equals love. Jake shows how much he loves his step-niece, Tiernan, by taking her virginity. Then, Noah and Kaleb show how much they love Tiernan (her step-cousins) by having a threesome with her. Not sure if that would be considered incest since the boys don't touch each other, but they do screw the same girl at the same time. The only one that loves Tiernan outside of the family dynamic is Kaleb.
I would've enjoyed the novel much more if Ms. Douglass had left out the love element through sexual interactions. Want this teenage girl to screw her family? Fine, but leave love out of it. If this was focused solely on Tiernan's and Kaleb's eventual relationship through sex-and they have some pretty rough scenes together-I would have rated it higher.
Everyone has their fetishes.
I don't shame because I have some weird quirks myself. I read some very questionable books. I love extreme horror; I get off on the dirtiest, raunchiest smut; and I thrive for a good mind-fuck psychological thriller.
With that being said, Credence left me feeling icky inside. Not a good icky, either. I don't mind a good romance. Taboo romance is the best, but there's a difference for me to read sex being used as an allegory for love. The graphic scenes in Credence is what I went in for, but the plot is what threw me off. Not so much because of the border of incest, but because the story tells us that sex equals love. Jake shows how much he loves his step-niece, Tiernan, by taking her virginity. Then, Noah and Kaleb show how much they love Tiernan (her step-cousins) by having a threesome with her. Not sure if that would be considered incest since the boys don't touch each other, but they do screw the same girl at the same time. The only one that loves Tiernan outside of the family dynamic is Kaleb.
I would've enjoyed the novel much more if Ms. Douglass had left out the love element through sexual interactions. Want this teenage girl to screw her family? Fine, but leave love out of it. If this was focused solely on Tiernan's and Kaleb's eventual relationship through sex-and they have some pretty rough scenes together-I would have rated it higher.
My favorite book of all time would definitely sell my soul to re-read it for the first time again
this was insanely good. I did not see it going the way it did but I loved it anyway. the plot had me hooked from the beginning.
So good, want to reread all the time
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