Tuesday 11 June 2024

Review - Credence by Penelope Douglas

The Book
Release Date: 13 Jan 2020

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+.

My Review    3 STARS 
After so much hype i finally found time to read this book.  Not sure what all the hype is for though to be honest.

There would be a lot of triggers in this book for those not used to reading darker material.

Tiernan is a 17 years old girl who has just lost her parents.  Not that they were much of parents to her.  She is contacted by her late fathers step-brother, a man she has never met or knows and she decides that it would be good to get out of town and go visit him and his two sons.

Jake lives in Colorado on a mountain with Noah and Caleb.  Both of the both are so different from each other and each member of the family manages to bring out different emotions in her, making her wake up from her very quiet and shelters life with very little love.

Her Tiernan comes to know who she is, on her own voyage of discovery, especially once she hits 18.

With the relationship triangle we get a lot of angst, a family still managing to stick together and Tiernan finally figuring out what and who she wants.

It was a good read, i'm just not sure it was worth all the hype. 

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