Anonymous #1 8w

there’s 400 pages and the plot has barely developed

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Anonymous OP 8w

Damn what book?

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Anonymous #1 8w

birthday girl

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Anonymous OP 8w

Oh…ew

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Anonymous OP 8w

Idk what you expected, it’s Penelope Douglas. The only plot she’s interested in is incest

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Anonymous #1 8w

i didn’t know she was controversial my b

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Anonymous OP 8w

Yeah, she writes incest and minor/adult relationships and grooming. Sorry I thought this was widely known

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Anonymous #1 8w

no, i don’t research authors. i just go to the library and if a book looks interesting i pick it up.

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Anonymous OP 8w

Ah, at least you got it from the library! I hope it ends up being good, I looked at the reviews and some of her haters actually said this book was fun.

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Anonymous OP 8w

While i didn’t read Credence, PD does NOT WRITE INCEST. It is definitely weird, given that the spice is with an 18 yr old and her dad’s stepbrother and two sons (her step uncle and step cousins), it is not incest. The only “minor/adult” relationship I can think of that she may have written is Damon and Winter from Devils night. He was 19 and she was 16 when they first got together but they met at 11 and 8. Not her biggest fan but she’s being wildly and dramatically misrepresented here.

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Anonymous #1 8w

i never buy books and j don’t like reading book reviews, it changes my perspective on the book before i can read it tbh

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Anonymous #2 8w

i was actually going to read credence but the whole uncle thing creeped me out even if it’s step uncle😭

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Anonymous OP 8w

And that is JUST FINE. That’s the same reason I won’t read it either. I just wanted you to know that you’ve got no reason to feel bad about reading PD. There’s no incest, no minor/adult relationships, and certainly no grooming, good lord. Not sure what the other commenter was referring to with that.

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Anonymous #2 8w

The mc of Credance is 17 for most of the book living with her step uncle who is technically her guardian who has disgusting sexual tension with her until she turns 18 and then they smash. It’s basically grooming and incest considering he’s her dad’s brother, it doesn’t matter if they’re related. They’re family and it’s fetishized.

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Anonymous #2 8w

I’m an ao3 reader so I get the “don’t like don’t read” thing but I’m not pretending it’s not basically grooming and incest. And preying upon a vulnerable person who doesn’t know it’s wrong. (Considering the mc is very socially and mentally stunted due to her abusive childhood)

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Anonymous #1 8w

Firstly, she HAD to be 17 to live with her step uncle. Otherwise she’d live on her own. So it wasn’t an underage romance choice, it was something that had to happen for the story to make sense. Hence, from what I’ve been told, why she turns 18 early in the book. I encourage you to read into actual grooming. Sexual tension, especially mutually expressed, is not grooming. And it being fetishized is the entire point of the taboo element I fear. None of those things are supposed to be normal.

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Anonymous #1 8w

And I’m not pretending either. I’m not even defending it because I think it’s weird, hence why I’m not reading it. But it’s literally not incest or grooming. And she isn’t vulnerable she is responsible for her actions. I’m not even encouraging “don’t like don’t read”. I’m telling OP not to have fear of that book or author because what you’re saying is more nuanced.

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Anonymous #2 8w

I was groomed at 16 and 17 I’m telling you, that this is absolutely grooming as she’s in a vulnerable position due to her neglect. It reads like grooming and I had the same mindset about my abuser.

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Anonymous #1 8w

Two things can be true at once. She can be in a vulnerable position and he manage to not take advantage of it. I’m not sure you’re looking at it objectively, and it’s okay if it’s triggering for your situation. But there were safeguards in place for the story to where it can pass for taboo. Weird, fetishized, and troublesome? Absolutely. Definitely immoral/wrong? That cannot be absolute. Especially there are people like you and like the FMC, who love that book and feel differently than you.

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Anonymous #1 8w

Oh you’re not gonna catch me saying it’s hot or a great time. Again, literally never read it and never will. I just got bored and went down a Reddit rabbit hole to get more info so I’m not talking out of my ass. And while taboo isn’t my particular poison, I don’t think the goal is ever to be morally right. I’m not sure there even are morally right taboo topics. It’s just not the point 😬

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Anonymous #2 8w

I just have a problem when people go out of their way to try to make what is going on in the story seem ok, or mass marketing the book to others. This stuff really shouldn’t be trendy or romanticized. I honestly think that some of it should be self published and stay that way, mass marketing it is kindof problematic. I personally know people who romanticize the content and it’s really hurtful and gross seeing people turn my actual worst nightmare and trauma into a trope

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Anonymous #1 8w

Omg that’s so real actually. When she was self-published it was definitely a smaller reach. I definitely don’t think ALL of her books should’ve gotten a deal where now literally anyone can grab one off the shelf but I’m not sure how all that works. 🤷🏽‍♀️

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Anonymous #2 8w

Yeah…I’m not sure if I like seeing wasp moms and teen girls reading Credance and talking about how hot it is…

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