They never speak to each other, Kaleb isn't even in like half the book, he rapes her like it's going out of fashion. Simply, the heroine has sex with three men, and then arbitrarily decides to fall in love with one of them over the other. HE SPITS ON HER, he slaps her, he throws food at her. But he doesn't give a crap about the heroine. If the author balanced this by showing us moments where he CARED about the heroine, I could have possibly tolerated it I have a high threshold for dark heroes. He doesn't speak because of a 'childhood trauma', he does nothing but rape the heroine until she's convinced she likes it, and finally throws her birth control pills into the bin.

Just trust me on this, as someone who usually 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. Just take my word for it that the relationship dynamics are handled badly and illogically.

I just don't understand it, but I can't really explain. But then at random moments, the lust comes back. well, it's hard to describe, but the moment she's finished having sex with Jake or Noah, all the lust that the author has spent ages building up fizzles out of her. The girl (Tiernan) has sex with her step-uncle Jake first, then step-cousin Noah, then other step-cousin Kaleb. ❌ The relationships were not handled well AT ALL. Girl spends winter hopping from one of their beds to the other, before 'falling in love' with the one who's a psycho. Girl is placed under care of her father's stepbrother, who lives in the mountains of Colorado with his two sons. *Credence is a new adult standalone novel suitable for readers 18+. She also realizes that lines blur and rules become easy to break when no one else is watching. 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. 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.

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. But has anything really changed? She’s always been alone, hasn’t she? The shadow of her parents’ fame followed her everywhere.Īnd when they suddenly pass away, she knows she should be devastated. 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 only child of a film producer and his starlet wife, she’s grown up with wealth and privilege but not love or guidance. Tiernan de Haas doesn’t care about anything anymore.

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