Hush, Hush, Beautiful Creatures, Housekeepers?
Originally published at biblio+chic. Please leave any comments there.
Over the past two days I finished reading Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick and Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. What did these two books have in common? The main characters had housekeepers! OK, that’s a weird thing to point out, I know, but once I started reading Hush, Hush I thought to myself, who has housekeepers these days? Is this something common? I live near a city in the Midwest, so perhaps this is a southern thing, but really? Really?
That’s not to say I didn’t thoroughly enjoy the housekeepers in both of these stories, especially Amma in Beautiful Creatures! I wanted an Amma all of my own! Dorothea, the housekeeper in Hush, Hush wasn’t really around much, but she seemed like a great lady. But back to Amma, the coolest housekeeper of all time. I mean, the woman was some sort of tarot-card reading wisewoman. As I read, I pictured her as Dr. Miranda Bailey from Grey’s Anatomy. Short and adorable, but tough and powerful.
Amma?
I can’t remember if she was actually described in the novel, but she’ll always be Miranda Bailey to me! I’m anxiously awaiting Beautiful Darkness to see what’s up with Lena and Ethan after the events in the first book!
But back to Hush, Hush! I get that Patch is hot, bad-boy, super-muscular, dripping with desire, steamy hot. But then I see his name and it’s like someone popped the Elmo balloon I got for my birthday. Patch-what should be a cute nickname continuously reminds me of Patch Adams, that movie with Robin Williams as a doctor that liked to dress as a clown. Very un-hot. So I’m having trouble creating this mental image of Patch, but hopefully once we discover his real name I can rectify that situation.
So, those are a few random thoughts I had on those two books. I didn’t really feel like writing any more reviews this week, but I did want to share these two, as well as how awesome I thought they were!
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