Hush, hush - Becca Fitzpatrick
Oh, the HORROR.
I still can't wrap my head around the book. How did it get 4 stars on Goodreads? Seriously? Did I read the same book as everybody else?, because if I did, this is shit! These YA books keep getting worse and worse. And, when I was about to finish it, it kept reminding me so much of "Fifty shades of Grey" and I thought "it's bad enough this is a sort of Twilight rip off for it to have Fifty shades stuff too... or wait a moment. Could it be E. L. James' book was after this" I did my research and fair enough, "Hush, hush" was first.
Ok, let's get the basics going. Nora, your average high school student with persecution complex and clearly undiagnosed schizophrenia. Patch is your average douche, sexual harasser , and why not, a fallen angel. Set up, biology class, with a coach that has a pedo bear seal of approval. What happens? he sits them together, starts talking about sex just like that and watches how Patch sexually harasses Nora and does nothing. (There's a description of a scene with two naked Barbie dolls and I though, man this teacher should not be teaching for sure... that or Biology classes sure have changed since I was in High School).
So... 30 pages in and I already want to bang my head against the wall.
The whole thing is just a mess of Nora's insecurities and fears (which I'll partially accept because someone really is out to get her... and yet, she doesn't die, she does and there are no more books). She trusts NO ONE in town, and all through the book, well, it seemed only Nora, her mother and Vee were human, because for the others, it they weren't insane fallen angels, angels about to go all satanic or Nephilim that I won't even want to get into, they were just plain insane.
Elliot is a freaking violent and aggressive student prepared to threaten everybody, Nora included. Jules is just a creep and remains a creep through the book. Miss Greene, well she's insane too.
Overall feeling. Someone please kill Nora and finish the damn book already.
No. I will NOT read the other two books. I don't enjoy torture through reading.
Where to begin? Let's tackle by character.
Nora. What the hell, girl? The woman is harassed by every single guy in the book (granted, there are only three guys, but still). Patch wants to kill her, then he changes his mind and wants to do her. Elliot wants to do her, then probably changes his mind due to loyalty for Jules and wants to kill her, Jules just wants to kill her, but he harasses her mentally in the process. And the girl, well, even though Patch is a complete douche and she should have gone to the police for a restraining order, falls in love with him. Of course, because there's nothing a teenage girl wants more than a possessive, hot, muscular and abusive boyfriend who forces on her all the freaking time and has no concept of personal space. So go ahead... let him kill you later on.
Elliot she doesn't trust, and yet the idiot goes to school knowing perfectly well he wants her dead. Way to go Nora! That's exactly how girls end up dead. As for Jules... fine, that came as a bit of a surprise, he did strike me as odd during the whole thing, and I even thought he could be the killer as well, but was my least probable option.
Then... Patch is the most irritating boy I've ever met, maybe safe for Christian Grey, he thinks that Nora saying "no" means "oh yes, come on, do me know!" I wanted to kill him, but alas, he's a fallen angel so no death for him. And then, he confesses he doesn't want to kill her, no he loves her. Is that how you love a girl, I really don't want you near. The guy is arrogant to no end, he knows everything (of course, he's a freaking angel, an insane one, but an angel nevertheless). He stalks and he doesn't talk about his "terrible, terrible" past until the very last moment. Oh yeah, I can't wait to get my hands on a boy like him. Please!
The whole persecution through the book was too much. Yes, it was fine that I never truly knew who wanted her dead until the revelation, but it was way too much to deal with it, and when we know it's really Jules, I didn't give a crap anymore. As well as I didn't give a crap if Nora or Vee died out of their own stupidity (seriously, the friend insisting on going out with Elliot after all Nora has said, doesn't she has the slightest self preservation instinct?) and I didn't care about Patch's story, or about Dabria being an angel. I didn't CARE ABOUT ANYTHING ANYMORE. I just wanted it to end.
And what is it with bad guys? He wants her dead. You pick up your damn gun and you shoot. No talking, no explaining evil plans. What for? I hate that.
The whole miss Green being an angel, I didn't buy a word of it! She's acting all psycho, explaining how low humans are with their petty emotions, one moment high in happiness and the next down in sadness. Honey, you're acting just the same? And no, angels don't do that, and if you were acting like that since Patch left you over a human girl, then honey, you can't blame it on your time down on Earth, you were insane long ago. Give me a decent angel book, girl, not one in which they act all loony.
Oh, and I was forgetting something, apparently Nora has Nephilim blood on her (the sons of fallen angels and humans... because having fallen angels is not enough of a mess), she can't do anything from it, no powers no nothing, but I guess that makes her not human also.
What I would've love by the end?... if it all had been in Nora's imagination and she was a mental patient, going in because of the delusions.But no... it was too much to ask I guess.
I still don't understand why girls love this stories. Why they love boys like Patch. Please YA authors, stop writing this shit, it's not healthy for young impressionable girls. Also, I've did some snooping around and found there are 4 books to this.
Hahahaha, good luck with that, I'll read the summary in Wikipedia and the snarky comments on Goodreads, just to know how this end.
But I'll give it a wild guess.
Happily ever after for Nora and Patch for sure.
I still can't wrap my head around the book. How did it get 4 stars on Goodreads? Seriously? Did I read the same book as everybody else?, because if I did, this is shit! These YA books keep getting worse and worse. And, when I was about to finish it, it kept reminding me so much of "Fifty shades of Grey" and I thought "it's bad enough this is a sort of Twilight rip off for it to have Fifty shades stuff too... or wait a moment. Could it be E. L. James' book was after this" I did my research and fair enough, "Hush, hush" was first.
Ok, let's get the basics going. Nora, your average high school student with persecution complex and clearly undiagnosed schizophrenia. Patch is your average douche, sexual harasser , and why not, a fallen angel. Set up, biology class, with a coach that has a pedo bear seal of approval. What happens? he sits them together, starts talking about sex just like that and watches how Patch sexually harasses Nora and does nothing. (There's a description of a scene with two naked Barbie dolls and I though, man this teacher should not be teaching for sure... that or Biology classes sure have changed since I was in High School).
So... 30 pages in and I already want to bang my head against the wall.
The whole thing is just a mess of Nora's insecurities and fears (which I'll partially accept because someone really is out to get her... and yet, she doesn't die, she does and there are no more books). She trusts NO ONE in town, and all through the book, well, it seemed only Nora, her mother and Vee were human, because for the others, it they weren't insane fallen angels, angels about to go all satanic or Nephilim that I won't even want to get into, they were just plain insane.
Elliot is a freaking violent and aggressive student prepared to threaten everybody, Nora included. Jules is just a creep and remains a creep through the book. Miss Greene, well she's insane too.
Overall feeling. Someone please kill Nora and finish the damn book already.
No. I will NOT read the other two books. I don't enjoy torture through reading.
Where to begin? Let's tackle by character.
Nora. What the hell, girl? The woman is harassed by every single guy in the book (granted, there are only three guys, but still). Patch wants to kill her, then he changes his mind and wants to do her. Elliot wants to do her, then probably changes his mind due to loyalty for Jules and wants to kill her, Jules just wants to kill her, but he harasses her mentally in the process. And the girl, well, even though Patch is a complete douche and she should have gone to the police for a restraining order, falls in love with him. Of course, because there's nothing a teenage girl wants more than a possessive, hot, muscular and abusive boyfriend who forces on her all the freaking time and has no concept of personal space. So go ahead... let him kill you later on.
Elliot she doesn't trust, and yet the idiot goes to school knowing perfectly well he wants her dead. Way to go Nora! That's exactly how girls end up dead. As for Jules... fine, that came as a bit of a surprise, he did strike me as odd during the whole thing, and I even thought he could be the killer as well, but was my least probable option.
Then... Patch is the most irritating boy I've ever met, maybe safe for Christian Grey, he thinks that Nora saying "no" means "oh yes, come on, do me know!" I wanted to kill him, but alas, he's a fallen angel so no death for him. And then, he confesses he doesn't want to kill her, no he loves her. Is that how you love a girl, I really don't want you near. The guy is arrogant to no end, he knows everything (of course, he's a freaking angel, an insane one, but an angel nevertheless). He stalks and he doesn't talk about his "terrible, terrible" past until the very last moment. Oh yeah, I can't wait to get my hands on a boy like him. Please!
The whole persecution through the book was too much. Yes, it was fine that I never truly knew who wanted her dead until the revelation, but it was way too much to deal with it, and when we know it's really Jules, I didn't give a crap anymore. As well as I didn't give a crap if Nora or Vee died out of their own stupidity (seriously, the friend insisting on going out with Elliot after all Nora has said, doesn't she has the slightest self preservation instinct?) and I didn't care about Patch's story, or about Dabria being an angel. I didn't CARE ABOUT ANYTHING ANYMORE. I just wanted it to end.
And what is it with bad guys? He wants her dead. You pick up your damn gun and you shoot. No talking, no explaining evil plans. What for? I hate that.
The whole miss Green being an angel, I didn't buy a word of it! She's acting all psycho, explaining how low humans are with their petty emotions, one moment high in happiness and the next down in sadness. Honey, you're acting just the same? And no, angels don't do that, and if you were acting like that since Patch left you over a human girl, then honey, you can't blame it on your time down on Earth, you were insane long ago. Give me a decent angel book, girl, not one in which they act all loony.
Oh, and I was forgetting something, apparently Nora has Nephilim blood on her (the sons of fallen angels and humans... because having fallen angels is not enough of a mess), she can't do anything from it, no powers no nothing, but I guess that makes her not human also.
What I would've love by the end?... if it all had been in Nora's imagination and she was a mental patient, going in because of the delusions.But no... it was too much to ask I guess.
I still don't understand why girls love this stories. Why they love boys like Patch. Please YA authors, stop writing this shit, it's not healthy for young impressionable girls. Also, I've did some snooping around and found there are 4 books to this.
Hahahaha, good luck with that, I'll read the summary in Wikipedia and the snarky comments on Goodreads, just to know how this end.
But I'll give it a wild guess.
Happily ever after for Nora and Patch for sure.