Who wrote this blatantly fawning and dishonest article? Was it a brother of Fitzpatrick, perhaps (if she has a brother)?
/When Nora Grey is forced to be partners with the mysterious and gorgeous/
You know, maybe it’s because I was reading ZeldaQueen’s sporkings and not the actual text alone, but I never got the sense that Patch was ‘mysterious and gorgeous.’ Mysterious: no, it was very easy to see that he was a sleazy creep, no mystery there. Gorgeous: well, maybe if I hadn’t been distracted by the fact that he was SEXUALLY HARASSING Nora, then maybe I could’ve seen how ‘cute’ he was.
/you do know that Heathcliff wasn't supposed to be adored, don't you?/
To be fair, some “Wuthering Heights” fangirls haven’t figured that out, either.
/the titular character of The Sheik regretted what he did to Diana Mayo!/
Ugh, “The Sheik.” *shudders* I remember hearing about that misogynistic, utterly Orientalist trash.
/The kid who tried to kill two innocent people to get what he wanted and abuses his girlfriend and mindraped poor Jules into being his slave for an eternity. He once held a high position of power in Heaven./
Well, to be fair, so did Lucifer.
/Nora’s friendship with her best friend Vee is also important./
Important, HOW? Do those two EVER talk about something that isn’t related to men? Do they ever share genuine moments of friendship and caring? No, Vee is only a plot device to get Nora with Patch. That’s it.
/Their friendship makes a refreshing change from some of the trends in teen books, in which mean girls and friendships are abandoned once romance is pursued./
*explodes* NO, IT DOESN’T! Stop lying! Their friendship IS abandoned whenever romance comes into the picture! Whenever Nora tells Vee about her justified fears and concerns, Vee just brushes her off because “she’s got a date with Jules,” “Patch is so hot,” etc.! There is no genuine friendship in this book. As for ‘mean girls,’ what about poor Marcie?
/I think you either love [Vee] or hate her,’ Fitzpatrick says, ‘but she does remind me of a very authentic sixteen-year-old girl. She’s happy with who she is. She’s obnoxious, but at the same time she does look out for Nora. I love her character./
Ms. Fitzpatrick…you really need to get out more. First of all, like ZeldaQueen said, it’s insulting that you would think that an utterly selfish, obnoxious, and stupid waste of flesh like Vee is an “authentic sixteen-year-old girl.” Second of all, WHEN does she ever look out for Nora? All she does is get Nora INTO trouble, not out of it! She pushes Nora towards the dangerous stalker, she tells Nora to pick her up from a dangerous neighborhood, she drags Nora into her harebrained schemes, she ignores Nora whenever she brings up her worries - how is she a good friend? And as for loving her character, well, you’re the same idiot who thinks that Patch is the greatest thing ever. I shouldn’t be surprised.
/they’ll be eager to find out how Nora and Patch reach their happy ending./
*flatly* Oh, yes, I'm so eager to find out how the unrepentant, abusive sexual predator and his victim will live happily ever after.
As for the idiotic Fitzpatrick and the article as a whole?
I don't think Fitzpatrick has a brother. I've seen plenty of her fans do just as much fawning, so it probably is another person who takes her word for everything in the book.
I noticed that as well. Patch gets generic descriptions about how he's so Mediterranean-looking and has great abs, but if it weren't for the teenage model on the front cover, I'd have no visual image in my head.
"Well, to be fair, so did Lucifer."
I know, and I find it simultaneously repulsive and hilarious that Fitzpatrick wrote the "romantic hero" of the story as being identical to Lucifer, in terms of behavior and goal. Like I said though, the angels keep giving Patch second chances and trying to get him to work for them again. They kicked Lucifer directly into Hell. Why don't they send *Patch* there?
Do you want to know the worst part about Vee? She doesn't LEARN from it! I kid you not, the last we hear of her in Crescendo, Nora has just gotten home from her next kidnapping/ attempted murder and there's a message on the answering machine, with Vee bitching about how Nora isn't around and how she (Vee) is going to be pissed if she misses something interesting going on. Apparently Vee has completely forgotten the climax of Hush, Hush by that point, because that's the only way I could figure her not being concerned by her friend DISAPPEARING.
"*flatly* Oh, yes, I'm so eager to find out how the unrepentant, abusive sexual predator and his victim will live happily ever after."
So well said! Mind if I quote you there at the end of my Crescendo sporking?
/I don't think Fitzpatrick has a brother. I've seen plenty of her fans do just as much fawning, so it probably is another person who takes her word for everything in the book./
Oh, I know, I was just alluding to Stephenie Meyer’s brother as a joke.
/Patch gets generic descriptions about how he's so Mediterranean-looking and has great abs/
Ugh, I suppose that I should be grateful that his surname is Italian and not Greek (and thus Winki Pop has more right to be offended than I am), but yes, way to describe your abusive stalker, Ms. Fitzpatrick. He has a muscular chest and "looks Mediterranean." Gee, I’ve only heard that description in a hundred Harlequin romance novels.
/They kicked Lucifer directly into Hell. Why don't they send *Patch* there?/
Because Patch is the hero and the Designated Love Interest, remember? He could make Lucifer look like the Virgin Mary in comparison and he’d still be praised and glorified and worshipped to no end because he is Fitzpatrick’s “ultimate bad boy” and he *deserves* to get what he wants, darn it!
/the last we hear of her in Crescendo, Nora has just gotten home from her next kidnapping/ attempted murder and there's a message on the answering machine, with Vee bitching about how Nora isn't around and how she (Vee) is going to be pissed if she misses something interesting going on. Apparently Vee has completely forgotten the climax of Hush, Hush by that point, because that's the only way I could figure her not being concerned by her friend DISAPPEARING./
Patch has the power to manipulate minds; does he also have the power to wipe them? That could explain why Vee is so unbelievably stupid and oblivious.
/So well said! Mind if I quote you there at the end of my Crescendo sporking?/
Not to mention how it racks up on the unfortunate implications. Of course it's the dark and chiseled bad boy who seduces the pretty, sheltered, naive white girl and teaches her to have a good time. >_< I'd think Fitzpatrick was making a reference of some sort to the fact that the Judeo-Christian-Islamic faiths, which of course were the source of fallen angel mythology, came from the Middle East, except that Patch is never described like that and I think he's the only one who's all tall and dark-like.
Ah yes, how silly of me to forget. -_-; Just like how the Volturi are so dangerous, but of course they'd *never* rip Edward into postage stamp-sized pieces, oh dear me no!
I don't think he does, no. So far as I can tell, Vee's just really stupid. All though according to the TV Tropes page, in the third book, Vee Does Not Like Men because of what happened to Nora, so perhaps she actually learns something by then?
/When Nora Grey is forced to be partners with the mysterious and gorgeous/
You know, maybe it’s because I was reading ZeldaQueen’s sporkings and not the actual text alone, but I never got the sense that Patch was ‘mysterious and gorgeous.’ Mysterious: no, it was very easy to see that he was a sleazy creep, no mystery there. Gorgeous: well, maybe if I hadn’t been distracted by the fact that he was SEXUALLY HARASSING Nora, then maybe I could’ve seen how ‘cute’ he was.
/you do know that Heathcliff wasn't supposed to be adored, don't you?/
To be fair, some “Wuthering Heights” fangirls haven’t figured that out, either.
/the titular character of The Sheik regretted what he did to Diana Mayo!/
Ugh, “The Sheik.” *shudders* I remember hearing about that misogynistic, utterly Orientalist trash.
/The kid who tried to kill two innocent people to get what he wanted and abuses his girlfriend and mindraped poor Jules into being his slave for an eternity. He once held a high position of power in Heaven./
Well, to be fair, so did Lucifer.
/Nora’s friendship with her best friend Vee is also important./
Important, HOW? Do those two EVER talk about something that isn’t related to men? Do they ever share genuine moments of friendship and caring? No, Vee is only a plot device to get Nora with Patch. That’s it.
/Their friendship makes a refreshing change from some of the trends in teen books, in which mean girls and friendships are abandoned once romance is pursued./
*explodes* NO, IT DOESN’T! Stop lying! Their friendship IS abandoned whenever romance comes into the picture! Whenever Nora tells Vee about her justified fears and concerns, Vee just brushes her off because “she’s got a date with Jules,” “Patch is so hot,” etc.! There is no genuine friendship in this book. As for ‘mean girls,’ what about poor Marcie?
/I think you either love [Vee] or hate her,’ Fitzpatrick says, ‘but she does remind me of a very authentic sixteen-year-old girl. She’s happy with who she is. She’s obnoxious, but at the same time she does look out for Nora. I love her character./
Ms. Fitzpatrick…you really need to get out more. First of all, like ZeldaQueen said, it’s insulting that you would think that an utterly selfish, obnoxious, and stupid waste of flesh like Vee is an “authentic sixteen-year-old girl.” Second of all, WHEN does she ever look out for Nora? All she does is get Nora INTO trouble, not out of it! She pushes Nora towards the dangerous stalker, she tells Nora to pick her up from a dangerous neighborhood, she drags Nora into her harebrained schemes, she ignores Nora whenever she brings up her worries - how is she a good friend? And as for loving her character, well, you’re the same idiot who thinks that Patch is the greatest thing ever. I shouldn’t be surprised.
/they’ll be eager to find out how Nora and Patch reach their happy ending./
*flatly* Oh, yes, I'm so eager to find out how the unrepentant, abusive sexual predator and his victim will live happily ever after.
As for the idiotic Fitzpatrick and the article as a whole?
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I noticed that as well. Patch gets generic descriptions about how he's so Mediterranean-looking and has great abs, but if it weren't for the teenage model on the front cover, I'd have no visual image in my head.
"Well, to be fair, so did Lucifer."
I know, and I find it simultaneously repulsive and hilarious that Fitzpatrick wrote the "romantic hero" of the story as being identical to Lucifer, in terms of behavior and goal. Like I said though, the angels keep giving Patch second chances and trying to get him to work for them again. They kicked Lucifer directly into Hell. Why don't they send *Patch* there?
Do you want to know the worst part about Vee? She doesn't LEARN from it! I kid you not, the last we hear of her in Crescendo, Nora has just gotten home from her next kidnapping/ attempted murder and there's a message on the answering machine, with Vee bitching about how Nora isn't around and how she (Vee) is going to be pissed if she misses something interesting going on. Apparently Vee has completely forgotten the climax of Hush, Hush by that point, because that's the only way I could figure her not being concerned by her friend DISAPPEARING.
"*flatly* Oh, yes, I'm so eager to find out how the unrepentant, abusive sexual predator and his victim will live happily ever after."
So well said! Mind if I quote you there at the end of my Crescendo sporking?
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Oh, I know, I was just alluding to Stephenie Meyer’s brother as a joke.
/Patch gets generic descriptions about how he's so Mediterranean-looking and has great abs/
Ugh, I suppose that I should be grateful that his surname is Italian and not Greek (and thus Winki Pop has more right to be offended than I am), but yes, way to describe your abusive stalker, Ms. Fitzpatrick. He has a muscular chest and "looks Mediterranean." Gee, I’ve only heard that description in a hundred Harlequin romance novels.
/They kicked Lucifer directly into Hell. Why don't they send *Patch* there?/
Because Patch is the hero and the Designated Love Interest, remember? He could make Lucifer look like the Virgin Mary in comparison and he’d still be praised and glorified and worshipped to no end because he is Fitzpatrick’s “ultimate bad boy” and he *deserves* to get what he wants, darn it!
/the last we hear of her in Crescendo, Nora has just gotten home from her next kidnapping/ attempted murder and there's a message on the answering machine, with Vee bitching about how Nora isn't around and how she (Vee) is going to be pissed if she misses something interesting going on. Apparently Vee has completely forgotten the climax of Hush, Hush by that point, because that's the only way I could figure her not being concerned by her friend DISAPPEARING./
Patch has the power to manipulate minds; does he also have the power to wipe them? That could explain why Vee is so unbelievably stupid and oblivious.
/So well said! Mind if I quote you there at the end of my Crescendo sporking?/
Sure, go ahead! ^^
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Not to mention how it racks up on the unfortunate implications. Of course it's the dark and chiseled bad boy who seduces the pretty, sheltered, naive white girl and teaches her to have a good time. >_< I'd think Fitzpatrick was making a reference of some sort to the fact that the Judeo-Christian-Islamic faiths, which of course were the source of fallen angel mythology, came from the Middle East, except that Patch is never described like that and I think he's the only one who's all tall and dark-like.
Ah yes, how silly of me to forget. -_-; Just like how the Volturi are so dangerous, but of course they'd *never* rip Edward into postage stamp-sized pieces, oh dear me no!
I don't think he does, no. So far as I can tell, Vee's just really stupid. All though according to the TV Tropes page, in the third book, Vee Does Not Like Men because of what happened to Nora, so perhaps she actually learns something by then?
Woot! Thanks! :D
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