Hush, Hush: Chapter 27

[zelda_queen]

ZeldaQueen: Alrighty everyone, nearly to the end of this baby! Let's keep swimming!

Comments

[chibi_regalli]

... Why is Jules here, again?

Seriously, why?

As for Patch, I continue wanting to burn him down.

[zelda_queen]

"... Why is Jules here, again?"

Give it a chapter or two. You'll see.

[illyriasacolyte]

I keep forgetting he even exists, seeing as how he never does anything and he only gets mentioned as an accessory to Elliot. Every time ZQ brings him up, I go "Who? Oh, yeah, Elliot's friend", and then promptly forget about him again. Fitzpatrick, there is a way to set up a Chekov's gun character. This is not it.

[chibi_regalli]

Yeah, that's... monumentally dumb. My high school was built in the 70s, and it still shows serious signs of aging. You know, like the classrooms not being big enough to handle population growth, or the air ventilation being so wildly erratic that there were noticeable temperature differences from hallway to hallway, or the fact that the sound system in the auditorium committed suicide during the dress rehearsals of our last show. An 1800s building? Well, for one thing, school wasn't mandatory at the time, so it wouldn't be nearly large enough, there'd be some serious trouble with A/C and heating, and anything other than a basic classroom probably wouldn't exist! Hell, my grandma went to a one-room schoolhouse back in the fifties, and you expect me to believe that this two-screen theater town would have a school, built in the NINETEENTH CENTURY, that could function as a modern high school without comment before now? I missed that before with all the Not Wanting and character idiocy, but that's just breaking the disbelief suspenders!

[anonymous]

To both this comment and the one above

[zelda_queen]

I understand if it was renovated, but we really get no details at all. Fitzatprick has a tendency to just throw things out because she thinks they sound cool, so I feel no desire to fill in the holes she left. Perhaps if all of my good will hadn't been burnt to a crisp after the motel room scene I'd be less bothered, but given that (and given how often she throws out nonsense in the sequels), it's just one more thing that annoys me. >_<

[carakasla]

I haven't decided on whether Lauren or Jules is more useless. It's a pretty tight race.

*cries* I JUST WANT A YA PARANORMAL NOVEL THAT HAS MAIN CHARACTERS THAT ARE NOT STUPID/CREEPY/DO NOT WANT/UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF ADULTS.

On a better note: I think my hand is going to fall off.

[zelda_queen]

You should read Aunt Maria/Black Maria (different names for the US and UK editions) by Diana Wayne Jones. In it, as soon as the mother of the protagonists is un-enchanted to realize everything that's going on, she becomes very helpful, very quickly.

[angel_renoir]

The current University of Washington was campus built in early 1900s, a lot of it are supposedly still the original buildings from a century ago, so I was willing to give the whole school-built-in-19th-century thing a slide. HOWEVER, maintenance of old buildings are expensive. Back home in Indonesia, plenty of old buildings built in early 20th century are very very crappy looking and only serve as tourist attraction because the government can't afford the maintenance. If the town could only afford a 2-hall cinema, I doubt it'd be able to afford keeping the old school building intact for daily use. At least SOME parts of it would have been torn down and replaced.

[angel_renoir]

Fail for posting before I'm done ranting.

I'm not sure if this is because I cheated and knew Jules was the culprit, but the story insisting that it's Elliott who's totally EVIL seems like a dead herring to me. Maybe because his evilness is so out of the blue and sort of makes no sense to me.

I also don't get how Dabria was so important if the showdown ends up being between Nora, Patch, and Chauncey. And even then, Cauncey's defeat is about as stupid as the villain's defeat in Evermore. It's so anti-climactic and nothing else needs to happen after this. AURGH! Unnecessary sequels are unnecessary.

How dark is Patch supposed to be again? The cover art for the novel is B/W, so no telling of anything, and in the comic cover he's pretty light-skinned. "Tanned as a Spaniard" doesn't tell me anything AT ALL.

[zelda_queen]

If Jules had been better-written, his plan would actually be pretty clever. He knows he can't let Patch recognize him and he knows that Patch is always stalking and hanging on Nora, so he gets someone else to interact with her while Patch is around. Thing is, Fitzpatrick didn't give him any presence in the novel at all, beyond "I'm so bored". He just drops out of nowhere at the end!

Dabria was so flipping pointless. Even worse, she NEVER shows up again, leastwise not in Crescendo. I haven't read all of Silence yet and Fitzpatrick has a fourth book planned so...she might be in there? No idea. Other than that, she's vanished.

I honestly don't know. The chapter describes him as "dusky", but that's still not very descriptive.

[chibi_regalli]

Wait... Jules is supposed to be the villain?

Then what do you call that bit where Elliot was going all "Come camping with us, Nora, OR ELSE"? 'Cause honestly, that bit was as creepy as all the Patch stuff to me. Probably because I was wondering how the hell this poor girl got so many rapists after her.

Seriously, when you have to go THIS creepy to make your protagonist look good by comparison, you're doing it wrong.

[zelda_queen]

Yeah...you'll see. ^^; Just read the next chapter's sporking.