*raises eyebrow* Please tell me I'm not the only one who thought that sounded like something out of Patch's mouth. Nope, you are not. BI Seconding. It took me a second to realize it WASN'T Patch saying that. Romance: You're doing it wrong.
Yep. Sushi chef who had lost control of his own hands due to an accident the guy was responsible for, the guy feels guilty, sushi chef teaches him to make sushi in his place as surrogate hands, they become best friends, and then at the end the guy dies and his fiancee tells Black Jack to give the chef his hands so a piece of her fiance will live on. That was sweet. This is not. It just makes me want to track down the second volume of Black Jack.
Digression aside, this chapter... why is it every single chapter of this makes me want to find Fitzpatrick and shake her? Seriously, lady, if you're writing for your rape fetish, fine, but warn us first!
I decided that I will never truly be happy again until I see some fan tattoo that quote on their body, like the Twihards do. Because there is no greater testament to how stupid the fanbase is until someone takes a stupid, badly written line that makes no sense even in its own context, and permanently inks it onto their body.
Yes, I'm angry just by reading the recap, and I don't feel like being nice.
Reading about how Nora is treated makes me want to hug my two main female characters. One is a rookie pirate captain, and the other is a gunslinging treasure hunter. None of them will be caught dead sobbing helplessly like Nora here. If reading about a character acting this way makes me feel all icky inside, I really don't want to try writing one and get inside her head... Or inside the head of the people mistreating her and taking advantage of her for that matter.
OK, here’s my crack!theory about this book: it was written as a horror novel in which Nora was a victim and Patch was the manipulative antagonist (well, he’s still manipulative, but that’s beside the point), but no publisher accepted it. Then Twilight came along... and the author decided to introduce some changes in order to make her own novel more marketable, so it was rewritten as a paranormal romance. Abusive paranormal boyfriend/helpless human girl sells, right? Great - no need to tweak the manipulative antagonist all that much! Just say that he loves her, he really does, and be done with it! The Twihards bought it, after all.
...It’s just a way of saying that Hush, Hush works so much better as a horror novel. Of course, there's still the issue of sloppy worldbuilding, stupid characters, not to mention inconsistency and plot convenience - but much of it could be excused if the author portrayed such things as possible side effects of Nora’s mind being manipulated and her (Nora) being an unreliable narrator, so the readers had to
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Reminds me of the Sparkle Project entry for this, where it was noted that the book would have been much more interesting if Nora had just been going insane, hallucinating everything. Sadly, Fitzpatrick has done nothing but go on about how sexy she thinks Patch is, and how she thinks he has so many great qualities, so...yeah.
Not only that, but if he killed Jules, Nora is the one who gets to face the police. Yeah, he was STRANGLING him. Her fingerprints would be all over his throat! Even if Nora convinced the police (who have proven to be rather disinclined to listen to her) that it was in self-defense, what's she going to say? Even if she avoids going to Juvie at all, she's still probably going to be whispered about by everyone as that crazy girl who killed a student. Add in her police call about the break-in, the fact that her house was set on fire while she was at home alone, and the suspicion that she brained Marcie, and I'd say Nora would have even fewer friends than she began with. And it would be all Patch's fault.
Even the plot holes read better as a horror novel! I'd accept a universe custom-tailored to make this poor girl miserable over this! Oh, wait, what's the difference? This universe IS custom-tailored to make the poor girl miserable. Here she's just been mind-raped into compliance.
Hmmm, I like this crack!theory - everything would make way more sense with Patch as the antagonist in a horror novel. In the horror!Hush,Hush the reason Patch is stalking Nora is that he's planning for her to be his new human vessel (the whole kill-a-human-to-get-re-angeled thing doesn't exist, since that's just silly). Maybe Jules is getting harder to control, maybe Patch has driven him insane and that makes him less-than-optimal as a vessel. Anyways, that explains why he's spending so much time on Nora - he's trying to persuade her to become his vessel, but since he's so creepy, Nora still has doubts even though he's manipulating her mind.
Then Jules enters the picture and shows Nora the truth. With his cover broken, Patch kidnaps Vee and demands Nora come to the school and be his vessel or else he'll hurt Vee. Jules and Nora team up to kill him and Jules probably dies in the confrontation, leaving Nora alive but suffering the after effects of having her mind manipulated, not knowing what's real and what's not.
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Nope, you are not. BI
Seconding. It took me a second to realize it WASN'T Patch saying that. Romance: You're doing it wrong.
Yep. Sushi chef who had lost control of his own hands due to an accident the guy was responsible for, the guy feels guilty, sushi chef teaches him to make sushi in his place as surrogate hands, they become best friends, and then at the end the guy dies and his fiancee tells Black Jack to give the chef his hands so a piece of her fiance will live on. That was sweet. This is not. It just makes me want to track down the second volume of Black Jack.
Digression aside, this chapter... why is it every single chapter of this makes me want to find Fitzpatrick and shake her? Seriously, lady, if you're writing for your rape fetish, fine, but warn us first!
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Yes, I'm angry just by reading the recap, and I don't feel like being nice.
Reading about how Nora is treated makes me want to hug my two main female characters. One is a rookie pirate captain, and the other is a gunslinging treasure hunter. None of them will be caught dead sobbing helplessly like Nora here. If reading about a character acting this way makes me feel all icky inside, I really don't want to try writing one and get inside her head... Or inside the head of the people mistreating her and taking advantage of her for that matter.
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...It’s just a way of saying that Hush, Hush works so much better as a horror novel. Of course, there's still the issue of sloppy worldbuilding, stupid characters, not to mention inconsistency and plot convenience - but much of it could be excused if the author portrayed such things as possible side effects of Nora’s mind being manipulated and her (Nora) being an unreliable narrator, so the readers had to ( ... )
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Not only that, but if he killed Jules, Nora is the one who gets to face the police. Yeah, he was STRANGLING him. Her fingerprints would be all over his throat! Even if Nora convinced the police (who have proven to be rather disinclined to listen to her) that it was in self-defense, what's she going to say? Even if she avoids going to Juvie at all, she's still probably going to be whispered about by everyone as that crazy girl who killed a student. Add in her police call about the break-in, the fact that her house was set on fire while she was at home alone, and the suspicion that she brained Marcie, and I'd say Nora would have even fewer friends than she began with. And it would be all Patch's fault.
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Then Jules enters the picture and shows Nora the truth. With his cover broken, Patch kidnaps Vee and demands Nora come to the school and be his vessel or else he'll hurt Vee. Jules and Nora team up to kill him and Jules probably dies in the confrontation, leaving Nora alive but suffering the after effects of having her mind manipulated, not knowing what's real and what's not.
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