You are full of awesome for slaying this monster of a book! Reading your sporkings was the only way for me to get through 'Hush, Hush' without losing the will to live. I don't envy you the sequels, but I will faithfully follow your future sporkings. I'm curious to see if it improves at all, or if the horrors just keep on coming.
Even more than Nora, the character I feel the most sympathy towards is Jules. I can hardly bear to imagine the horror of having your body taken over by a callous and evil invader, year after year, whilst you can do nothing but watch as he uses your body in whatever ways please him. Of course, Jules actions are also wrong and terrible, but I can understand his motives. After being abused like that for such a length of time, it's not hard to believe that a character would do almost anything to get revenge on his abuser. I do not understand how the abuser is portrayed as the hero of this book.
The horrors just keep coming, albeit in different ways. -_- Here's an idea of how bad Crescendo is. When I was reading it in the library, I literally hit my head against it to relieve my frustration. I never had to do that for anything in Hush, Hush.
I know! I felt so sorry for that poor guy! And really, that's how Nephilim in general are treated in the series. We'll see more about it in the sequel, but they just are treated horribly.
I'm glad you liked the sporkings! ^^ Here's to the trek through the next one!
There's also the very bad cases of showing and not telling that go on
Don't you mean 'Telling, not Showing'? :P
This story just makes me cry. I can't believe someone let this get on book shelves, even if it took 100 tries. This is really a situation of 'You really, really should have given up'. This doesn't give hope to aspiring writers, nor should it. If this is the stuff I have to compete with, then I am sorely fucked. It's bad enough competing with good books (which, I'm not complaining about), but I also have to compete with garbage? That's just...deflating.
Even then, with Jules, one could argue that the only reason he went to that extent was because his mind snapped. People can only take so much, the courts see it all the time when the abused cracks and kills their abuser. Sure, it's usually a knee-jerk reaction, but one could still argue that though centuries of mindrape, what was essentially mental torture, and absolutely no way to escape, not even suicide, he simply went batshit insane. He lost his ability to differentiate between his abuser (Patch) and everyone else and sees EVERYONE as an abuser. Which really is understandable. If I were him, I would want kill everyone too.
Granted, the fact he is so calculating is a strike against him. People with broken psyche's are not so manipulative and cunning. They are unpredictable, messy, unorganized, and are more likely to be manipulated themselves. You really have to think of it like he is a schizophrenic; they are not of sound mind enough to make complicated things like plans, no less manipulate
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I was reminded the other day about a boy who was in my class all the way from first to ninth grade. In seventh and eighth grade, he turned into what now seems like the stereotypical Bad Boy. He mostly had friends who were older, and he also spent a lot of time with friends of his older brothers, getting in contact with drugs and alcohol.
He was also considered a bit of a thug, and he carried concealed knives in his clothes to school, and a lot of the younger kids were scared of him. My friends and I were pretty damn sure that this guy was not going to live to see his eighteenth birthday unless he decided to get away from the company he kept.
The reason I wrote all of this is because this is the guy I think about when I hear "Bad boy with a heart of gold." Because even though he appeared to be the kind of guy you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley, he's always been one of the nicest guys I've ever known. Not someone like Patch. Patch doesn't even have a heart, much less one of gold.
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Even more than Nora, the character I feel the most sympathy towards is Jules. I can hardly bear to imagine the horror of having your body taken over by a callous and evil invader, year after year, whilst you can do nothing but watch as he uses your body in whatever ways please him. Of course, Jules actions are also wrong and terrible, but I can understand his motives. After being abused like that for such a length of time, it's not hard to believe that a character would do almost anything to get revenge on his abuser. I do not understand how the abuser is portrayed as the hero of this book.
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I know! I felt so sorry for that poor guy! And really, that's how Nephilim in general are treated in the series. We'll see more about it in the sequel, but they just are treated horribly.
I'm glad you liked the sporkings! ^^ Here's to the trek through the next one!
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Don't you mean 'Telling, not Showing'? :P
This story just makes me cry. I can't believe someone let this get on book shelves, even if it took 100 tries. This is really a situation of 'You really, really should have given up'. This doesn't give hope to aspiring writers, nor should it. If this is the stuff I have to compete with, then I am sorely fucked. It's bad enough competing with good books (which, I'm not complaining about), but I also have to compete with garbage? That's just...deflating.
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Even then, with Jules, one could argue that the only reason he went to that extent was because his mind snapped. People can only take so much, the courts see it all the time when the abused cracks and kills their abuser. Sure, it's usually a knee-jerk reaction, but one could still argue that though centuries of mindrape, what was essentially mental torture, and absolutely no way to escape, not even suicide, he simply went batshit insane. He lost his ability to differentiate between his abuser (Patch) and everyone else and sees EVERYONE as an abuser. Which really is understandable. If I were him, I would want kill everyone too.
Granted, the fact he is so calculating is a strike against him. People with broken psyche's are not so manipulative and cunning. They are unpredictable, messy, unorganized, and are more likely to be manipulated themselves. You really have to think of it like he is a schizophrenic; they are not of sound mind enough to make complicated things like plans, no less manipulate ( ... )
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He was also considered a bit of a thug, and he carried concealed knives in his clothes to school, and a lot of the younger kids were scared of him. My friends and I were pretty damn sure that this guy was not going to live to see his eighteenth birthday unless he decided to get away from the company he kept.
The reason I wrote all of this is because this is the guy I think about when I hear "Bad boy with a heart of gold." Because even though he appeared to be the kind of guy you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley, he's always been one of the nicest guys I've ever known. Not someone like Patch. Patch doesn't even have a heart, much less one of gold.
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