Crescendo: Prologue

[zelda_queen]

ZeldaQueen: You guys knew it was coming and now it is here: Crescendo, the sequel to the utterly fucked-up novel Hush, Hush. Over the next twenty-five chapters worth of sporkings, we're going to be treated to lovely amounts of hypocrisy, ill logic, slut shaming, general idiocy, and all the previous abuse vibes we know and hate. Not only that, but

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[tsukasabuddha]

I don't even own a gun and I am just reeling over Daddy's treatment of his. What the hell. He has a kid and he keeps a loaded gun just lying around, not to mention out in a car and in the elements. And then he somehow manages to fit it in waistband? Like, ignoring the fact that that is dangerous, would one really fit in an average person's waistband? And then he goes on to actually shoot the fallen angel.

And then when he gets shot, it doesn't even say where! It just goes straight to melodrama.

"He felt the shots rip through him with a searing fire that seemed to shatter him into a thousand pieces. "

So many mixed metaphors, so little info.

[zelda_queen]

I think that, like most of the other nonsensical things in this series, Fitzpatrick got her info on gun ownership from movies. At least, I'm pretty sure that's the reason he sticks the gun down the waistband of his pants. (And for the life of me, I can never figure out why people in fiction do that. I'd think there'd be a lot of stuff down there you would NOT want to get shot!)

[detritius]

You know, that description doesn't sound like someone getting shot - it sounds like temperature shock. When you heat some materials, such as glass, up too quickly, they shatter. So that's what I'm picturing happening to Nora's dad.

And where would you have to get shot, exactly, to live long enough to have this melodramatic scene, but not to contact anyone or get help? My guess would be a semi-major artery, because he wouldn't die on impact, and he'd have time to have this scene while bleeding out, but that might be me thinking about it more than the author ever did.

About the gun in the waistband, they did it all the time on Lost, so I guess it can be done. It's just ridiculously dangerous and impractical.

[aikaterini]

Despite his idiocy in not warning Harrison about his daughter fifteen years ago, Mysterious Person sadly seems to be the most sensible person so far. He at least takes the trouble to warn Harrison at all, reminds Harrison that he needs to leave when Harrison starts babbling on about Nora, and has the decency to warn Harrison to get away even while he's dying. It's too bad for Mysterious Person that Harrison is a clueless idiot and thus all of his efforts to be helpful are for naught.

[zelda_queen]

I think the Mysterious Person was fortunate enough to have the town brain cell at this point in the story.

[radiantstardust]

Long time lurker, first time commenter.

Wow. Just wow. There's really no tension in this prologue at all, is there? Which is pretty bad considering someone just, you know, died.

I've read Hush, Hush, but I haven't read this one. The plot sounds really contrived, though, with the whole Patch paying attention to the cliched Mean-Girl-Speaking-Part from book one. I gotta say you're probably braver than me. I've read some awful stuff, but I could barely get through Hush, Hush because I kept screaming at the book.

[zelda_queen]

The prologue is ridiculously boring, yes. A murder, a conspiracy, fallen angels and Nephilim, I'm amazed it's so dull.

Eh, I would really not recommend this one if you can't get through Hush, Hush. Reading more than a chapter or so at a time made me want to twist my own head off. There was one point where, in my public library, I hit myself on the head with the book to alleviate frustration.

And yes, "contrived" sums the Marcy/Patch/Nora thing very nicely. "Creepy" does, as well. I won't spoil things for later, but Marcy really should look into a restraining order, and I don't mean for Patch.

In any case, glad to hear from you! :)

[illyriasacolyte]

I guess that between Mrs. Grey's terrible taste in husbands and Mr. Grey's utter cluelessness, we can see where Nora inherited her general idiocy.
Actually, with such a shallow gene pool (her mother clearly suffers from a mental disorder and her father has long since misplaced his brain cell), I'm surprised she was able to hold Patch off for so long.

[mogseltof]

I... it gets stupider? How even... Something tells me I really don't want to know, but I'm going to find out anyway. *headdesk*

[zelda_queen]

Yes, it gets stupider. God alone knows how Fitzpatrick manages, but these characters are complete and utter MORONS. All of them. If any one of them grew a brain cell, the plot would never happen, I would wager.