Hush, Hush (Hush, Hush #1)

 

 

By: Becca Fitzpatrick
Release Date: October 13th 2009
Publisher: Simon & Schuster BFYR
Rating: 1 out 5
Series:Hush, Hush
Summary: SACRED OATH
A FALLEN ANGEL
A FORBIDDEN LOVE

Romance was not part of Nora Grey's plan. She's never been particularly attracted to the boys at her school, no matter how hard her best friend, Vee, pushes them at her. Not until Patch comes along. With his easy smile and eyes that seem to see inside her, Patch draws Nora to him against her better judgment.

But after a series of terrifying encounters, Nora's not sure whom to trust. Patch seems to be everywhere she is and seems to know more about her than her closest friends. She can't decide whether she should fall into his arms or run and hide. And when she tries to seek some answers, she finds herself near a truth that is way more unsettling than anything Patch makes her feel.

For she is right in the middle of an ancient battle between the immortal and those that have fallen - and, when it comes to choosing sides, the wrong choice will cost Nora her life.

Review: What a nostalgia read!

I have read Hush Hush only once, and I hate it. It has been more than a decade since I read this book. I want to see if this book held up.

When I finished reading Hush, Hush, I had to mull it over for a while. I really wasn’t sure what to say. I am absolutely love the cover (athletic looking, darkly mysterious fallen angel, contorted in midair in gray-scale? What’s not to like?).

It didn’t work.

Inside was the most confused piece of writing I’ve read in some time. Becca Fitzpatrick didn’t seem to know quite what she wanted, only that it had to be Ominous, Scary, sexy, and Dangerous. With that in mind, she threw a bunch of things and let her narrator, Nora, and sort them out. Nora, understandably, had some trouble with this, and the result is a thoroughly frustrating heroine who jumps to insane conclusions based on inane evidence one moment, and the next goes blithely along into obvious danger.

A rip-off of Twilight is the close similarities that I can think of. You have a regular average girl here, absent parents, a love affair with a dangerous supernatural boyfriend, a final showdown with a villain of his own kind. The mythology, while somewhat unusually paper thin. The characters are shallow and undeveloped.

The worst offense, Fitzpatrick, is how causal she wrote on sexual harassment scene between the main characters. Patch is seriously sexually harassing Nora in class, in front of the teacher and seemingly with the teacher’s encouragement.

That is just wrong.

And finally, why exactly Patch and Nora are in love? They know nothing about each other. Nora spends most of the book calling Patch creepy, fearing him, being roughly pinned by him to various walls in dark places or being at his knife’s point, and yet she is full of desire for him? It just makes no sense. As for Patch, I don’t know one thing about him or why he loves Nora.

My list can go on and on...

Hush Hush is a terrible book with lackluster annoying characters, ridiculous plot, and bad writing, but with an overabundance of creepiness. In a sad way, Twilight saga is a better book than this.