After reading Delirium by Lauren Oliver, I decided that I couldn't wait for my library hold on the sequel, Pandemonium. I decided to buy it through amazon with a gift card I received for my birthday, so I ended up having to wait anyway. To pass the days until it got here, I picked up the book hush, hush by Becca Fitzpatrick which was recommended by a good friend of mine. It's the first book by Fitzpatrick and it made the best seller list, so I had high hopes going into it.
For typical teenager Nora Grey it's just another day in biology class, until her teacher reconfigures the seating chart. Now, she's paired with a mysterious boy named Patch whose bad-boy nature is at once both alluring and scary. When Patch starts showing up wherever she goes, Nora begins searching for information that will shed some light on her mysterious new biology partner. As she delves deeper, she finds herself more drawn to Patch, but the truth waiting for her is far more unsettling than she could imagine. Thrust into a world far beyond her own mortality, Nora must decide who to trust and her decision could have fatal consequences.
To be perfectly honest, I see a lot of similarities between hush, hush and the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer- Teenage girl falls in love with a "bad" guy who originally wants to kill her, but then decides he's in love with her instead. They become inseparable. Then enters the real bad guy whose creepy and sadistic and hell-bent on killing the girl in order to hurt the "bad" guy she's in love with.
Having said that, I have to admit that I liked the story overall. (That's shouldn't be too surprising to those of you who know I love the Twilight books.) Fitzpatrick does a nice job of writing suspenseful scenes that are creepy but not overly scary. And while I knew in the end nothing too horrible would happen, her style kept me turning pages late into the night. In my opinion, she could have spent a little more time flushing out some of her ideas. For example, I feel like she didn't really explain why Patch fell in love with Nora in the first place. I get the animal magnetism of it all, but if it's the real deal shouldn't there be some layering of emotion? Anyway, a little more thought could have made it more interesting and less predictable.
As a first time novel I think hush, hush was a pretty good start. I'm currently reading the second book in the series, Crescendo, and I've already noticed that she's stepped up her game. I'm hoping that Silence, book #3, will be continue the trend.
To be perfectly honest, I see a lot of similarities between hush, hush and the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer- Teenage girl falls in love with a "bad" guy who originally wants to kill her, but then decides he's in love with her instead. They become inseparable. Then enters the real bad guy whose creepy and sadistic and hell-bent on killing the girl in order to hurt the "bad" guy she's in love with.
Having said that, I have to admit that I liked the story overall. (That's shouldn't be too surprising to those of you who know I love the Twilight books.) Fitzpatrick does a nice job of writing suspenseful scenes that are creepy but not overly scary. And while I knew in the end nothing too horrible would happen, her style kept me turning pages late into the night. In my opinion, she could have spent a little more time flushing out some of her ideas. For example, I feel like she didn't really explain why Patch fell in love with Nora in the first place. I get the animal magnetism of it all, but if it's the real deal shouldn't there be some layering of emotion? Anyway, a little more thought could have made it more interesting and less predictable.
As a first time novel I think hush, hush was a pretty good start. I'm currently reading the second book in the series, Crescendo, and I've already noticed that she's stepped up her game. I'm hoping that Silence, book #3, will be continue the trend.
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