Hush, Hush follows Nora Grey as she gets partnered with the
new student in her Biology class. She doesn’t know anything about him and their
first assignment for the class is to get to know your partner. Somehow he seems
to know quite a bit about her already. Nora finds out very little about Patch
as he isn’t forthcoming about himself. She finds herself drawn to him but can’t
get to know him as she is busy trying to figure out who is following her and
possibly trying to kill her. Together with her best friend Vee, Nora sets out t
find out what’s going on.
I found the story to pretty much be a Twilight rip off with
a different supernatural being than vampires. I was worried that this was what
it was going to be but I hoped those fears would be unfounded. No such luck.
From what I’ve seen, there aren’t a lot of well-known books about fallen angels
so this could have been a different take on them. I don’t know if there are any
abilities that angels have or ones they don’t have which leaves room for
invention and the fallen angels could have been pretty awesome. Instead they
were exactly the same as the vampires in Twilight.
I didn’t find myself connecting with any of the characters,
I couldn’t find a depth to any of them which was frustrating. Nora didn’t have
any consistency throughout the book. One minute she was terrified of Patch, the
next moment she wanted to kiss him. Maybe being scared does something for her,
I don’t know. She just kept making the same mistakes over and over again, never
learning from any of the experiences. Vee started off as a decent character but
after a bit she just turned in to another Nora, acting the same way. The
character of Patch could have been so amazing. There was a little prologue and
I can’t help but think that the book would have been better if Patch had been
the protagonist and we followed his life as a fallen angel.
The writing style made it easy and quick to finish this book
which is one positive about it. There was not enough description of the places
for me to picture where they were and their location in relation to the rest of
the town. I could, however, give you a very accurate description of Patch’s
eyes and body as they are frequently mentioned throughout. It’s mostly dialogue
with a change of scene every so often. I need a bit more than that from my
books.
I think this book would appeal to fans of Twilight but I
couldn’t relate to any of it. I started it with no expectations so luckily
there weren’t any that needed to be met as I fear this book would not have done
so. To be fair to the author I don’t think this was aimed at me so it’s not a
surprise I didn’t like it. The simplistic writing style making it easy to read
may encourage people who don’t read a lot to pick up a book which I am all in
favour of. However, people who read a lot would probably notice the lack of
depth to the story and characters. I won’t be continuing with this series but I
definitely think there is an audience for this type of book.
Overall rating 1 out of 5.
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