Just move one to a different planet from the other and let them find someone else. If Nora had to end up with someone, it should have been Vee. Though Vee isn't that much smarter than Nora, the two mirror each other perfectly. They share the same insanity, interests, and stupidity. Together, they could make history. Plus that would have been hilarious to see. I would also like to point out that the archangels are stupid.
Okay, like I said before, love and lust are totally mixed up in this book. It makes no sense that angels get sent to hell for falling in love with humans. I don't believe in God or Jesus or even angels, but I don't expect either of them to think of love as being a sin if you're straight. I know lust is, apparently, and okay.
Let's consider that. I mean, technically the archangels in this book consider lust a sin and something you get sent to hell for. Yet there are so many moments that they don't seem to notice.
Patch gets away with making out with Nora, sexually harassing her in the first book, and even getting hit on by Marcie. But the archangels still continue to sit up there, twiddling their thumbs, act all threatening and 'wait for Patch to slip up'.
If Patch can get away with shit like that, he wouldn't have a problem with getting it on with Nora, therefore he wouldn't even have a problem and they can both live happily ever after, bla bla bla. The plot was mostly about Nora bitching about not being with Patch while some random drama occurs. The plot twists felt very soap opera-ish to me.
Therefore they didn't affect me at all. They were more funny than shocking. But the again Becca fails at shock value and plot twists. In fact she fails at drawing any emotion out of the reader. Her writing is very noobish, with weird descriptions to over dramatic expressions of sorrow and love. They made me want to gag. Like Hush, hush, this book tried but failed to make me feel anything for it other than disgust and the occasional laughs and not the good kind.
I didn't care for anything that happened in this book. View all comments. Spoilers are coming up, but mostly about the 'relationship' between Nora and Patch. Also: pretend I'm reading this out loud to you, while I'm barely able to remember what they taught me in my anger management classes, and with a voice that's a few notches above normal volume.
There's also some foaming at the mouth and a very, very strained and scary smile on my face. Dear Nora, How shall I put this You are a stupid, stupid girl. The guy who loves you spends his time, Spoilers are coming up, but mostly about the 'relationship' between Nora and Patch.
The guy who loves you spends his time, trying to get through to your thick skull and show you what you mean to him. You, my dear, are an idiot. You are incapable of making rational decisions.
Not even normal ones are an option with you. The amazing leaps between your conclusions are way beyond my understanding, like in a galaxy, far, far away, even. When a guy tells you he'd sacrifice himself for you, you don't go around complaining about how he 'ran' when you told him you love him. Then you spend all your time telling Patch to go do something anatomically impossible, while you, Nora , spend the rest of your time trying to be a bad girl puh-lease while wishing he was with you, every time you have an itch you can't patch.
You even think he's trying to kill you again, jumping to conclusions, and where the hell did that one come from anyway? Oh please. All he has to do is stick his tongue in your ear and you're slobbering all over him like a needy puppy.
And then there's Vee, the best friend you really don't deserve. She made things interesting and was there to make me laugh every once in a while. How she can put up with you is a mystery to me. She made it to the top 5 of my 'awesome people' list. She deserves to be declared a saint. One more thing: You.
AT ALL. Last but definitely not least: I can't believe it, the size of the balls on this cliffhanger are huge. View all 59 comments. Jan 19, Holly marie rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: people who like love stories or twilight? Actually in love with this book!!!
Just read it, in a day. I cannot describe how much i adore it though, i have to say its my favourite one i've ever read. Got this off amazon yesterday, and i started reading and was hooked, i had to go out that night, and slept out and all i could think about was the book, it was that capturing. I started reading it this morning and finished this afternoon.
A Billion times better than hush hush, the author did an amazing job, can't wait for the next one, what a c Actually in love with this book!!! A Billion times better than hush hush, the author did an amazing job, can't wait for the next one, what a cliff hanger it was left on! Only problem was i was screaming at nora throughout, i missed patch a hell of a lot. So many secrets and different plots, its an amazing read. I'm starting reading it again as well, i'm that hooked!
View all 37 comments. Dec 09, Carol Chan added it. So I was at Borders the other day, and this book was on the shelf and underneath it read 'Patch is the bad boy Edward wishes he was'. Of course, the idea of a forbidden-ish love story will always remind us of You-Know-What, but i'm seriously saying that this book is addictive enough for it to be a crime to compare it twilight.
And yes I have a fet So I was at Borders the other day, and this book was on the shelf and underneath it read 'Patch is the bad boy Edward wishes he was'. And yes I have a fetish unsexual of course for angels. Nora Grey is a teenager living in a town somewhere. One day a new transfer student comes and he is He has a very, very mysterious past.
And that's the next great thing about the book. I'm guessing it can be categorised as a thriller beecause in some parts of the book, I was so scared in a good way that I had to close my curtains because i thought I'd see a stalker out there. Did you catch that? Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick is so good. It's a great mix of mystery, thriller, adventure, lurve and a sexy, sexy, sexy bad boy or angel? S in the blurb it says "For Nora is in the middle of a centuries-old battle between the immortal and those that have fallen".
The battle wasn't that dramatic so just keep that in mind. It was still really good! Read it!!! Mar 31, jessica rated it really liked it. View all 9 comments. It's the one thing I did right. You're the one thing I did right. Whatever happens, promise me you'll remember that.
I don't care why you came into my life, only that you 4. I don't care why you came into my life, only that you did. I don't remember all the things I did wrong. I remember what I did right, I remember you. You made my life meaningful. You made my life special. The story was intense and I really like some unexpected things :P P. I love Patch view spoiler [his real name is Jev, thank God :P hide spoiler ] view spoiler [ 1 Nora is stupid.
Of course Patch was distant because of the Archangels. Come on!!! It seemed from the beginning that something was going on with him. He is Nephilim :P. Good one!!!! He made bad decisions but no one is perfect. Okay in the first book she wanted Eliot. He was bad guy. In the second book, she had a relationship with Rixon.
He was evil. What's wrong with you? He killed her adoptive father. Her biological father is Hank Miller!!! Oh my god I hate him. I loved it!! There is no other explanation!! View all 7 comments. May 16, Joyzi rated it did not like it Recommends it for: my dog. Shelves: e-book , fiction , author-was-possessed , don-t-judge-me , reviewed , book-series , author-american , ya-books , disappointing-books , paranormal-romance.
If you're in the right mind please don't read this crap it's just twilight with fallen angels instead of sparkly vampires, duh. And seriously do you want to read another book about a Bella Swan character falling for Edward Cullen character for no apparent reason other than the guy is hot?
And Becca Fitzpatrick, Five words honey I now have a copy. Feb 21, Lucy rated it did not like it Shelves: self-inflicted-and-i-knew-better , disappearing-parent-syndrome , coming-of-age , so-very-awful , story-what-story , young-adult , anti-feminist , milking-a-money-cow , paranormal , how-did-this-get-published. Sometimes, if you're really lucky, a book will teach you a lesson or give you something valuable you can carry with you through your entire life.
Crescendo gave me an unexpected gift although lesson might be too generous a term. It's a sort of 'I've been through this so that can't possibly be as bad. Also, I'll have drugs to get me through it -- which might have been the only thing that would have made Crescendo a pleasant experience.
Often the second book in a YA trilogy will feel like a filler between novel one and novel three. You usually get to see what it's like when the honeymoon is over so that in book three you can get some sort of affirmation that the characters are indeed soul mates because they made it through all of that and then some.
For Nora and Patch, the honeymoon is indeed over. Nora tells Patch she loves him. He is less than responsive to her delightful confession. I'm sorry, but why are things like this seen as confessions? In the last book she'd been willing to sacrifice herself to give him a chance of what he wanted most, a life as a human. Obviously she loves him. We get it. He gave up the chance at humanity because being human wasn't worth anything without her.
Obviously he loves her. I think these confessional moments come from trying to pace what is supposed to be an extraordinary relationship against social norms and rites of passage because the author loses track of the story's pacing. Fitzpatrick is not the only one guilty of this, but it does make Nora look dimmer than a two watt light bulb to fuss over the word love.
The inevitable fall out of Patch not telling Nora he loves her back with roses and fanfare you know, more fanfare than him sacrificing what he wanted most for her is that she breaks up with him. Their break up could have been done without. It was just stupid and confusing.
Nora can't decide why they're broken up. At one point when they're almost back together Patch tells her that he's going to have go on the run and hide from the archangels because they're going to put him in hell for loving her. Nora walks away rather than risking his soul, but for the rest of the book she wibbles back and forth about the reasons why they're over.
Is it because he's keeping secrets from her or because she doesn't want to risk sending him to burn in hell? Later, she wants him to burn in hell, but she doesn't want anyone else's help accomplishing it.
Fuck the archangels, she's putting him in hell herself. Also, my what the fuck moment with all of this: Fallen angels routinely mistreat humans and their half-human offspring. They torture and kill people.
Patch was going to murder Nora and get a human soul as a reward for all his effort. That was all okie dokie. The straw that breaks the camels back here -- the freaking thing that will send him to hell is loving her? Imagine a bunch of archangels chilling in a conference room discussing the matter. Should we let them kill people without consequence? But what about falling in love? Look, I get that Angels are not supposed to love humans, that this is the big no-no for this particular supernatural creature, but it seems a little stupid for the archangels to let the fallen angels run rampant and then lose their shit and play the hell card over this.
Other major plot points in no particular order aside from what struck me as totally ridiculous: So Nora's not her father's biological child How does Fitzpatrick fix this gaping plot hole? She makes her biological father and adoptive father distantly related on the nephilim wave length.
That's right. Both men are nephilim. Granted, her biological father is MUCH more nephilim than her adoptive father, but apparently her adoptive father was not human enough to have kept Nora safe from Patch in Hush, Hush because Patch wanted to kill her on the basis of being her adoptive father's child or at least that's how it was explained in the first novel.
It's disgustingly complicated and stupid. It was clearly NOT the intentions with which the first book was written. This entire subplot about who is really Nora's daddy is about extending what should have just been a stand alone into a trilogy.
Milk that money making cow. There's a scene where NoraDrew and Vee are breaking into a character's bedroom to find out all his mysterious secrets and sniff his laundry. Nora always comments on laundry when she's busting into someone's house undercover.
In the scene before it Nora instructs Vee to park behind some shrubs. Vee expresses the concern that the car will not make it over a ditch to get to said shrubs. Nora insists and Vee does it. Her car gets stuck in the ditch. They move the car back and forth until they flatten one of the tires on a rock. Without a tidy getaway car, Nora still decides to go through with the plan.
I assumed the fact that the car was totally disabled would become part of the plot of the scene -- like their hasty escape is thwarted by the car Despite all the time Fitzpatrick spends discussing the position of the car, the moving of the car, and the fact that the car is stuck the entire conclusion was calling Triple A later in a throwaway sentence. At this point I was rocking myself in a corner trying not to stomp my nook into rubble. Speaking of Vee, all the fat jokes in the novel started to piss me off.
We get that Vee is heavy. Vee don't need her to suggest food at every turn to reinforce it. If Nora eats one donut Vee eats twelve and the polishes off Nora's leftover one while Nora is outside being flirted with boy of the moment.
More examples include: Vee insists on stopping for hot dogs before they go on their NoraDrew mission. This scene is there so Nora can complain about the grease and chemicals and Vee can swoon over the courage endorphins she supposedly gets from them. Again, Nora's food goes uneaten or consumed by someone else.
In that same scene Nora demands Vee chase down a car a quarter of a mile. The car arrives at the location, the boy gets upstairs and inside, he has an entire conversation with Nora, Nora goes downstairs, and Vee is still standing by the curb wheezing. For the love of god, we get it. Vee is fat and Nora is slender as a toothpick. Skinny equates good, pretty, worthwhile and every other characteristic you want Nora to have.
Whenever Marcie, the book's mean girl, has a negative comment to make about Nora it's usually not actually about Nora. Marcie routinely calls Vee fat while fighting with Nora as if this somehow negatively reflects upon Nora. If you ask me it only negatively reflects on Marcie. Marcie's first scorching remark is that Nora's father's dead. I don't even know how I can begin to explain that this is not an insult. My father died when I was a teenager and if someone had told me my dad was dead as an insult I'm not sure I even would have comprehended they were trying to insult me.
If you want to use a dead father as a joke you should say he had a heart attack while in a cheap motel with an even cheaper hooker. Nora is too perfect to insult! The only thing repeated through the book is that she studies too much!! I could go on and on about everything that was wrong or crappy about this book, but I'm not going to continue subjecting myself to it. I read this book despite having disliked Hush, Hush because of a blog post the author wrote about negative reviews coming back to haunt the person writing them.
The book was bad and I'm not going to be intimidated out of telling people exactly why. View all 94 comments. Well, that doesn't mean I don't like surprises, but this was too much to take in. EDIT: I just read the summary of the third book. She doesn't remember anything. I think this next book is going to make me want to kill someone. View all 12 comments. Feb 14, Jessica rated it liked it Shelves: hall-of-shame , angels. Someone please pass me that voodoo doll?
I have to hurt Nora. Thank you. I'm feeling better now. My fingernails are bitten down, my eyes are red-rimmed, my hair is all tousled because I kept pulling it Enough with the violence. Nora is a major pain in the ass in this book.
God, even though I know I shouldn't, I've totally got the hots for him. What a ride! Guess I like to torture myself So, if you feel like throwing a fit for hours while reading, I'd recommend you to give Crescendo a shot. View all 42 comments. Nov 24, Natalie Monroe rated it did not like it Shelves: confusing , i-should-ve-said-no , protagonists-i-want-to-laser-face , slut-shaming , dishonor-on-your-cow , derp-moments , second-book-syndrome , not-worth-the-hype , bye-bye-nineteenth-amendment , mommy-why-is-the-villain-bad.
My brain, guys. My brain. Reading this book is the equivalent to listening to Vogon poetry. It may not liquify your brain not yet anyways.
Give it another two books , but it will lead to a massive decrease in brain cells. First off, the plot. Hold on a sec. What plot? Crescendo is not so much a story about hostile archangels and the opposing Nephilim than it is about a girl breaking up with her boyfriend and immediately wants him back.
And let's not forget the slutty bitch that he gets toget My brain, guys. And let's not forget the slutty bitch that he gets together with afterwards. Two-thirds of the book is relationship drama. Nora breaks up with Patch near the beginning to protect him because apparently, their love is forbidden and Patch might get his cocky ass sent to hell. But the archangels are totally okay with Patch and Marcie because hey, it's just lust.
It's not like it's one of the seven sins or anything. After breaking up with the epic love of her life, Nora proceeds to spend every other page whining about how Patch doesn't love her anymore and how he has the audacity to move on with her archenemy, Marcie. Patch would come around a few times, trying to patch things up see what I did there and Nora would send him away because her will is strong.
She does not want to shop—I mean, get back together with her ex. Yet she still expects Patch to stick around even after she finds a new boy toy.
Because no means yes, donchaknow? I felt a hard smile cross my face as I realized it didn't matter what I did, or what Scott might do; Patch had to protect me. News flash, Nora, Patch doesn't have to do squat. He's a guardian angel, not a trained dog. Though it'd take a entire militia to protect Nora from herself because the girl is as dumb as a doornail.
There's this secret Nephilim club called The Black Hand and instead using the Internet like a normal person to dig up info on it, she ponders the 5Ws endlessly in her mind: What does this have to do with my dad? Where are the headquarters? When will I get off my ass to do some research like the studious character I'm supposed to be? Screenshot from this video It's called Wikipedia, Nora.
Have you heard of it? When Nora isn't wallowing in self-pity, she does her best to make other people's lives miserable.
Namely, her best friend Vee. There is not a single scene in which Vee shows up and is not slapped with the fat card : "I had never seen Vee just eat one doughnut, but I kept my mouth shut. No way. But you know Vee.
Always there to make an uncomfortable situation ten times worse," I muttered under my breath. She could be obnoxious, annoying and lazy, but she never lied to me. Vee is a fantastic friend if a tad boy-possessed.
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