Win Hush, Hush & Crescendo!

In honor of the new release of Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick win both books, Hush, Hush & Crescendo right here!

Hush, Hush – Now available in paperback!

A sacred oath, a fallen angel, a forbidden love.

Nora Grey has had a rough year. Her father was murdered and as a result, her mother had thrown herself into work, leaving Nora alone most of the time in their secluded farmhouse. Despite this, she manages to be a very good girl, never missing school, never even driving without permission.

But when the transfer student, Patch, gets assigned as her lab partner in biology, from the moment the two are together, there's an inescapable magnetism that draws Nora deeper and deeper into his dark world. When she discovers the enormous V-shaped scars on his back, she discovers that there is a battle going on between the fallen and the immortal. And she's the object.

The magnetism she feels is now more inescapable than ever.

Crescendo – Available October 19

The sequel to the New York Times Best selling phenomenon, Hush, Hush!

Nora should have know her life was far from perfect. Despite starting a relationship with her guardian angel, Patch (who, title aside, can be described anything but angelic), and surviving an attempt on her life, things are not looking up. Patch is starting to pull away and Nora can't figure out if it's for her best interest or if his interest has shifted to her arch-enemy Marcie Millar. Not to mention that Nora is haunted by images of her father and she becomes obsessed with finding out what really happened to him that night he left for Portland and never came home.

The farther Nora delves into the mystery of her father's death, the more she comes to question if her Nephilim blood line has something to do with it as well as why she seems to be in danger more than the average girl. Since Patch isn't answering her questions and seems to be standing in her way, she has to start finding the answers on her own. Relying too heavily on the fact that she has a guardian angel puts Nora at risk again and again. But can she really count on Patch or is he hiding secrets darker than she can even imagine?

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Lose yourself in Nora and Patch’s story with copies of Hush, Hush and Crescendo!

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Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick

Baaaa…I’m a sheep. I had to follow the herd, so I downloaded Hush Hush to my kindle. I had read a lot of mixed reviews regarding this particular book, but I just couldn’t resist that cover. Talk about tragic! Maybe it is the repressed Catholic in me, but there is something about a fallen angel that just piques my interest. This is how I spent the ride home from Gulf Shores, Alabama getting to know Nora and Patch.

Nora is your atypical, slightly mental from the loss of a parent, 10th grader. What’s with YA novels and dead parents BTW? Does it make one more interesting if their parents are dead, or maybe even divorced? Why can’t an interesting character evolve from a perfectly Beaver Cleaver home environment, or is that too normal? Nothing like a little ADHD and mild sociopathic behavior to give a novel more flavor. But I digress. Ok, back to Nora. Nora is a latch key kid, with very little supervision. She is also a bit on the OCD – and as a sophomore is already obsessed with getting into a top tier college. Nora is also very attractive and on the ezine at her high school. My mental image was screaming Chloe from Smallville – with the added bonus of big curly red hair, and no street smarts what-so-ever.

Chloe, I mean Nora, meets Patch, by way of her biology teacher, who forces her to become his partner and tutor him. Patch isn’t a very good student. He is also an absolute ass. He makes tons of cryptic comments, harasses, belittles and just genuinely annoys Nora. In fact his initial cryptic and insulting comments are a bit reminiscent of the Edward Cullen – without the sultry charm. Patch is a little bit dirty, and bit on the trashy side. He was a great character though. A very well rounded individual with a lot more depth than gullible and naive little Nora.

Nora and Patch commence to circle around each other in a heated, hate/love mating ritual. Nora is thrown off by Patch’s dark side, she has the feeling that he could very easily hurt her, and she can’t trust him as far as she could throw him. Not to mention, during this whole getting-to-know the bad boy phase, she is also plagued by some odd occurrences that make her question her sanity. Either someone is trying to kill her, or she is going schizo. Either or, it doesn’t look good for Nora.

What can I say? I liked the book. Don’t get me wrong, it had its dee-duh-dee moments, but it kept me entertained for those 3 hours that it took my husband to drive us home. 

What I liked about Hush Hush. Fitzpatrick paints a pretty picture with her words. Instead of going into intricate details about his abs, Fitzpatrick writes of the small of Patch and the way he carries himself. You can almost smell the cigar smoke, and imagine how he would linger in a doorway. Her descriptions of the places they visit are vivid and dark, Patch enjoys slumming it, and through her words I could imagine myself in those dingy pool halls and even see the portraits of angels lining the walls of the Archangel.

What I did not like about Hush Hush. I utterly detested Vee. I wanted to beat her in the head with her heal and then shove her in a toilet. She was the most annoying character I have ever read and I could not understand how Nora could stand her. The constant plays for attention and drama were left me nauseous. Vee was obviously Fitzpatrick’s attempt at comic relief, but I didn’t find her funny in the least. At first I believed Fitzpatrick was going for a Stiffler’s Mom type character – the one in Legally Blonde, you know she plays a manicurist or something, but she just came out all wrong.

I recommend this book. Young and Old alike.