Hush Hush Book Review

Title: Hush, Hush

Author: Becca Fitzpatrick

Release Date:

Series: Yes

Rating: 1

Cliffhanger: Not Really


I don't think I can properly describe how much I did not like this book. There will be Spoilers below because I don't think I can do this review without them. I'll try to do a smaller one without spoilers and mark the point where they really start.

Hush Hush is about Nora Grey, an average girl with an average life until she meets Patch. Nora is drawn to Patch even though she doesn't know him well. After some scary things happen to Nora she is not sure who to trust and is frightened by how much Patch seems to know about her. When she goes looking for answers, she finds herself learning something stranger than she ever imagined. She gets caught in the middle of an ancient battle that may cost Nora her life.




Now I wasn't going to read this book at first. When I first came across this book the series wasn't finished and since I have no patience to wait years to finish reading a series, I wait for all the books to come out. I was really excited for a book with fallen angels. Paranormal, fantasy, etc. are always a lot of fun and there are not as many popular and/or well known angel books as there are vampires and werewolves. But I ended up reading some reviews that were not that good and decided that I did not want to read Hush Hush. And of course I forgot all about what I had decided when I was having a book lull and didn't know what to read. The series was finished, it was about fallen angels, and I didn't have anything else to read. So of course with no self control I got the book.


No major spoilers
This is sort of one of those insta-love stories where the main character and her love interest don't know anything about each other but by the end they would do anything for each other. Nora is also annoying and naïve. And I mean so stupid that when there are two flat tires in the car she was using her first thought is she ran over two nails. Never mind that the car hadn't been moved since it was driven to that spot and she is being followed by someone trying to kill her.

"I can't believe it!" I said. "I drove over two nails?"

Nora and Patch had a very confusing "relationship" and I put it in quotes because to me they didn't have one at all. The summary on the book implies that they fall in love and that is a big part of the book but I just did not get that. Nora and Patch didn't seem to have any kind of real conversation about anything important or informative about each other until close to the end of the book. Sure they were lab partners in a class but that didn't help the narrative move in any direction.


The book is supposedly about fallen angels but angels aren't even really mentioned until about 60% into the book. When they are mentioned it is mainly the name of a roller coaster ride and a nickname and a really bad article. Hush Hush also has too many villains. It takes away from what little story there is by having to keep track of too many stuff.




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Nora was one of the worst characters I have ever read about. She is the girl in the horror movie that you yell don't go in there run away. At every moment she was doing or thinking something stupid. Nora and Patch meet in their science class when the assigned seating is changed and they become lab partners. While Nora is drawn to Patch he is a mystery. Nora's idea is to investigate and find out more about him. When trying to find out more about Patch Nora decides to talk to people at his job. But of course she can't just simply ask she has to make it complicated. What she does is arrange with Vee to go to his work, at a restaurant, then she goes to the bathroom to change into a more revealing outfit and a WIG. Yes she put on a wig! Her plan was to change so no one recognized her (like anyone would care) and flirt with the bartender for information. And of course the bartender happens to be a 30 something guy and Patch catches her.

"I was forced to accept that maybe now want the time to rely on the logical half of my brain."

"With my heart thundering, I jumped on the first conclusion that presented itself."

And her relationship with Patch wasn't even a real relationship. She doesn't really know anything about Patch, hasn't had any conversation of substance with him, can't get any real answers from him, thinks he is stalking her, thinks he might have attacked her friend Vee, is outright scared of him, and thinks he might have beat up mean girl Marcia the night before and still she goes out on a date with him! Patch was trying to kill Nora, at first. I mean he was always mean to her and she was still drawn to him for no reason.

"You're giving me too much credit. It was all you, Nora. If your mind wasn't so weak, I couldn't have done a thing. Am I making you feel bad? Is it discouraging to know that out of all the minds I've invaded, yours tops the list as easiest? And most fun."

And Nora's best friend Vee was just as bad if not worse. At first I could see that Nora's best friend Vee was going to fill the obligatory quirky best friend role. After a while she just got annoying. And what king of best friend keeps pushing you towards a guy that scares you. And I mean that literally like Nora stated at one point that Patch out right scares her. Vee has no regard for Nora's well being. Vee doesn't even seem to care and makes excuses for someone, another person who ends up scaring Nora, manhandling Nora.

“He  dragged me out the front door and shoved me against the house.” “But he was drunk, right?” “Does it matter?” I snapped. “Well, he has a lot going on. I mean, he was wrongly accused of being messed up in some girl’s suicide, and he was forced to switch schools. If he hurt you—and I’m not justifying what he did, by the way—maybe he just needs . . . counseling, you know?” “If he hurt me?” “He was wasted. Maybe—maybe he didn’t know what he was doing. Tomorrow he’s going to feel horrible.”

At around 60% the book finally starts to talk about fallen angels. Nora had seen Patch's back with his scars and then later that night while talking to Vee. Vee asks "was he an angel" as in did he try anything on their "date" so all of a sudden its like OMG angel, Patch has angel scars, I'll look up angel scars and find a really stupid article that will put me on the path to learning the truth.

"I crammed everything I’d read into a mental folder and filed it away. And stamped SCARY on the outside of the folder."

And on top of all the other crazy and stupid stuff that happens in the book there are not one but four bad guys. Yes at one point or another there are four people that want Nora dead. It's bad enough that a book about fallen angels barely has any fallen angels in it but trying to keep track of who is stalking, attacking, and or trying to kill Nora at any given point is exhausting. Since Nora is always jumping to conclusions and there are so many villains the story drags from all the things that Nora has to investigate.