RATING GUIDE:
5 – A keeper!
4 – Very good
3 – Passable
2 – I’d rather read
a telephone book
1 – An absolute bomb.
Read at your own risk!
Hush, Hush really
seemed very interesting at the beginning … provocative book cover, intriguing
beginning … unfortunately, as in the other books I’ve come across, Hush,
Hush is one of those books where the cover is better than what’s
inside.
What we get
after the interesting book cover and beginning is essentially a long,
slow-developing story about a girl (Nora) who falls in love with a fallen angel
(Patch), whose only hope of redemption is her death. In fact, it’s only when you go past Chapter 20 that the plot
truly begins to advance. Before you get
to that part, however, you are treated to a loooong (as in, when will it ever
end?) flirtation between Nora and Patch.
Unfortunately, the flirtation reads like it should have been written for
a steamy Harlequin romance instead of a paranormal romance for young
adults. The way it was written, I was
actually surprised the two DIDN’T get it on!
Fitzpatrick’s
story/concept does seem interesting and exciting, and it does appear towards
the end of the story. I wasn’t too
thrilled with the way it was written, though.
My impression is that Fitzpatrick was too caught up in her
narrative/descriptions that it was too late when she realized she was running
out of writing space and had to move the plot along before she reached her
maximum word count. Sadly, this lack of
prioritization might have also resulted in a lack of character
development. I didn’t find anything in
Nora or Patch to like or empathize with.
They both seemed flat and uni-dimensional, as opposed to Nora’s best
friend Vee, who seemed to have a little more character compared to the
two. Now, when the support character
seems to be more interesting than the heroine and the lead, then that’s a major
problem. I also believe Fitzpatrick
could have devoted more time in developing the action/suspense in the story,
instead of treating her readers to an excessively long (to the point of boring)
description of the flirting that goes on between her lead characters.
Thankfully, as I
already mentioned, the book does get fairly interesting towards the end of the
story. It would be interesting to find
out whether the story (as well as Fitzpatrick’s writing) gets more engaging and
enjoyable in the succeeding installments.
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