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Title | Hush, Hush
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Author | Becca Fitzpatrick
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Cover Art | James Porto
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Publisher | Simon & Shuster - 2009
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First Printing | Simon & Shuster - 2009
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Title | Crescendo
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Author | Becca Fitzpatrick
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Cover Art | James Porto
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Publisher | Simon & Shuster - 2010
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First Printing | Simon & Shuster - 2010
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Title | Silence
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Author | Becca Fitzpatrick
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Cover Art | James Porto
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Publisher | Simon & Shuster - 2011
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First Printing | Simon & Shuster - 2011
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Title | Finale
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Author | Becca Fitzpatrick
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Cover Art | James Porto
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Publisher | Simon & Shuster - 2012
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First Printing | Simon & Shuster - 2012
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Title | Dungeons of Langeais
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Author | Becca Fitzpatrick
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Cover Art | ---
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Publisher | Running Press Teens - 2010
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First Printing | Running Press Teens - 2010
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Category | Young Adult
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Warnings | None
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Main Characters | Nora Grey, Patch, Vee, Marcie, Scott, Chauncey
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Main Elements | Angels
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Website | ---
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 Hush, Hush
When Nora and Patch are forced together as lab partners, Nora would rather fall to her death than put up with his elusive answers to her questions, his teasing, and his infuriatingly handsome face and hypnotizing eyes. It seems Patch was put on earth just to drive her crazy.
But before long, Nora's defenses start to break down as her curiosity about Patch heats up. Why does he always seem to be wherever she is and know exactly what she's thinking? How does he know what to say to both attract and repulse her? And what is up with those V-shaped scars on his chiseled back?
As their connection grows stronger, Nora's own life becomes increasingly fragile. Nora needs to decide: Is Patch the one who wants to do her harm or the one who will keep her safe? Has she fallen for one of the fallen?
Becca Fitzpatrick's New York Times bestselling debut is a page-turning leap onto the unknown world of fallen angels. Do you have someone to catch you?
Crescendo
Nora Grey's life is still far from perfect. Surviving an attempt on her life wasn't pleasant, but at least she got a guardian angel out of it. A mysterious, magnetic, gorgeous guardian angel. But despite his role in her life, Patch has been acting anything but angelic. He's more elusive than ever (if that's possible) and what's worse, he seems to be spending time with Nora's archenemy, Marcie Millar.
Nora would have hardly noticed Scott Parnell, an old family friend who has moved back to town, if Patch hadn't been acting so distant. Even with Scott's totally infuriating attitude, Nora finds herself drawn to him - despite her lingering feelings that he is hiding something.
If that weren't enough, Nora is haunted by images of her murdered father, and comes to question whether her Nephilim bloodline has anything to do with his death. Desperate to figure out what happened, she puts herself in increasingly dangerous situations to get the answer. But maybe some things are better left buried, because the truth could destroy everything - and everyone - she trusts.
Silence
Nora Grey can't remember the past five months of her life. After the initial shock of waking up in a cemetery and being told that she has been missing for weeks - with no one knowing where she was or who she was with - she tried to get her life back on track. Go to school, hang out with her best friend, Vee, and dodge mom's creepy new boyfriend.
But there is this voice in the back of her head, an idea that she can almost reach out and touch. Visions of angel wings and unearthly creatures that have nothing to do with the life she knows.
And this unshakable feeling that a part of her is missing.
Then Nora crosses paths with a sexy stranger, whom she feels a mesmerizing connection to. He seems to hold all the answers...and her heart. Every minute she spends with him grows more and more intense until she realizes she could be falling in love. Again.
Finale
Nora and Patch thought their troubles were behind them. Hank is gone and they should be able to put his ugly vendetta to rest. But in Hank's absence, Nora has become the unwitting head of the Nephilim and must finish what Hank began. Which ultimately means destroying the fallen angels - destroying Patch.
Nora will never let that happen, so she and Patch make a plan: lead everyone to believe they have broken up, and work the system from the inside. Nora will convince the Nephilim that they are making a mistake in fighting the fallen angels, and Patch will find out everything he can from the opposing side. They will end this war before it can even begin.
But the best-laid plans often go awry. Nora is put through the paces in her new role and finds herself drawn to an addictive power she never anticipated.
As the battle lines are drawn, Nora and Patch must confront the differences that have always been between them and either choose to ignore them or let them destroy the love they have always fought for.
Oh my, where do I start. If you thought Twilight set a bad example, this one is far, far worse. I mean here we have a female protagonist whose gut is telling her this guy is dangerous. But for whatever reason, she keeps agreeing to hang out with him, and not like, you know, at the local coffee shop. Oh, no...she goes to the pool hall. She has this sense that he wants to kill her...and she is RIGHT, he actually does want to kill her (till true love kicks in and he's all over himself trying to protect her).
Fine, so he goes from potential murderer to guardian angel. But in the next book, its all about her not trusting him (to be fair, he wanted to kill her, did I mention that?). So every time he's seen with anything resembling a female of any species, she has a total flip out. She decides she'll return the favour and hang with another pretty boy who just rolled into town, even though her instincts are screaming at her that he's not good. This time he doesn't take her to a regular pool hall, he takes her to one where the patrons get into fights regularly and it's not unusual that someone ends up dead. But that's ok right, since her boyfriend is her guardian angel he will be obliged to rescue her and in the meantime she can show him how strong and brave she is and that she can take care of herself (*cough* taking care of yourself doesn't mean throwing yourself wantonly into danger to prove you can squirm your way out...and in her case she can't get out on her own and needs to be rescued, repeatedly).
Girls, if you're instincts are screaming at you that this guy is no good, walk the other way. When the bad guy falls madly in love with you and turns out to be your guardian angel? That's call fiction, and unrealistic fiction at that. Your actual soulmate won't make you worry in the back of your mind if he's murderous intentions, he won't insult you to your face, he won't drag you to dangerous places to show off how tough he is, and he won't lie to you with every second sentence he speaks, and he won't literally mess with your mind (Fallen and Nephilim can get inside your heads and change your thoughts). And if the only thing keeping your eyes on him is his sculpted abs...that's lust, not love, get over it.
Thus for two whole books I was gagging over the fact that the only motivation this twit of a girl had was to spite her boyfriend (who wasn't doing anything wrong, though admitedly wasn't in a position to explain exactly what he was doing) and/or hang out with bad boys because she was embarassed by her good girl image. Sigh. *bangs head on desk repeatedly*
In the third book she has amnesia and the first two books never happened. This is so cliched and only in rare cases do I find this is handled well (e.g. Corwin in Zelazny's Amber). So...say you were kidnapped and no one knew where you were for several months, including you. You get home from the hospital. What do you do at 2 in the morning on the very first night after escaping what must have been a horrible experience? You sneak out of the house alone and hang out in the cemetary where you were found, right? I mean you haven't even been home for more than a handful of hours you need to put a giant flashing light over your head "Kidnap me again, I'm an idiot and I never learn". The one thing I can say about this third book is that her reasons for doing stupid things improved, it was no longer to piss off her boyfriend (she doesn't remember him) but to find out what happened to her and to protect her mom from the creepy guy she started dating while she was missing.
And by the time I hit the fourth book I was thinking...am I re-reading Twilight? I won't say exactly what happened in the fourth book out our brain-cell deprived protagonist but it was essentially the EXACT SAME THING that happened in the Twilight series. I'm not saying one series copied the other but there are so many similarities...but for what it's worth, this fourth book was the best, with lots of twists and turns and an epic battle. She's (mostly) gotten to trust her boyfriend, though she still has the occasional regression where it's "don't tell me what to do"...so she goes ahead and gets addicted to a drug because she didn't like her boyfriend trying to protect her...sigh.
Hmm, but is like, EVERY FREAKING PERSON in that town related to the Nephilim in some way? What's the chance that some sleepy town in Maine would have an apocalyptic battle that will change the course of events for Nephilim, Fallen Angels and Archangels? Like, aren't there any of those beings in like, you know, Europe? Or Africa? Or Asia? There was an army collected in Maine but if they had pulled in all Nephilim and all the Fallen, then that town would have quadrupled in size, SOMEONE would have noticed. And of course our special snowflake protagonist could do things no one has ever done before too. Like not a single Nephilim or Fallen ever considered ordering animals around, really?!? So while this was the most interesting of the books, I spent about half the time with an eyebrow raised, unconvinced.
There was some interesting world building, but nothing, absolutely nothing, could make up for the stupidest heroine in the history of YA literature.
The last story I managed to find on OpenLibrary in the collection Kiss Me Deadly. For what it's worth, there wasn't any kissing in it. It shows Chauncey trying to avoid getting possessed during a Cheshvan in the 1700's and as such was kind of enjoyable read.
Now that I think about it, there weren't any redeemable characters really. The fallen were evil, and cruel to the Nephilim they bind by oaths. The nephilim in turn user their powers to take advantage of regular humans. And the few humans about were mostly annoying and stupid. Even the archangels were uncaring and cruel or outright corrupted. There wasn't anyone to actually root for! Which is why at the end, when I guess everyone nearly wiped each other out, it made for a more satisfying ending, the torture of reading this series could finally stop.
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