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Another quick review, thanks to NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this book for honest feedback.
Hush is a very cute, very feel-good book with a plot that will keep you interested while also not being an emotional dead weight on your mind. I love finding cute light reads because they often come as such a breath of fresh air after reading some of the anxty YA's that I am so used to. I also find it so cute that Campbell wrote it for and loosely about her daughter and the other books in the series are written about her other daughters too, I wish my mum was that talented.
Personally, I feel as though this book should be aimed at a younger age range, maybe young teenagers, however the language used in the book may be inappropriate and this confused me. Five years ago I would have loved the writing style and the story but I think the age of the characters and the language they used is what would push this book into the YA category and I just felt conflicted about who the target market of the book would be.
The POV changes were very jumpy, some within the paragraphs and others changing by chapter, and all of them were confusing to me. A lot of the story I just had to kind of 'go along' with rather than fully understanding what was happening, and if someone were to ask me what all of the characters were called I would only be able to answer confidently with two because I have no idea what name belonged to what character or what their purpose was in the book. Especially those based in Blakely's native country, I barely grasped what was happening to their government or who the villains were and I think this was because that part of the story was written from there own perspective and as a result the details are lost as, obviously, the person telling us what was happening already knew what was happening. I do think that Campbell struggled getting parts of the story across and sometimes even sunk to having the characters speak to themselves to make sure that the reader knew what was happening rather than letting them draw their own conclusion.
I am looking forward to the release of the next book, which I hear is based around Halle, and I'm hoping to read it in between the major releases that I know are going to sever my soul and leave me emotionally and physically broken.
Hush is a very cute, very feel-good book with a plot that will keep you interested while also not being an emotional dead weight on your mind. I love finding cute light reads because they often come as such a breath of fresh air after reading some of the anxty YA's that I am so used to. I also find it so cute that Campbell wrote it for and loosely about her daughter and the other books in the series are written about her other daughters too, I wish my mum was that talented.
Personally, I feel as though this book should be aimed at a younger age range, maybe young teenagers, however the language used in the book may be inappropriate and this confused me. Five years ago I would have loved the writing style and the story but I think the age of the characters and the language they used is what would push this book into the YA category and I just felt conflicted about who the target market of the book would be.
The POV changes were very jumpy, some within the paragraphs and others changing by chapter, and all of them were confusing to me. A lot of the story I just had to kind of 'go along' with rather than fully understanding what was happening, and if someone were to ask me what all of the characters were called I would only be able to answer confidently with two because I have no idea what name belonged to what character or what their purpose was in the book. Especially those based in Blakely's native country, I barely grasped what was happening to their government or who the villains were and I think this was because that part of the story was written from there own perspective and as a result the details are lost as, obviously, the person telling us what was happening already knew what was happening. I do think that Campbell struggled getting parts of the story across and sometimes even sunk to having the characters speak to themselves to make sure that the reader knew what was happening rather than letting them draw their own conclusion.
I am looking forward to the release of the next book, which I hear is based around Halle, and I'm hoping to read it in between the major releases that I know are going to sever my soul and leave me emotionally and physically broken.