A review by betonylark
Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick

2.0

This book started out a lot better than the first one...and everything went downhill from there. My biggest problem with it is once again Nora's behavior. She spent the majority of the book being a jerk for no good reason (not that I could see).

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For someone supposedly so very in love, she sure was quick to doubt Patch. Personally I didn't see any reason at all for her to doubt him. She didn't have any proof, just the word of Rixon who she didn't know half as well. (Course this is the same Nora who would automatically believe the girl she hates when she says her mother was having an affair--seriously, what real person would believe someone like Marcie over their own mother?--so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Very quick to believe those she isn't fond of over those she loves most, this one.)

Patch irritated me a bit too, but Nora was much worse.

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If I were him, there wouldn't be any "yes let's get back together like nothing happened" at the end. I would dump her and look for a girl who wasn't downright cruel. I mean really, the things she did just to hurt him... *shakes head*

The main reason I'm giving this book two stars instead of one is that the plot was fairly decent (character issues aside) up until the end. The reason I dislike the ending is

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it was literally the same climax and resolution as book one. Technically it was a different character (though Rixon seems very Chauncey-like at the end, which is weird since he struck me as a completely different kind of character in book one) and a different location (though the way Fitzpatrick explains it makes it feel very similar to book one as well). Overall, the same thing happens as book one.

So basically, Crescendo doesn't offer anything that Hush, Hush didn't already cover. It's nothing new.

After Hush, Hush I was content to finish the series. After Crescendo I think I've seen enough. I'm too bored with everything now to continue -_-

P.S. I still don't get the titles. "Hush, Hush" had nothing to do with the book itself. "Crescendo" makes even less sense, because the sequel didn't crescendo at all. Kind of odd but whatever XD