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A review by seraphjewel
Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
4.0
Okay, before I explain why I gave this book such a high rating, all true fans of the book should stop reading. Because I actually think this book is terrible. But I still really liked it.
You know how some people have terrible movies they still enjoy watching? Like The Room or Trolls 2 or something. It's horrible but they can't help laughing and enjoying just how bad it is. That's what this book was for me. I'm sure it was unintentional, but this book was so awful and so insane that I found myself entertained by just how bad it was. I sped through because I was having fun with this car crash on fire of a book.
One thing to keep in mind about this book is that none of it exists in any realm of reality. No biology class would focus on sex education, nor would the teacher ask you what you looked for in a "potential mate" or make you lie down on a table to take your blood pressure. No carnival ride has such intricate paintings on it; no one would leave a student alone after hearing there was a bomb threat in a school; no cop would speak to a minor in the way these guys spoke to Nora. Any time I wanted to get mad at some unbelievable thing a person was saying or doing, I reminded myself of this and I just smiled and kept reading. And given that fallen angels can alter a human's perception of reality and plant thoughts/ideas in their heads, it's anybody's guess how much of this was actually happening and was in the characters' control. Like I said, it's absolutely insane.
The romance was a joke. Again, this is not reality, and I sincerely hope that readers didn't walk away from this believing it's romantic for a guy to constantly sexually harass you and ignore you when you tell him to leave, go away, you don't like them, you want nothing to do with them, you make them uncomfortable, you're afraid of them, et cetera. And somehow with all these uneasy feelings about him and believing him to be dangerous, Nora is attracted to him and cares if he has a girlfriend and fantasizes about kisses him. Because that makes sense. But even if I want to accept that, I did not get a sense for their chemistry outside of Nora saying something like "Leave me alone" and Patch saying "LOL NOPE" or saying something sexual/creepy. How romantic...?
In all seriousness, there are some legitimately good things about this book. It's well-written. Sure it's slow-going and for about half the book you wouldn't even know it's supposed to be about fallen angels, but the writing style did keep me engaged and made me want to keep reading. The prologue was haunting and the scene where Nora was attacked in her car was frightening. Most the rest of it is so bizarre and unbelievable that it's fascinating to go through.
So, yeah, I liked it. But in a "so bad it's good" kind of way. It's crazy, it's bizarre, it's the most gloriously terrible book I've read in a while.
You know how some people have terrible movies they still enjoy watching? Like The Room or Trolls 2 or something. It's horrible but they can't help laughing and enjoying just how bad it is. That's what this book was for me. I'm sure it was unintentional, but this book was so awful and so insane that I found myself entertained by just how bad it was. I sped through because I was having fun with this car crash on fire of a book.
One thing to keep in mind about this book is that none of it exists in any realm of reality. No biology class would focus on sex education, nor would the teacher ask you what you looked for in a "potential mate" or make you lie down on a table to take your blood pressure. No carnival ride has such intricate paintings on it; no one would leave a student alone after hearing there was a bomb threat in a school; no cop would speak to a minor in the way these guys spoke to Nora. Any time I wanted to get mad at some unbelievable thing a person was saying or doing, I reminded myself of this and I just smiled and kept reading. And given that fallen angels can alter a human's perception of reality and plant thoughts/ideas in their heads, it's anybody's guess how much of this was actually happening and was in the characters' control. Like I said, it's absolutely insane.
The romance was a joke. Again, this is not reality, and I sincerely hope that readers didn't walk away from this believing it's romantic for a guy to constantly sexually harass you and ignore you when you tell him to leave, go away, you don't like them, you want nothing to do with them, you make them uncomfortable, you're afraid of them, et cetera. And somehow with all these uneasy feelings about him and believing him to be dangerous, Nora is attracted to him and cares if he has a girlfriend and fantasizes about kisses him. Because that makes sense. But even if I want to accept that, I did not get a sense for their chemistry outside of Nora saying something like "Leave me alone" and Patch saying "LOL NOPE" or saying something sexual/creepy. How romantic...?
In all seriousness, there are some legitimately good things about this book. It's well-written. Sure it's slow-going and for about half the book you wouldn't even know it's supposed to be about fallen angels, but the writing style did keep me engaged and made me want to keep reading. The prologue was haunting and the scene where Nora was attacked in her car was frightening. Most the rest of it is so bizarre and unbelievable that it's fascinating to go through.
So, yeah, I liked it. But in a "so bad it's good" kind of way. It's crazy, it's bizarre, it's the most gloriously terrible book I've read in a while.