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breeann7 's review for:
Hush, Hush
by Becca Fitzpatrick
This is the second time I have read this book and quite frankly I can’t even believe I liked it so much the first time I read it. Granted there has been an 8 year gap between readings. Where was my brain...seduced by the cool looking cover???
Basic storyline is girl is stalked by two creepy creepy boys, who show up at her house, follow her around, know intimate details about her life, never listen to her, override her concerns, and basically dismiss her intellectually, while still trying to convince her they’re just flirting. She doubts her rationality. She’s repulsed and attracted at the same time. Nora’s best friend dismisses Elliot’s assault because the dude was having a bad day and was drunk. I spent this second read mentally yelling at Nora...run away! Every chapter had a guy doing some creepy or scary thing to one of the girls and the girls being weirded out but ultimately shrugging it off. I kept hoping Nora would put her boxing to use and just kick their ass.
*sarcastic voice* It’s all ok though cuz one of them is a good fallen angel so he gets a pass for his stalkery behavior. He was just trying to save the girl. It’s all for the greater good. *sarcastic voice end* Although honestly wasn’t Patch’s motivation just pure selfishness? Which was then followed up by another trope—the bad boy falling in love with his means to an end.
Can writers please stop dismissing bad, illegal, sexually harassing behavior from boys and men in fiction all in the name of some “bad boy” savior trope? Stop telling young readers this behavior is acceptable.
Other issues I had include all the weird adults. The cops who question Nora, were so over the top and frightening. If that had been me getting interrogated in my home like a homicide suspect on Law & Order I would’ve been seriously freaked out. Nora just brushes the whole thing off like it was normal adult behavior. All the kids had absent parents, odd teachers, etc...High school kids have fancy cars all of a sudden and buying apartments in some rinky dinky town in Maine and no adults seem to think that’s weird. AND the setting is a suburb town near Portland, MAINE! I found myself forgetting and assuming this was set in a much larger location where some of this behavior could be overlooked because there’s so many people and so much going on. That’s not the case, though.
The writing wasn’t all that fantastic, either. Everyone’s emotions were all over the place and would do instant 180s from one sentence to the next. It was jarring...I guess that could have been intentional... since it was like being in a teenagers head who just hit puberty and reading their diary.
Basic storyline is girl is stalked by two creepy creepy boys, who show up at her house, follow her around, know intimate details about her life, never listen to her, override her concerns, and basically dismiss her intellectually, while still trying to convince her they’re just flirting. She doubts her rationality. She’s repulsed and attracted at the same time. Nora’s best friend dismisses Elliot’s assault because the dude was having a bad day and was drunk. I spent this second read mentally yelling at Nora...run away! Every chapter had a guy doing some creepy or scary thing to one of the girls and the girls being weirded out but ultimately shrugging it off. I kept hoping Nora would put her boxing to use and just kick their ass.
*sarcastic voice* It’s all ok though cuz one of them is a good fallen angel so he gets a pass for his stalkery behavior. He was just trying to save the girl. It’s all for the greater good. *sarcastic voice end* Although honestly wasn’t Patch’s motivation just pure selfishness? Which was then followed up by another trope—the bad boy falling in love with his means to an end.
Can writers please stop dismissing bad, illegal, sexually harassing behavior from boys and men in fiction all in the name of some “bad boy” savior trope? Stop telling young readers this behavior is acceptable.
Other issues I had include all the weird adults. The cops who question Nora, were so over the top and frightening. If that had been me getting interrogated in my home like a homicide suspect on Law & Order I would’ve been seriously freaked out. Nora just brushes the whole thing off like it was normal adult behavior. All the kids had absent parents, odd teachers, etc...High school kids have fancy cars all of a sudden and buying apartments in some rinky dinky town in Maine and no adults seem to think that’s weird. AND the setting is a suburb town near Portland, MAINE! I found myself forgetting and assuming this was set in a much larger location where some of this behavior could be overlooked because there’s so many people and so much going on. That’s not the case, though.
The writing wasn’t all that fantastic, either. Everyone’s emotions were all over the place and would do instant 180s from one sentence to the next. It was jarring...I guess that could have been intentional... since it was like being in a teenagers head who just hit puberty and reading their diary.