Hush, Hush (Hush, Hush, #1)

by Becca Fitzpatrick

A sacred oath, a fallen angel, a forbidden love...This darkly romantic story features our heroine, Nora Grey, a seemingly normal teenage girl with her own shadowy connection to the Nephilim, and super-alluring bad boy, Patch, now her deskmate in biology class. Together they find themselves at the centre of a centuries-old feud between a fallen angel and a Nephilim...Forced to sit next to Patch in science class, Nora attempts to resist his flirting, though gradually falls for him against her better judgment. Meanwhile creepy things are going on with a mysterious stalker following her car, breaking into her house and attacking her best friend, Vi. Nora suspects Patch, but there are other suspects too - not least a new boy who has transferred from a different college after being wrongly accused of murdering his girlfriend. And he seems to have taken a shine to Nora...Love certainly is dangerous...and someone is going to have to make the ultimate sacrifice for it.

• ISBN10: 9861853723
• ISBN13: 9789861853727
• Publish Date: 1 October 2009
• Publish Status: Unknown
• Imprint: Gao Bao
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 304
• Language: Chinese

Reviews

[Leah]

Hush, Hush is Becca Fitzpatrick's debut novel but if I hadn't already know that, I wouldn't have guessed it in a million years. I, quite literally, could not put it down. After the creepy and mysterious Prologue, we're thrown straight into Nora Grey's life as she's paired with the mysterious Patch. I knew already that Patch was a fallen angel - the cover kind of gives it away - but I was interested to see how the relationship played out between Nora and Patch, and how Nora would find out about him being a fallen angel. The book is about more than that, though, and when a mysterious hooded figure begins pulling Nora's life apart and putting her in difficult and dangerous situations, I wasn't at all sure who it was that was behind it. Obviously there were a number of people it could have been, including badboy Patch and I had no idea who it was!

Hush, Hush is actually the first book I've read about angels. I know they're a hot topic in YA fiction at the minute, but mainly I've just read about vampires and regular people, and I was a bit hesitant about angels/fallen angels because who was to say I'd enjoy it? I was completely wrong to be worried, though, because fallen angels are actually interesting. I thought there would be a lot of backstory and a complicated history but the book was really straightforward with history only being used when necessary to explain things which was fine by me.

One thing I think Fitzpatrick excelled at throughout the book was building the suspense. The book is jam-packed full of it and it helped to keep the book flowing that's for sure. I did want Nora to confide in someone - Patch or Vee her best friend - about the hooded man following her because it was clear that person was intent on doing damage but the lack of Nora confessing about it just built the suspense all the more. The suspense was so bad I didn't know whether to put the book down for a bit or plough on nonetheless. I ploughed on nonetheless - what can I say I'm a sucker for suspense? - and it just kept building and building until it all exploded into a thrilling ending. I had guessed partly what was going on but for the most part I didn't guess at all.

Because Nora narrates the entire story, I (thankfully) warmed to her immediatly. When authors write the book that way, in the first person, it's imperative to like the narrator otherwise the story just doesn't work so I was happy to find that I loved Nora. When she first met Patch, although she acknowledged he had something about him, she didn't fall hopelessly in love with him right there and then, it took time and a heck of a lot of chemistry in between before she admitted she felt anything for him. Believe me, there was serious chemistry between the pair. Patch is the bad boy everyone is supposed to fall hopelessly in love with, and fall I did, despite his arrogance and cockiness. It actually endeared him to me more to be honest. He had his flaws, don't get me wrong, but he was just so charming you could forgive him anything. The chemistry between himself and Nora really pushed the book and I loved the way they sparked off each other. Another character I loved was Vee, Nora's best friend, she was a fab character and I hope we see more of her in the sequel.

As you can probably tell, I loved Hush, Hush. I didn't expect to love it as much as I did but I did, I adored it and could barely put it down. Everything was done perfectly, it drew me in easily at the beginning, the suspense built up from beginning to end with no let up during the middle of the book and the ending was stunning. It works well as a stand-alone, but a sequel is coming out in October so it obviously leaves us wanting more, too. It has it all; love, humour, fantastic characters and such suspensful suspense that I was dying to finish the book to see how it all ended! If you're a fantasy fan then this is one for you. I'm eagerly awaiting the sequel!

[Hixxup]

This was a damn good book, I picked it up and started reading it about 11:30pm and I just finished it about a quarter after 4am.

I loved the suspense and the slight action, and the sexual tension. OMG great frickin book

[dokie80]

nih buku di baca kilat. sehari aja kelar bacanya, bukan karena ceritanya yang menarik, tapi lebih karena penasaran. sampe setengah buku dibaca, masih ga jelas tentang apa ceritanya. jalan ceritanya lambat tapi banyak cerita yang menarik dan menghibur, terutama karena si Vee yang bandel dan demen ngomporin.

pas baca nih buku rasanya mirip banget sama twillight, bukannya nyamain vampir sama malaikat. tapi karena Nora mirip si Bella, yang jatuh cinta sama seseorang yang bukan manusia, dan karena itu jadi selalu dekat dengan bahaya. tapi ga kayak twillight, di Hush Hush, ga banyak action, ga banyak kekuatan supernatural, lebih banyak romance.

jujur aja, beli nih buku lebih karena covernya (keren bangettt), ga baca sinopsis nya. jadi sedikit kecewa karena ternyata ceritanya lebih tentang cinta (kirain tentang malaikat yang terluka, terus hidup bersama manusia, dst dst..:D). tapi bukan berarti bener2 ga suka nih buku :)

[Linda]

This is not at all my kind of book! The herione is TSTL, and the hero is as far from being a hero that it's not even funny. I also don't get books where there are parents being talked about, but those parents are never around to help their kids out!

[Jo]

Nora Grey lives the normal life of any teenager – that is until she gets a new biology partner, Patch. He’s rude, antagonising, and overly flirty, and Nora can’t stand him. What’s worse, he seems to show up where ever Nora goes, and knows more about her than anyone else. But what bothers Nora most is the strange attraction she has to him she can’t ignore no matter how she tries. But after several terrifying and unexplainable events take place which lead Nora to point the finger at Patch, she has to wonder if he’s dangerous as well as rude. Nora is determined to find out what’s going on, but the answers could be more than she bargained for, and could cost her her life.

Ever since I first the beautiful cover, I was intrigued by Hush, Hush. Then I saw several reviews, and I just knew this book would be amazing. Turns out I was right. This book is absolutely phenomenal!

I think it’s obvious where I’m going to start with this review; Patch. There’s a promotional banner for Hush, Hush making it’s round that says “Edward who? Meet Patch.” I couldn’t agree more. He is unbelievably sexy, flirty, and just utterly delicious – and that’s just personality wise. Everyone has their own imagination, and will visualise things differently, but this guy could not be better looking. Yes, he’s rude, he takes the mick out of Nora, and he deliberately tries to make her feel uncomfortable, but I think that makes him even more attractive because it’s not exactly malicious, he’s challenging her, and it’s awesome!

The storyline is just wow. Seriously, it’s amazing. The things that happen that you can find no explanation for, and trying to work out who has done what and why, will keep you turning the pages. You don’t get your answers until the end, but there’s so much going on, your interest won’t be lost. The action in Hush, Hush is similar to that in a teenage thriller, and is actually kind of scary; not in a horror way, but in a “oh my God, this could actually happen, and how on earth could there possibly be a way out of this?” way. It’s so good, you’ll be preparing to run in your own seat.

Nora is pretty much an every-girl. She’s just an ordinary teenager, and so is very easy to relate to. She’s also human, so mistakes are made that are just obvious to you as a reader. I’ve said before it’s similar to a teen thriller, and I’ll say it again; you know in movies, when someone hears a weird noise outside, so they leave to check it out, and you’re like “what are you doing?!”? That doesn’t happen in the book, but you have similar mistakes going on. This book would seriously make an amazing movie! Nora’s best mate, Vee, is fantastic. She’s confident, she’s flirty, and she pushes Nora to get herself out there. She’s also incredibly funny, and very brave. She’s just awesome.

I love the mythology of the fallen angels in this book, which I can’t get into here as it would spoil it. This being only the second book I’ve read about fallen angels, I don’t know much about fallen angel mythology, but what is used in the book sounds very unique and intriguing. There are some questions that don’t get answered, but the story is resolved, and the ending is fantastic. The unanswered questions, and the genius ending mean the chances of me picking up the sequel, Crescendo, next year are high. No, their better than that; I definitely will.

You know that feeling when you slide into a nice, hot bath after being out in the freezing cold? That’s what reading this book is like. I’m going to make a comparison here, not to storylines but to my reading habits. When I first discovered the Twilight saga last year, for several months, they were all I read, I just when right back to the beginning every time I finished Eclipse. If it weren’t for the fact that I have other books to read, Hush, Hush would become my new Twilight saga, and I would read it continually. I LOVE IT! I cannot wait for September next year when Crescendo is due. The only problem I had was that I read it in one day and now it’s over. I read it too fast, but that just shows how good it is! You need this book!