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goodreadsTitle: Hush, Hush
Author: Bekka Ajoy Fitzpatrick
Genre: YA, Paranormal
Rating: 6/10
# pages: 350
Date read: November, 2008
Summary: This darkly romantic story - alternately comic and terrifying - revolves around the conflict between two breeds of immortals - fallen angels and Nephilim, a race of half-angels, half-mortals - whose mythology Becca Fitzpatrick has translated from dusty biblical references to modern-day Maine. I like to think of it as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, set in foggy Portland instead of Sunnydale, and with a dangerously sexy fallen angel in place of a brooding ensouled vampire. But there's so much more to the story, and the characters inhabit a world all their own.
Our heroine is Nora Grey, a seemingly normal teenage girl with her own shadowy connection to the Nephilim, who falls for a hunky older boy in biology class, only to find herself at the center of a centuries-old feud between a fallen angel and a Nephil.
Review: I'm having a hard time deciding exactly what I think about this book. On one hand I read it in under 12 hours, so it definitely caught my attention, but on the other hand it almost repulsed me, because the "hero" was so unpleasant. It's obviously aimed at teenage girls, but I'm not sure I'd feel comfortable letting a (hypothetical) daughter of mine read it until she was quite a bit older, precisely because the hero throughout the most of the book is threatening and manipulative.
The book is well written however, and the characters real enough that you want to reach in and shake them for making such bad decisions. Turns out there's a reason for it all though, and the author manages to tie all threads together very nicely in the end.
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Author: Bekka Ajoy Fitzpatrick
Genre: YA, Paranormal
Rating: 6/10
# pages: 350
Date read: November, 2008
Summary: This darkly romantic story - alternately comic and terrifying - revolves around the conflict between two breeds of immortals - fallen angels and Nephilim, a race of half-angels, half-mortals - whose mythology Becca Fitzpatrick has translated from dusty biblical references to modern-day Maine. I like to think of it as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, set in foggy Portland instead of Sunnydale, and with a dangerously sexy fallen angel in place of a brooding ensouled vampire. But there's so much more to the story, and the characters inhabit a world all their own.
Our heroine is Nora Grey, a seemingly normal teenage girl with her own shadowy connection to the Nephilim, who falls for a hunky older boy in biology class, only to find herself at the center of a centuries-old feud between a fallen angel and a Nephil.
Review: I'm having a hard time deciding exactly what I think about this book. On one hand I read it in under 12 hours, so it definitely caught my attention, but on the other hand it almost repulsed me, because the "hero" was so unpleasant. It's obviously aimed at teenage girls, but I'm not sure I'd feel comfortable letting a (hypothetical) daughter of mine read it until she was quite a bit older, precisely because the hero throughout the most of the book is threatening and manipulative.
The book is well written however, and the characters real enough that you want to reach in and shake them for making such bad decisions. Turns out there's a reason for it all though, and the author manages to tie all threads together very nicely in the end.
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