Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Started this last night. Within the VERY FIRST PARAGRAPH I discovered a small annoyance. Our man (who later turns out to be "the baddie") is finishing up a tryst with a peasant wench by a river in olden days France. He rips a silver buckle off his SHOE and gives it to her as, well, compensation I guess, and then proceeds to pull on his BOOTS and heads home to the chateau. I'm not just being picky. Pulling a silver buckle off a shoe to give to someone presents a very specific picture, particularly if your man is a French Duc (that's French for duke) in 1565 France.
Otherwise, quite a nice, fun read, with a bit of nephilim lore thrown in from the edges. Although why a fallen angel, ageless, who has been around, like, forever, would think a high school girl who is slightly anaemic and the offspring of nephilim (although that doesn't seem to make her special in any particular way?) the best thing since sliced bread, is beyond me. Isn't it enough that the new boy in school likes the girl and they can both be all angsty about it, but he has to be a fallen angel too? Also, most of the tension was from our girl, Nora, not knowing exactly who or what Patch (fallen angel) was, and they never had time or place to talk about it. EXCEPT there were numerous times when Patch drove her home, either rescuing or just giving a lift, and apparently they never had a conversation in the car... they just "arrived" at her farmhouse..??
However, it was far less mind-numbing then Twilight, and I didn't want to slap Nora around quite as much as Bella. The End :)
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