Silence - Becca Fitzpatrick

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Goodreads says: Nora Grey can't remember the past five months of her life. After the initial shock of waking up in a cemetery and being told that she has been missing for weeks - with no one knowing where she was or who she was with - she tried to get her life back on track. Go to school, hang out with her best friend, Vee, and dodge mom's creepy new boyfriend.

But there is this voice in the back of her head, an idea that she can almost reach out and touch. Visions of angel wings and unearthly creatures that have nothing to do with the life she knows.

And this unshakable feeling that a part of her is missing.

Then Nora crosses paths with a sexy stranger, whom she feels a mesmerizing connection to. He seems to hold all the answers...and her heart. Every minute she spends with him grows more and more intense until she realizes she could be falling in love. Again.

 

NOPE. I still detest the characters in this book. See, this book had potential. It really did, but then Crescendo happened, and apparently the IQ in everyone around this town was dropped to like -300 points or something because god only knows how anyone's survived up until this part. 

Nora has amnesia, and from that, she resumes her dangerous activities at night AKA sneaking around the fallen angels and creepy people that reside in her town that want to kill her. After her release from the hospital, she does what she normally does: get herself into potentially life-ending trouble/danger. I really wanted to see if the five months were erased would've at least made her smarter, or at least less eager to jump in the jaws of death. But sadly, it's as if her entire personality stayed save for memories. Now correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't amnesia make you lose both your personality/memories because you aren't the same person?  *shakes head*

 

Patch became.... tolerable. But I still wanted to ram him into the ground with a pair of knives. Again more cliched drama happens as do threats but at least Patch and Nora have shed their stupidity (somewhat) that helps them face their reality. Maybe the series is looking up for me, but I'm now determined to read Finale just to make sure this pain to my reading soul was worth it.

 

Do I Recommend It? From the library, yes. 

Crescendo - Becca Fitzpatrick

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Goodreads says: 

Nora Grey's life is still far from perfect. Surviving an attempt on her life wasn't pleasant, but at least she got a guardian angel out of it. A mysterious, magnetic, gorgeous guardian angel. But despite his role in her life, Patch has been acting anything but angelic. He's more elusive than ever (if that's possible) and what's worse, he seems to be spending time with Nora's archenemy, Marcie Millar.

Nora would have hardly noticed Scott Parnell, an old family friend who has moved back to town, if Patch hadn't been acting so distant. Even with Scott's totally infuriating attitude, Nora finds herself drawn to him - despite her lingering feelings that he is hiding something.

If that weren't enough, Nora is haunted by images of her murdered father, and comes to question whether her Nephilim bloodline has anything to do with his death. Desperate to figure out what happened, she puts herself in increasingly dangerous situations to get the answer. But maybe some things are better left buried, because the truth could destroy everything - and everyone - she trusts.

I don't know why I continued on with this series. Maybe it's because I hope that the version of Patch everyone's in love with and the one I'm reading are two separate entities. Alas, that isn't the case. If anything, Crescendo has taught me something I clearly needed cementing in my brain: the "bad boys" can only go so far in terms of date-ability before I wanna cut them.

I read Crescendo around the same time many bad reviews popped up. I thought they were exaggerating. As it turned it out, it was the stone cold truth. Everything in here was like a beginner's guide of How to Stalk the Person You "Love". 

It was all very melodramatic and at times I thought I was watching A Very Paranormal Soap Opera unfold. And it wasn't a fun kind of soap. This Scott dude was also put in there just because I think someone told Fitzpatrick that a love triangle would work.  Uh, maybe it would have if the romance between Nora and Patch was a bit stronger and I liked it (which btdubs, I actually dreaded) so nope on Scott being put in for tension.

 And also, what was up with him near the end? Like, the dude's characterization just did a 180 from "slightly creepy dude in your neighborhood" to a guy that elicits the "jesUS CHRIST, WALK WITH THE MACE IN YOUR PALM" kinda mood.

Mainly, the book was too boring, and some cliches were thrown in there like there was no tomorrow. It was too bland that napkin doodling was the main thing I was doing while I read Crescendo.

Do I Recommend This? Nope. Save your money for something better. Getting it from the library would be better. It definitely varies from person to person, as I know many who loved it and many who hated it so, buy at your own risk.

Angels and Twilight-y-ness

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Hello bloggers, now that I've gotten back to my regular schedule of bloggy-bloggingness (it's a word if I said so!) and I think y'all have had enough of the 'good' reviews to get some 'meh' reviews.

Today's post: Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick

Well Goodreads says: For Nora Grey, romance was not part of the plan. She's never been particularly attracted to the boys at her school, no matter how much her best friend, Vee, pushes them at her...until Patch comes along.

With his easy smile and eyes that seem to see inside her, Nora is drawn to him against her better judgment, but after a series of terrifying encounters, Nora's not sure whom to trust. Patch seems to be everywhere she is, and to know more about her than her closest friends. She can't decide whether she should fall into his arms or run and hide. And when she tries to seek some answers, she finds herself near a truth that is far more unsettling than anything Patch makes her feel.
For Nora is right in the middle of an ancient battle between the immortal and those that have fallen - and when it comes to choosing sides, the wrong choice will cost her life.

My review: Well, Hush, Hush was currently following the whole 'fallen angels' trend like a bit ago and me, being a stark raving angel fan was like "I Need to Read this!". And so I read it, and was like OHMYGOD but my friends, that wasn't my reviewer side; that was my fangirl side and that was BAD. So a few weeks ago, I decided to re-read it and no offense to the author, It made me want to hurl, quite frankly. I mean, Becca Fitzpatrick has okay characters that need some serious fleshing out, and they need to have some growth. But they had none, and they all fit stereotypes.

Vee - was a bit off the voluptuous side..... I'm sorry what?! Vee was fat but you know she had some damn great scene time unlike Nora. Plus, she was damn entertaining.

Nora - was about the equivalent of a doormat and deader than a door nail. She also lied, chronically and kept running back to the psycho who wanted to kill her. I thought of her as Bella 2.0 but you know, at least Nora didn't become a doormat for months after Patch broke it off. She just went to another psycho. This girl has some bad mojo.

Patch - dear god, there's something very wrong with this boy. You've all heard of those controlling-but- sensitive-in-the-gooey-center boys. Patch skipped that and went to borderline psycho like Michael Myers from Halloween. 'Nuff said.

the other characters were the stereotypes and I, being faithful to any series, desperately read on,because I hoped it would get better. It didn't; it just fugged with my mind that I am still reading the series, out of morbid curiosity, to see how this all ends and Patch and Nora's relationship is mostly lust, and it's eh. I'd like it if the characters at least developed the relationship but it's more of a BOOM, hate, BOOM, lust and repeat, and the Patch/Nora relationship, if fleshed out, would be amazing, but for now, I'll stick with my Aura/Logan/Zachary relationship.

HOWEVER, what I did like about this book: well, the mystery and the climax were the only things I like that it had going because the romance part sorely missed its mark. It makes me want to cry in my coffee.

I recommend checking this book out from the library instead of buying it (but that's just me) and I really think some people might like it. It just wasn't my cup of tea.

Rating: 6/10

P.S Becca Fitzpatrick is a quite awesome person as I talk to her on Twitter. Just FYI.