Fallen angels? Nephilims? These were some unknown words for Nora Grey, the main character and narrator of Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick.

Hush Hush is a young adult fantasy novel about a sixteen year-old girl named Nora Grey; while Nora is in her biology class seating next to her best friend, Vee Sky, the teacher makes a new seating chart where everyone will have a new partner and she is now seated along the new boy named Patch Cipriano. Nora’s first assignment with her new partner is to answer some questions about each other, but she is scared of him since he knows personal stuff about her that no one knows and they have never even talked. At first he seems like a creeper, because sometimes Nora discovers Patch in places where she is and stalks her while she is with other friends such as Jules and Elliot.

She does not have a clue of how her life will change forever just because of the new seating arrangement. Strange things start to happen but she does not know how to describe these events to someone. 

Time goes through and she just wants to know more and more about Patch’s mysterious past and she will do anything to know about it, even things that will risk her life, such as going to the school’s office where all the personal information of the students is just to know about Patch’s home. To her surprise, she finds nothing about him, it is as if he had never existed in this world. While she is learning little by little about Patch’s past and getting more and more confused, she feels attracted to Patch and eventually falls in love with him, but she does not know how many troubles she will have because of this love.

This is an amazing book that grabs immediately your attention, your heart and mind since the beginning. You can feel the mystery all around the book from the beginning when Patch tells Nora about  his father death and about her personal fears and they have never talked to each other; or when Nora finds Patch's lantern in his car with what she thinks is blood, You can feel the excitement in scenes like when Nora discovers almost at the end who is the person that follows her and scares her, or when she discovers the secret about Elliot. It is all about the mystery that makes you want to continue reading to know more and more, many problems unsolved and mysteries arising page by page with all the love, the mystery and the fears around them.

I think this book is perfect for everyone, but I think is better for teens over 14 but younger than 20 since it has some scenes that are slightly related to kissing and violence like when Patch goes with Nora to the motel for help, nothing happens there, but they kiss once, or the scene where Dabria enters Nora’s house and wants to burn it and some fights like the one Chauncey is in. These reasons are why some people may think it may not be appropriate for small children or parents may think it is not okay that they read that kind of stuff. I don't recommend it for people older than 20 because the characters are around 16 years old and it is about teen issues and most of them have to do with love or school so it can be very boring since they are not interested in teen books anymore. This book is perfect if you like mystery books, it is a combination of love(forbidden love), mystery and fiction, you even learn about some religious things related to angels, nephilim, fallen angels and about Cheshvan, it is totally interesting and attention grabbing and I would recommend it to everyone, it is worth reading.

I have a little idea about where the story will go after the book ends, since I already started reading the prologue for Crescendo( the second book of the saga) I know that the death of Nora's father will be explained around the book. I also know it will be very sressful while reading it because some friends that already read it have told me.

I think the story will go to more problems and more characters and something with Marcie Millar since I have heard many people that already read the saga hate her, I infer she will make a reapparence and will cause trouble between Patch and Nora. Nora will know more things about Patch's past and people will try to confuse her and make her be inconfident of him.
The future of this character's lives is trouble because they are not meant to be together and many people don't want them together; also I think Nora will start not trusting Patch since I think she will start knowing more things about his past and she will be scared of it.
I really can't think about our life in this book.

I can't even compare this book with other books I have read! It is the most amazing book I have read in my life! It was awesome! The trama, the characters, each single detail is amazing. 
Before of this book I didn't liked a lot to read, I read if it was for a class or for homework, but I wasn't a person that liked to buy books or just to read because I was bored, but after Hush Hush, I find reading a very good way to spend time, now I like to read and I know have a list of books  I want to read before the year ends. Obviously Crescendo, Silence and Finale(the continue of the saga of Hush Hush) are on my plans!

I think it wouldn't be a great movie because when they make movies out of books, they finish taking out many important details from the book,  also the movie becomes popular and you are like: hey but the book is thousand times more interesting, and it is the original one! The sad thing is that the casting for Hush Hush already started.... I wouldn't like Hush Hush to be a movie, it is a great book, but in a movie I feel that they will ruin it, but well, the plans are already there. I hope they don't change a bit of the book, because it is so perfect the way it is

When the movie releases I will want to watch it the same day! I think I will feel like angry and sad, mostly because people will be like omg is such a great move and I will be like -.- you should read the book, but they will never do it.

"Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end."-Tryon Edwards
I think Hush Hush's has a lot of themes, depending like on the situation you are living or depending on the situations you have lived you identify or like "see" one bigger than another one. For me the biggest theme is that sometimes we want what can hurt us. 

The characters combine to develop the theme because since here Nora wants Patch even though his plan was to kill her and she knows it, she wants him. One character can't be "safely" with the other one, but that other one likes him and loves him and feels so attached to him even though he is dangerous, so they combine to form one of the themes(the most important I think) around them.

The setting combines to develop the theme because some events happen because of nature or distances and stuff like that, and if the setting was another one, many events wouldn't happen or wouldn't be known and maybe the theme will not be that clearly.

The point of view combines to develop the theme because since the narrator is the one who likes and wants who can hurt(Patch) her and even kill her, she says everything she thinks and feel and that way you realize about forbidden love and how she wants him so mucho even though she knows it can end hurting her or she can even finish dead.


The symbolism combines to develop the theme because with the symbolism of many things you realize things before they happen, like they tell you what will happen but in a kind of masked way, so when you reach that part of the book you are like: Oooh!!! that is the same that happened in this or stuff like that.

The narrator is Nora Gray, the main character. The narrator’s point of view affect the work because since she is the main character and the one who wants to know the secrets, she is the one living all the fear and mystery.
Her thoughts and feelings are the most important in the story, if it was narrated by another person, or the narrator wasn't a character it would be very boring. Most of the events are critical and make you want to continue reading because of Nora's thoughts that you read, if they weren't there, you wouldn't understand many things and you wouldn't want to continue reading it because it would be very boring and you would miss a lot of important things and events.

Nora is the one living everything, the story is about her and Patch, so it could be narrated also by Patch, but since he is the one that is "mysterious" the story will not be so critical and dramatic, but it would be interesting to know what he thinks about everything.

The author of Hush Hush, Becca Fitzpatrick, uses symbolism many times in the book.
One example of symbolism in this book is the archangel; the archangel is a roller coaster that doesn't inspires confidence. The archangel looks century old, and it was made of wood; it had artwork painted on the sides. The car where Patch decided to seat with Nora had 4 paintings. The first painting were horned demons ripping the wings off a screaming male angel; I think the symbolism of this painting is that is exactly what happens to Patch and is explained a little in the prologue. The next painting showed the wingless angel perched on a headstone watching children play from a distance; this is exactly what says in the prologue, that Chauncey and a farmer´s daughter were playing, and then Chauncey saw something on a headstone far away. In the third painting, the wingless angel stood close to the children and crfooked a finger to one litle green-eyed girl. In the 4th painting, the wingless angel drifted through the girl's body like a ghost, her smile suddenly was gone and her eyes were black. 
I think this car is a symbol for Patch's hystory, it demostrate us all the story, starting from what is on the prologue, then it continues with other scenes, I think this scenes represent something that will happen in the book further.

I choose this book because many people have told me about it, they have told me that is is super interesting and that it is a very good book. I was planning to read it since the beginning of the year, so I think this is a perfect time to do it. When I read the back of the book I thought maybe it would be interesting. Everyone that  I know that has read this book has read it at least twice because they love it, so I think it will be very good.