Hi guys, it's Filippa! Last time I posted an entry it was about my thoughts of Crescendo, the second book in the Hush, Hush series. This time I'm doing a book review of Silence, the third book in the series. I know that it's been more than a week since that, and Silence is only about 300 pages. I'm not the kind of person who wants to make excuses, but here's my excuse this time; we're reading a book in english class in school and we're supposed to read about 100 pages per week, and it's a really boring book. So I'm kind of struggling to work my way through that book.
But back to the subject.
Silence begins with a prologue about Hank Millar and Patch. Patch is making a deal with Hank, that if he lets Nora go he will let Hank rip of his wings. What I really liked about the prologue was that you kind of understood what was going on, but still there was a bit of a mystery going on there too. In the end of Crescendo there was kind of a cliffhanger when Hank suddenly appeared, and then Patch told Nora to run. But the prologue of Silence begins a while after, so you never really got to know what happened after Hank's men grabbed Patch and tried to get Nora too.
After the prologue chapter one begins with Nora waking up on a graveyard and she doesn't remember anything since April. So when she finally sees someone on the graveyard and talks to him and he tells her it's September she, of course, thinks he is lying.
After that the police (assistant Basso) finds her and takes her to the hospital. And since it was in June that Nora disappeared they think it's weird that her memory block goes all the way back to April, but the doctors blame it on the trauma she's been through (even though they don't know what exactly it is she's been through).
When Nora gets out of the hospital (now she knows that it actually is September) her mother and Vee are trying to fill her in on what's happened during the summer break and what happened before she disappeared but that she doesn't remember either. But the thing is that she doesn't remember anything about Patch or fallen angels, nephilim or the archangels, so when she accidentally bumps into one she is very surprised when she hear them talking about nephilim. She thinks that the word sounds familiar but can't really put it in place.
What Vee and her mother doesn't tell her is that she had a boyfriend: Patch. Instead she gets to know about Patch through Marcie, who tells Nora that Patch was her summer flirt, and not Nora's. She doesn't say anything about Nora's and Patch's relationship, just that they were good friends.
However, Nora meets Patch again, but he calls himself by his real name; Jev. Nora doesn't remember him and the name Jev is unfamiliar to her, but still she thinks there is something familiar about him as a person.
Later on Nora meets Scott, who has to introduce himself again when she doesn't remember him. And he tells Nora about fallen angels and all of the things Nora told him before her memory vanished. What I liked about this part was that Nora got to know Scott all over again, and she gets a fresh start with him. Even though he tells Nora of all the bad things he has done, Nora can forgive him.
Ever since Nora came back from the hospital she has had dreams and feelings of the colour black. She doesn't know what it is about the colour, but every now and then it pops up in her head and she sees a pair of black eyes in her mind. This part I found really interesting. Since Patch always dressed in black, had black eyes and black hair, she has feelings for the colour. And it isn't just that she sees the colour in her mind, but she can feel it, as if the colour was a person.
I don't know if I remember this correctly but I think there was a time when nora met Patch again (as Jev) and he let her see his memories and then she found out that he was Patch. But if I don't remember correctly at least in some way Nora found out that Jev was Patch.
And then Nora started to remember things from before she got kidnapped. Not entire events, but moments, images in her mind.
This part, too, is very realistic, it isn't like other people may would have written it. I think that many people would have made it so that she fell in love with Patch instantly again, but instead Nora just lets her feeling start over. She thinks that if she had loved him once, and had forgiven him for being with Marcie, then she could do it again. So she forgives him for that, and then her feeling just naturally starts to feel for Patch what she had felt before, as if they never stopped. It was as if the colour black had replaced Patch when he disappeared from her memory, so her feelings never really stopped, they just replaced Patch with the colour of him.
After Nora awoke at the hospital her mother told Nora that she is dating Hank Millar, the father of Nora's worst enemy at school, and Nora's biological father. And she always has this feeling around him that he is an evil man and that her mother should watch out. And of course that feeling comes from that it was Hank who kidnapped Nora.
And later on she finds out from Patch that it actually was Hank who kidnapped her, so she got her mixed feelings around Hank explained through that.
One time when Nora is at Patch's place, and her feelings for him has grown stronger than ever, he has to leave to go and spy on Hank talking to a captured archangel. And meanwhile Nora stays at his place but then gets a call from Scott. She immediately goes to his hiding place, but when she is finally there she and Scott gets captured by Hank's men. Then they drive Nora to Hank and he gets her to swear an oath that she will lead Hank's men and nephilim when he's dead, and then he turns her into a pure-blood nephilim (he does something where he exchanges her blood to nephilim blood).
And if you've read the book then you already know how it ends; Nora shoots Hank when he is about to burn one of Patch's feathers, and since the archangels has made a deal about making Hank mortal again, he dies.
I really liked the ending of the book, especially the part where they throw Hank's body into the ocean, and when Nora asks what will happen with him Patch says that his body will get eaten by sharks, instead of answering of what will happen to Hank's soul (No I'm not a psychopath, I just found that really funny since I hate Hank).
So yeah, I think that Becca Fitzpatrick is a very good author and I really got to know the characters well, and more and more in every book. And although the books has pretty serious plots Becca always adds a little humor. Almost everything Vee says is funny, and there are those moments between Patch and Nora that are just so romantic and funny. Kind of like the shark joke I wrote about above.
And now that Hank is dead Nora has to lead his "army" against the fallen angels, but Patch is a fallen angel so that's a problem, because she has to choose sides now; the nephilim or the fallen angels.
I'm really excited about the last book, however I am not going to read it now. I am going to read a book call "With Hitler to the End" by Heinz Linge, who was a man who was almost as close as you could get to Hitler. So since we're currently working with World War Two in school I thought I would read that book. And I happen to be really interested in history, especially World War Two, so that's also a reason I'm reading that book right now. But after that I will start to read Finale. And once again; I'm really excited for that book.
I hope you enjoyed this entry, Bye!
~ Filippa ~
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