Hush, Hush (Saga Hush Hush 1) (Spanish Edition)

Tell us what you like, so we can send you books you'll love. Sign up and get a free eBook! Hush, Hush By Becca Fitzpatrick. Part of The Hush, Hush Saga. Hardcover eBook Unabridged Audio Download. Price may vary by retailer. Add to Cart Add to Cart. Mysteriously adhered to the chalkboard was a Barbie doll, with Ken at her side. Scribbled above their heads in thick pink chalk was the invitation: Coach McConaughy grabbed the whistle swinging from a chain around his neck and blew it.

And what is science? He walked over and jabbed his index finger on the table in front of me. I sounded like I was auditioning for the audiobook of our text. We all bit back laughter while Coach pointed a warning finger at the offender. I knew what she was thinking. That he had no idea how much we knew about each other.

Vee is my un-twin. But there is an invisible thread that ties us together; both of us swear that tie began long before birth. Both of us swear it will continue to hold for the rest of our lives. Coach looked out at the class. You picked the seats you did for a reason, right?

Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct. She is famous for that scowl. Apparently immune to it, Coach brought his whistle to his lips, and we got the idea. Those in the front row—yes, including you, Vee—move to the back. I bit my lip and waved a small farewell. Then I turned slightly, checking out the room behind me. I knew the names of all my classmates. Coach never called on him, and he seemed to prefer it that way. He sat slouched one table back, cool black eyes holding a steady gaze forward. My heart fumbled a beat and in that pause, a feeling of gloomy darkness seemed to slide like a shadow over me.

It vanished in an instant, but I was still staring at him. It was a smile that spelled trouble. I focused on the chalkboard. Barbie and Ken stared back with strangely cheerful smiles. Patch by anthiya8 I was once an archangel but now I have fallen. Can you blame me for falling in love with a human? Not all of us are skilled at possessing bodies to connect with the human world.

However, its not like me to admit my weaknesses.

When it came to love, I knew I could sacrifice anything and I will sacrifice everything. A side from all the romance and mission, the real reason as to why Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: Espero que les guste y comenten. T - English - Chapters: Tea88 reviews "To remind me of how eternal one small choice can be How did he create a new life? What did he leave behind? How did he evolve into the man that fell for Nora Grey? Credit for the dreamy characters go to Becca Fitzpatrick!

Beauty and the Beast Retold by AlwaysbBlack reviews He was a beast-reckless, emotionless and having a strong ambition to be a human, not a fallen angel. She was a beauty-full of liveliness and love. But she never imagined that he would enter into her life and wreak a havoc. Expect a mix of fluff, drama, and angst. There may be some "missing scenes" tossed in as well, for whenever I feel I need a little more NoraxPatch dynamic in my life. Please feel free to request scenes of make "missing scene" suggestions. I hope you enjoy! Encore by Emilia Blake reviews Patch and Nora are called upon by the archangels to find a very special hybrid child before someone else finds her before them.

Have they landed into the middle of a deadly plot to overthrow Heaven's archangels? With his easy smile and eyes that seem to see inside her, Patch draws Nora 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 seems 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 way more unsettling than anything Patch makes her feel. For she 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 Nora her life.

Hardcover , First Edition , pages. Coldwater, Maine United States. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Hush, Hush , please sign up. Rosie I looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooovvvvvvee allllllll of the Hush Hush books!!!! Do you know when the movie will be out?

And do you have a favorite scene in any of your 4 books?. Jade I copied and pasted this from a website and Your love and passion for this project are humbling! With that said, I have some movie news to share. Unfortunately it may not be the news you've been waiting to hear. I have decided that now is not the right time to move forward with the Hush, Hush movie and have not renewed the movie option with LD Entertainment.

I know many of you will be disappointed by this. But I hope that you trust me to make the right decision for Nora and Patch. Thanks again, Becca less. See all questions about Hush, Hush…. Lists with This Book. Oct 28, Misty rated it did not like it Shelves: Hush, Hush is the story of Nora Grey, an average high school student going about her business as usual -- until her Biology teacher rearranges the class seating and places her next to the dangerous-looking new kid, Patch Cipriano.

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Nora gets a weird feeling from Patch, and things just keep going from bad to worse as Nora becomes convinced that she is being stalked, and may even be the target of murderous intentions. Add to the list Nora's strange feelings about the Archangel ride at the amusement park and her constant near death experiences, and well, Nora's life is becoming anything but average. When I finished reading Hush, Hush , I had to mull it over for awhile. I really wasn't sure what to say. I am absolutely enthralled by the cover athletic looking, darkly mysterious fallen angel, contorted in mid-air in grayscale?

What's not to like? But I had a sneaking suspicion that a cover that good had to be masking something. Inside was the most confused, schizophrenic piece of writing I've read in some time. Becca Fitzpatrick didn't seem to know quite what she wanted, only that it had to be Ominous and Scary and Dangerous -- and Titillating, of course, and Mysterious and Sexy.

So with those buzz words in mind, she threw a bunch of things together and let her narrator, Nora, sort them out. Nora, understandably, had some trouble with this, and the result is a thoroughly frustrating heroine who jumps to insane conclusions based on inane evidence one moment, and the next goes blithely along into obvious danger. I wanted a little boundary-pushing and a not entirely likeable or trustworthy male lead who may or may not redeem himself, but who gives you the dangerous and alluring in spades.

For the most part, Patch wasn't a let-down in this regard, and as screwed up as it is to like him, he was the stand-out character for me. Not to say I didn't have issues with him, too. But it wasn't enough. Patch's bad boy antics couldn't save this book from itself. It was self-indulgent, cheesy, melodramatic in the worst sense, and confusing. I wanted to like it; I loved the fallen angel premise, the idea of an anti-hero, and bits and pieces of the writing throughout.

But Hush, Hush suffered from too many villains and too much shock and awe, and not enough thought and follow-through. But this was a monstrous let-down for me. See my guest post on Jo's blog about this. Vee was pretty consistent too, and was a lot of fun, but she started to get annoying and a little strange Damn you, James Porto and your beautiful, beautiful cover! You already know I had issues with this book.

I think a lot of people are going to take offense to the idea of Patch as the hero, as teen girls' fantasy, just as they did with Edward in Twilight. Patch goes beyond the simple term "bad boy" in that yes, he does actually mean Nora harm. I'm not going to go into that, because frankly, I don't care. He can be an anti-hero all he wants, whatever. If that's where the story's going, fine.

Most of my issues -- but not all -- lie with Nora. Nora is that girl you yell at in the horror movie, the idiot that goes up the stairs instead of out the door, or reaches to turn over the downed bad guy just to make sure. We all know that's frustrating, but we've come to expect it in movies, and that dumb big-breasted, scantily clad girl normally gets killed off.

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Nora is so much more frustrating than that. The many sides of Nora: She continually suspects Patch and Elliot, and just about everyone else in this story , and with good reason. However, she then continually ignores her instincts and puts herself in danger. In fact, she can't seem to agree with herself. She will think to herself that Patch is stalking her and trying to kill her, and then within pages think 'Oh, but he could never hurt me. Also throughout the story, Nora makes insane jumps in logic -- whether they turn out to be true or not, it's not believable when she immediately jumps to the most bizarre conclusions and then acts on them.

At the same time, she will be directly confronted with some piece of real evidence, something that would make a normal, non-fictional person take notice and say something's not right here -- and she will completely ignore it. It's like she's being willfully obtuse. Hearing your name and a few inane comments would make one think they are imagining things, and this I could buy.

Even Nora not being exactly sure what happened and being creeped out I could buy. But she proceeds to ask Patch how he's able to speak directly to her mind , making her look like a loon. I wouldn't be even all that bothered by this, if it was consistent throughout the story; if Nora either consistently thought that she was going crazy because of all the implausible things that are happening, I could buy it; if she wanted to prove she wasn't crazy and kept confronting Patch and sleuthing, I could buy it.

It would be 1 solid choice on Becca Fitzpatrick's part. She could be the ultra-paranoid girl who thinks she's going crazy and jumps to conclusions about everything. But to present this as if it's normal She thinks she's being stalked, she thinks her best friend has been kidnapped by a teenaged murderer named Elliot, and by this point she thinks she's the target of not one but two murderous angels, and yet all she can come up with is that she ran over two nails? If Nora will jump to conclusions on the barest of evidence, how in hell does she not comprehend the obvious?

Patch is Ominous, capital 'O', and yet And yet, no matter how much Nora thinks he's badbadbad, she trusts him. Weirdest of all, when Nora confronts Patch about his intentions, he admits he wanted to kill her ; her reaction? The whole story, you've suspected him and been insistent that you should stay away on the barest of evidence, but once he's confessed his albeit previous intentions of murder, you trust him. Her sudden bizarre trust of Patch comes too late for any real belief in their romance.

There is no consistency in Nora's thinking. I just can't understand why Becca Fitzpatrick couldn't pick one Nora to write and stick with her. She could have just always thought she was losing her mind; self-doubt would have been interesting, and made her root-forable. If she had just been reckless and always convinced that yes, maybe something is a little off about Patch, but she still found herself attracted to him, it would have been interesting, and could have been used to slowly reveal the truth and up Nora's anxiety.

If Nora had just been naive and always convinced that everything was fine despite any indicators, it would have built tension. But combining it all made Nora seem confused and a little off herself, and made the writing seem schizophrenic. Fitzpatrick makes the rookie mistake of lack of restraint.

Nora suspects everyone, and everyone does in fact seem to be a villain. This makes the book seem unfocused and sort of cheesy. When everyone is under suspicion, and everyone seems to be a bad guy, it makes it seem like no one really is. It's like if you use a really great word once or twice it's going to stand out. But if every word you use is some great, unusual word, none are going to stand out.

There's no negative space, no background to make the focal point pop. Everywhere Nora turns, someone's trying to kill her. It just gets silly after awhile. Also, it has the added negative effect of making it hard for Fitzpatrick to "top" as it were. Where does she go from here? If there are 4 different people trying to kill Nora in book 1, how many people will there be out for blood in book 2? She didn't leave any room to grow the suspense. Another bad thing about the amount of villains and Nora's instant suspicion and the overall over-the-top nature of the book was that there was precious little suspense.

By giving everything away rather freely, Fitzpatrick deprived the reader of the slow build-up and the privilege of the mystery; we never got to have any suspicions of our own, or choose sides. There was too much in the way of ominous overtones, and not enough restraint. It's one thing to be the wild and crazy girl in the best friends dynamic, but constantly trying to get your best friend alone with a guy who she says makes her uncomfortable, who she believes broke into her house and may be stalking her, and who she knows was a murder suspect is reckless beyond the pale, and shitty, shitty friendship.

I saw glimpses in Fitzpatrick's writing that demonstrated how this could have been a good book. She does sexual tension and confrontation scenes fairly well, and there is some good humor. Vee -- in the beginning, at least, before she becomes a really reckless, really bad friend -- was pretty amusing as the traditional sidekick.

Patch had great one-liners, both funny and smoldering. But for all the occasional good, there was quite a bit in the way of bad. The dialogue was often stilted and weird. The analogies were completely out of left field. They were those turns of phrase that you can tell were used because they sounded cool, or because one was needed, but they don't mean anything, or they leave you thinking wtf? What rules do eyes usually play by? Does he not blink? This is a mild example, but I got sick of making note of them.

I got this really hit-and-miss feel about the writing and the language in the book. Pieces of literary crap mixed in with the really good bits blended to form a "throw it all in and something's bound to work" style. A total lack of finesse made it hard to want to keep reading -- and made me feel like if I kept rolling my eyeballs, they were going to roll right out of my head. View all comments. Feb 09, Kat Kennedy rated it did not like it Shelves: Italicized text is the original publicized text from the book and is entirely the work of Becca Fitzpatrick.

This rendition is entirely satire. It is not meant to offend and I mean no discourtesy. I recognize that authors put a lot of time and work into their novels and I am not trying to disrespect that. I have no money. And I have a cat to feed as well. Also, pretty please with a cherry on top. Patch was quiet a moment.

I had to get close to you. You have to want it. You can see who I was, or you can see who I am now. And you top the list. Patch gave a barely-there smile. He glanced at the spot where we touched and then back up to my eyes. Respect them when I ask you to. Are you still with Elliot and Jules? Come play with us. Mar 04, Hannah rated it did not like it Shelves: About three things I was absolutely positive: First, that Hush, Hush was, without a doubt, one of the worst Twilight rip-offs I've ever had the misfortune to read. Second, there was a part of me -- and I didn't realize how dominant that part actually was -- that insisted on reading Hush, Hush to the bitter end in the hope it would redeem itself.

And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably wrong in that decision. Apr 22, Nataliya rated it did not like it Recommends it for: Not to sane human beings. Because it doesn't just cross the line into the uncomfortably creepy territory - it takes a cosmic leap over it. Hush, Hush may have the dubious distinction of being the worst book I've ever read. I assumed it's a book since that's what you'd call a bunch of printed and bound pages, but I'm really applying the term 'book' loosely here.

Yes, I know I'm not the intended audience, but should terribly written books that can only aspire to reach the same literary heights as the word-of-the-day toilet paper even HAVE a target audience??? Yes, I'm being harsh. But I'm also being honest. Let me give you a sample of my complaints all of them would be longer than the allowed review space. This book reads as though someone read Twilight , appreciated the obviously marketable and profitable premise, and decided to rewrite it in an "edgier" way - which boiled down to clumsily asking a question, "What did Twilight lack?

By the way, my future hypothetical daughter will not be allowed to take high school biology since that's where all potential supernatural creeps appear to lurk, looking for gullible teenage-girl prey. The boy acts like a total jerk to her, and his sleazy innuendos are alarming and appalling but not charming or witty or sexy. The natural things to do would be: Instead, Nora Grey decides to madly fall in love with the jerk. Dear YA authors, please stop perpetuating this idiocy. Patch is a fallen angel no spoilers, it was stated on page one or so with a dark past. But basically he is an entitled arrogant jerk who appears to take immense pleasure in publicly humiliating Nora, physically forcing himself on her, physically intimidating her, ignoring her wishes, and gloating in his dripping douchebaggery approach while nearly sexually assaulting her in front of the class.

The proper answer would be to scream, "YES! For some inexplicable reason, his appalling behavior is presented as alluring and seductive. For some inexplicable reason, he is presented as a "dark and dangerous" man of every girl's dream. Oh nevermind, here's the answer: He also had the tendency to wipe all logical thought from my mind. Mystery solved, my job here is done. I hate the message this book is sending. It's innocent, so stop torturing it. Unless you're paid for each ellipsis used. Your heart sounds unhealthy to me.

Reading it was a miserable experience. Sometimes I really wonder whether I'm reading the same book as everyone else. Apr 04, Marie rated it it was amazing Shelves: I also love Nora- She is such a refreshing and intriguing heroine. Her and Patch suit each other perfectly. They bounce off each other and really made me laugh with their witty and sarcy sense of humour! They bicker like hell and it's so much fun to read. I loved the twist in the end, it turned everything I thought was going to happen into something entirely different.

I never knew what was going to happen next. I thoroughly enjoyed and loved this book and I certainly cannot wait to read the next.! Well deserved 5 stars, well fricking deserved! Well, I learned that it was a lot of fun to write! Enjoy the fall, all! Dec 04, Megan rated it did not like it Shelves: And like all science, the best approach is to learn by sleuthing.

For the rest of the class, practice this technique by finding out as much as you can about your new seating assignment partner. Teaching kids how to get to know one another reflects the teaching of the science of human reproduction how???? Again, this is Bio! And even less to do with human reproduction. Those lab tables are filthy. Chemicals, dissections… kids are not allowed to sit on them, much less lay on them.

And, really unless you are checking orthostatic BP, there is really no need to lie down for five minutes before hand! All I can say is that Becca Fitzpatrick must have been homeschooled. Later, Nora approaches her Bio teacher about switching her seat away from Patch because he makes her feel uncomfortable.

The teacher not only ignores her plea, but enlists her to tutor Patch. More support for the homeschooled theory! Nora is driving home one night, and approaches a traffic light. Who stops at a yellow light to see if traffic is clear?? A rollercoaster called The Archangel. Do people at a park really give a crap about biblical lore? Since when do they sport fairly intricate and thoughtful artwork?

So, in addition to being a non-driving, homeschooled, amusement park avoider… Fitzpatrick is clearly unaware of laws protecting minors in this country. There are no further news stories regarding this matter. Nora has the police at her house for a call, and again to question her about an attack on a fellow student.

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They started near his kidneys, and ended at his shoulder blades, widening to form an upside down V. Fitzpatrick could have written that the gashes started at his shoulder blades, and extended to his kidneys as they widened to form an upside down V. Furthermore, the kidneys are pretty much right below the shoulder blades, not further out from them.

The final irrational aspect of hush, hush is Nora herself. No wonder people walk all over Nora and take advantage of her! But despite her fear, she never tells him NO. So I actually expect him to mess with her a little bit. But dumbass Nora actually allows him to manipulate her. Not that she deserves it although, really she does! She loses control of every conversation and interaction she participates in.

Had Nora grown or changed as a result of her experiences, I could have forgiven her. Or if Nora had suffered some severe consequences as a result of her stupidity, I could have forgiven Fitzpatrick. Even Bella Swan is more admirable. Jul 28, Kiki rated it did not like it Recommends it for: So the other night I was trying to force myself to finish writing a chapter, but I was on the verge of headdesking at about I read some nice fluffy paranormal crap, sung myself into a subconscious lull, and then eventually fell into deep, drooling sleep.

This is a dream story. Now, I rarely remember my dreams. But last night's was so freaking pungent that I can reel it all off right now without missing any details. Also, bear in mind So the other night I was trying to force myself to finish writing a chapter, but I was on the verge of headdesking at about Also, bear in mind that absolutely everything I'm about to tell you is one hundred per cent true. I never lie on Goodreads, because telling the truth is just so much more fun.

So it starts off with me in some kind of medieval town. I'm blonde, which is a change. The "camera angle" is third person, but I know that's me in the blue dress. For some reason, it occurs to me that my name is Bess, and for some reason I'm carrying a weapon, like a knife. I don't actually see the knife; I'm just aware of it. So I step up in front of this shop, and suddenly the place looks more wild west. Some guy goes to attack me, but I totally ninja him and then leap down off the verandah, into a waiting crowd. They all part and then the guy I supposedly killed stands up again and yells, "You're a Pagan!

These children [points to a group of forlorn children in front of me, all wearing blue] will get you! There are more over there, in that crowd! The viewpoint's in full first person now. The atmosphere is sort of chalky and dark, something like Sleepy Hollow , and I'm running and running, but it's dream running, so I'm not really getting anywhere. You know dream running; you need to move, and there's something really fucking horrible chasing you, but for the life of you you can't make your legs move any faster than they would if they were coated in tar.

My name is Samhain! I keep trying to run, and when I look behind me, I see a fork in the road, and men in American civil war uniforms on horses, parting down the fork in the road. I keep trying to dream run, but it's pretty fucking useless, because one of the guys catches up. I dart off the road, into a fir tree, but I'm terrible at hiding and I get caught.

The guy yells, "Samhain! He has the creepiest expression on his face, I'm flinching, because I think I'm going to get hit, but somehow I don't. A second later I'm back in some town square, and I'm wearing a bright orange bonnet that's too tight. It's made of thick, glossy paper, and it crosses my mind to be careful that the edge of it doesn't slit my throat.

Why am I so paranoid? I'm not restrained, but I don't make a run for it. But it's this really loud Joker laugh, except ten times crazier, and my voice is all masculine. I'm cackling, basically, as they lead me to this huge sandstone building that looks like the Volturi clock tower from the New Moon movie yeah, I saw it. I'm still screaming with manic laughter as they take me down all these torchlit flights of stairs and I start getting pretty fucking scared, because I see all these shadows flitting around and little wispy lights and shit, and then I get locked in this cell, and we're back to medieval times with this one.

I bang on the door, yelling in a girly voice again, apparently trying to laugh it off as I say, "Come on, man! This is like false imprisonment! When he hits the bottom step, he's miraculously changed into a woman with long, braided hair, and this crazy look of astonishment. Yeah, the shadows and creepy things are back, and I'm pretty fucking freaked out by the time I reach this polished ballroom, that looks like it has laminate flooring, and big windows.

I walk past it, up a flight of stairs that look like the moving staircases in the Harry Potter movies, and on to this loft area that has windows that look on to a huge abyss with floating platforms hanging over it. The windows have blue velvet curtains, and no glass. Ever been to the Wallace Monument?

That's what the windows are like.

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Except at the Wallace Monument, they don't have curtains. To my left are two people sitting on a bench. There's a smirking woman wearing modern clothes and a big leather handbag, and a man, but he's blurry. The woman stands up and stalks past me, and the man stays where he is. One is this really, really pale little girl, with a chubby kind of face and scraped back white hair, and the other is an older woman who reminds me of Vittoria from Angels and Demons.

I walk up to them and suddenly the curtain starts moving by itself, and it gets pulled out into the abyss by what I can only imagine is some kind of ghost, and then pale girl starts shrieking and her fingers go like claws and she clamps her hand over Vittoria-look-a-like's face. Vittoria screams silently, and then I approach, and the man says something, and the girl slumps forward, pouting her lips and crying a little.

Vittoria seems suddenly fine, and we all crouch over the pale girl, trying to make her feel better. Then I wake up. I'm actually humming it.

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Look, you can't make that shit up. And that statement is why Becca Fitzpatrick fascinates me: It hardly takes a YA aficionado to notice the glaringly obvious Twilight catch-and-releases. But look at my dream, then look at Hush, Hush. Okay, so my name was Samhain. Beck's hero's name is Patch.

So I got locked in a tower, presumably for being a Pagan. Nora goes all Cagney-and-Lacey, and goes undercover to stalk her tormenter at his workplace. Her costume was in a 7-Eleven bag, for fuck's sake! This stuff is totally pumped up, man! How much weed did Becks smoke before she wrote this shit? Look, pretty much everything that needs to be said about Nora already has been. My flash-in-the-pan Bess was more badass than her, and she had a bunch of children watching her back. Nora is so fucking stupid, I'm surprised she's even been allowed to live. I'm amazed her mother hasn't already taken a chainsaw to her.

She's that frakkin' dense. I've been hard-pressed to find a protagonist that's as completely insufferable as her, and I've read Halo. What does that say? It says that I have a pretty high shit threshold, and yet Hush, Hush managed to piss me off enough to warrant this review. Now, on to my next slab of beef: Not too long ago, my sister and I were exiting the supermarket, when some old dude reached out and slapped her ass. I screamed a bunch of swear words at him I was about fourteen at the time and hauled her away.

She felt violated, and I was so angry I thought my jugular was going to pop. Now, Patch is exactly the kind of guy who would do that. He'd pinch your ass when you weren't looking. He'd rub himself up against you on the subway. He'd bang you up against your own kitchen cabinets and dry-hump you when you barely knew him, and had already said no. He'd pin you down on a bed, tell you he wants nothing more than to kill you, then kiss you.

Patch is a chauvinistic prick. He has absolutely no loving feelings for the protagonist; he simply wants to bone her. Patch is not "in the making". He is a rapist, and though you've probably already read this post through a hundreds of links to it all over Goodreads, I'm going to relink it here just to catch the stragglers who didn't give it a glance. Look, it's all been said. But this is YA rape culture at it's very worst. This is dressing up sexual harassment as love, then shoving it down the throats of young teens.

A dangerous game, no? Is simply putting up with sexual harassment in the classroom really something we want to teach today's teen population? What begins in the classroom moves to the workplace, leisure time and eventually, more frighteningly, the home.



Patch and Nora's relationship is built around her being terrifed of him, while he fantasizes about killing her. On every level, this relationship is heinously unhealthy and extremely dangerous, and nothing anyone should ever aspire to. I see polls all over Goodreads where Patch is rated as the best hero, hottest love interest, best angel. Are you fucking serious? It is sexual harrassment and intimidation, sexual objectification, powerful misogyny and a clear prelude to rape.

Forget all those things, because it's as simple as this: Don't EVER put up with behaviour like this. Don't come here and try to convince me that Patch is perfect, a sexy bad boy, because I don't want to fucking hear it. I'm not interested in whatever praise anyone has for this horrifying rape fantasy. Whenever I open this book and try desperately to see what everyone finds sexy, all I can think about is the man who grabbed at my sister, or the man who tried to dry-hump me at a concert while the people with him laughed, or the men who hang out of their car windows and honk at me when I'm walking down the street, panting about my body.

Women, do you think this is the way you deserve to be treated? I sincerely hope not. Also, Fitzpatz, did you ever go to high school? Did you ever set foot in a classroom? How could you possibly, when you portray a biology class as discussing what they look for in a "mate".

Biology class isn't for talking about makes us horny. And it sickens me that throughout this lesson, Nora is visibly uncomfortable as Patch talks about her body, humiliates her and puts her on the spot in front of everyone, and the surrounding class and teacher simply laugh at her. Nora then asks the teacher to relocate her because she is uncomfortable with Patch, but this has the opposite effect: She gives in, because why wouldn't she?

Women being persistent is practically synonymous in our society with "whiny". I read this book three years ago, and I am still completely and utterly disgusted by it. It's appalling in absolutely every way. I could go into Vee, but frankly I'd rather poke needles through my tongue than spend any time evaluating this piece of walking, agreeing cardboard being passed off as a character. Of course, being fat, Vee is the butt of all jokes, and Nora is constantly commenting on her weight as if that's the only thing worth knowing about this girl who is supposed to be Nora's best friend, but is in fact an enabler who enjoys watching Patch treat Nora like shit.

She literally encourages Nora to go after Patch, even after Nora tells her that she's uncomfortable around him and she doesn't enjoy his company. What did I say before? That's Vee's dialogue in a nutshell.