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Review: Silence by Becca Fitzpatrick

Goodreads description:
WHEN SILENCE IS ALL THAT'S LEFT, CAN THE TRUTH FINALLY BE HEARD?

Nora Grey can't remember the past five month 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.

Silence is definitely the best in this series thus far. I couldn’t put it down at all!

The amnesia Nora went through was one of the things that kept me hooked. It was fun knowing stuff she didn’t, yet the author made it so we the readers were also missing important information. Kept me on my toes.

Ahhh Patch. I still don’t know if I can trust him. Fallen angel = bad. But argh!! He’s just so dang hot and says all the right things. Grrrr. I really hope he doesn’t end up to be the biggest jerk in the history of YA. (Nahhh, Erik from House of Night already has that covered.)

There is a bit of a love triangle in this. Well, I wouldn’t necessarily say “love triangle”. Another guy is trying to get Nora’s attention but she just wants Patch and that probably will never change. And no matter how much I love Patch, I kind of want Nora to be with the other guy. I feel like I can trust him more, despite his role in book #2.

Nora… her character is growing. I really like this fact. I mentioned in my review of Crescendo how weak of a character she is. Not this time around. I’m guessing getting kidnapped and not remembering one minute of it makes you grow a backbone.

I was re-reading my review of Hush, Hush from about a year ago. I said something along the lines of “I think their story is over…” now I’m just like What? O_o NOFREAKINGWAYISTHEIRSTORYOVER. It just gets more complicated with each book.

I Need. The. Next. Book. Now.

Obviously I loved this book. I think you will too, if you love paranormal romance. Give it a try (:

Review: Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick

Goodreads description:
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 arch-enemy, 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 feeling that he's 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 really want to write this review, because as a whole, this book was really amazing. But picking it apart and analyzing it, I realize that it could have been better.

Originality: The concept of fallen angels and Nephilim isn’t new. Teenage relationship problems are not new. The way they were put together was new, sure. The originality has to be a no from me.

Characters: Ughh Nora is probably the weakest character I’ve read about. All she does is put up with others’ crap and caves into peer pressure all the time. I mean, her best friend? I wouldn’t even consider her a best friend. Constantly she is wanting Nora to go out with her and when Nora says no, Vee keeps pushing it. I’m just like “She said no. Stop it.” And then there are the guys. Hot guys? Yes. But these aren’t guys to be going around falling in love with.

Content: Like I said, fallen angels and Nephilim aren’t new. However, I love reading about them. Especially when the author can write about angels in a way that doesn’t bring religion into the mix. I really enjoyed the content in this one.

Setting: Coldwater, Maine. This is the perfect scenery for this story. It gives the mood a sense of coldness and gloom, what with all the fog. I couldn’t have picked a better location to set this in.

Overall enjoyment: I actually did really like this book. Of course, I’m going to read the rest of the series. What’s keeping me holding on to the story is the suspense, the surprise at the end of each book when we find out who the real bad guy is. At the end of Crescendo, I was shocked to see who the bad guy was. Honestly, it was the person I least expected it to be.

So, yeah, I would most absolutely recommend this to those who love paranormal romance.

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