Hush, Hush
Becca Fitzpatrick's Hush, Hush is the first book in her bestselling 2009 paranormal romance quartet, riding the wave of fallen angel YA that defined the late Twilight era. Nora Grey is a quiet, focused sixteen year old in coastal Maine, still grieving the violent murder of her father, when her biology teacher rearranges seating and lands her next to Patch Cipriano, a smirking transfer student with mismatched eyes and an unsettling habit of knowing things he should not know. Patch is, as the cover blurbs promise, a fallen angel, and his interest in Nora is initially anything but innocent. Fitzpatrick paces the novel as a romantic thriller, with Nora's increasingly frightening encounters laid against the slow pull of a forbidden attraction and a parallel mystery about who is stalking her around her sleepy New England town. The book's cinematic feathered angel cover became a defining image of the post Twilight YA boom, and the series went on to spawn three sequels and an enormous fan readership.
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Nora's new biology partner, Patch, is rude and beautiful and seems to know things he should not. The more she pries, the clearer it gets that he is not human, and that his interest in her has a history.
Becca Fitzpatrick's Hush, Hush series has four main books: Hush, Hush, Crescendo, Silence, and Finale. The series is complete.
Yes. Hush, Hush is YA paranormal romance, published in 2009 during the post-Twilight wave. There is no explicit content. Most readers rate the spice 1 out of 5.
Hush, Hush was written by Becca Fitzpatrick, published in 2010 by Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing.
Hush, Hush is 384 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Hush, Hush takes most readers 6 to 8 hours to finish.
Hush, Hush is a standalone novel by Becca Fitzpatrick, not part of a series.
Hush, Hush is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
